The maximum entropy rate description of a thermodynamic system in a stationary non-equilibrium state

Entropy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 675-687

  Favretti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asymptotic equipartition property; Entropy production; Entropy rate; Information divergence; Markov chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953519412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e11040675     Document Type: Article

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