Reversibility and entropy production of inhomogeneous Markov chains

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1028-1043

  Ge, Hao ^a   Jiang, Da Quan ^a   Qian, Min ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brownian motor; Inhomogeneous Markov chain; Instantaneous entropy production; Instantaneous reversibility; Rotation number

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947219837     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1165505205     Document Type: Article

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