title: Generalized relation between relative entropy and dissipation for nonequilibrium systems.
abstract: Recently, Kawai, Parrondo, and Van den Broeck [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 080602 (2007)] have related dissipation to time-reversal asymmetry. We generalized the result by considering a protocol where the physical system is driven away from an initial thermal equilibrium state with temperature β0 to a final thermal equilibrium state at a different temperature. We illustrate the result using a model with an exact solution, i.e., a particle in a moving one-dimensional harmonic well.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran.
authors.forename: Pegah
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zolfaghari
authors.forename: Somayeh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zare
authors.forename: Behrouz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mirza