Nonintegral form of the reciprocal relation associated with violation of the fluctuation response relation
Kotaro Kasuga1, Akira Yoshimori1
1Department of Physics, Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.
Abstract:
We extend Onsager's reciprocal relation to systems in a nonequilibrium steady state. While Onsager's reciprocal relation concerns the kinetic (Onsager) coefficient, the extended reciprocal relation concerns violation of the fluctuation response relation (FRR) for mechanical and thermal perturbations. This extended relation holds at each frequency when the extent of the FRR violation is expressed in a frequency domain. This nonintegral form distinguishes the extended relation from previous relations expressed by integration over a frequency. To obtain this relation, we consider one-particle one-dimensional systems described by an overdamped Langevin equation with a force driving the system away from equilibrium. We assume a special property of the potential in the system. From this Langevin equation, we obtain the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation describing the time evolution of the distribution function of the particle. Using the FP equation, we calculate the responses of the particle velocity and heat current by applying time-dependent perturbations of the driving force and temperature. We express the extent of the FRR violation in terms of these responses with time correlation functions and expand them in powers of the FP operator. This reciprocal relation is valid far from equilibrium. One can also confirm this reciprocal relation through experiments with systems such as colloidal suspensions because the FRR violation can be experimentally observed.
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