title: Dissipative electromagnetism from a nonequilibrium thermodynamics perspective.
abstract: Dissipative effects in electromagnetism on macroscopic scales are examined by coarse-graining the microscopic Maxwell equations with respect to time. We illustrate a procedure to derive the dissipative effects on the macroscopic scale by using a Green-Kubo type expression in terms of the microscopic fluctuations and the correlations between them. The resulting macroscopic Maxwell equations are formulated within the general equation for the nonequilibrium reversible-irreversible coupling (GENERIC) framework, accounting also for inhomogeneous temperature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials, Institute of Polymers, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Asja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jelić
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hütter
authors.forename: Hans Christian
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Ottinger