Thermodynamics of the General Diffusion Process: Time-Reversibility and Entropy Production

We introduce an axiomatic thermodynamic theory for the general diffusion process and prove a theorem concerning entropy and irreversibility: the equivalence among time-reversibility, zero entropy production, symmetricity of the stationary diffusion process, and a potential condition.

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