Reciprocal Relations in Irreversible Processes. I.

Onsager, L. (1931). Reciprocal Relations in Irreversible Processes. I. Physical Review, 37, 405-426.

Type

Journal article

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Primary research

Year

1931

DOI

10.1103/physrev.37.405

Link

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.37.405

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physics

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Primes

• Damping
  • Structural tension: Damping dissipates energy, driving the Second Law of thermodynamics

    This sourceEstablishes the Onsager reciprocal relations linking irreversible fluxes to forces, founding non-equilibrium thermodynamics and connecting dissipation to entropy production.

• Detailed balance
  • This boundary prevents a historical association among reciprocity, time reversal, and equilibrium from turning into an incorrect synonymy.
• Diffusion
  • Onsager's

    This sourceDerives, from microscopic reversibility, reciprocal relations linking fluxes to thermodynamic forces in coupled irreversible processes (heat conduction, diffusion, electrokinetics).

• Entropy (Thermodynamic Sense)
  • as the information-theoretic analog, Landauer bound linking information erasure to entropy production); in non-equilibrium systems (entropy production rate via Onsager relations

    This sourceEstablishes the Onsager reciprocal relations for near-equilibrium (linear-response) transport, linking fluxes to thermodynamic forces.

• Equilibrium
  • . Engineering and control Set-point regulation in control systems; PID controllers driving outputs toward a desired equilibrium. Near-equilibrium reciprocal relations

    This sourceDerives, from microscopic reversibility, the symmetry of the matrix of linear transport coefficients near equilibrium (L_αβ = L_βα), founding linear non-equilibrium thermodynamics (Nobel Prize, 1968).

• Irreversibility
  • Near-equilibrium irreversible processes are quantified via Onsager's reciprocal relations

    This sourceEstablishes near-equilibrium response theory (linear response, fluctuation-dissipation) and shows how systems near equilibrium satisfy kinetic relations linking fluxes to forces; extends thermodynamic thinking to weakly non-equilibrium regimes by linearizing around equilibrium.

• Thermodynamic Equilibrium
  • Non-equilibrium thermodynamics (Onsager, Prigogine)

    This sourceEstablishes near-equilibrium response theory (linear response, fluctuation-dissipation) and shows how systems near equilibrium satisfy kinetic relations linking fluxes to forces; extends thermodynamic thinking to weakly non-equilibrium regimes by linearizing around equilibrium.

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