Information-geometric structure for chemical thermodynamics: An explicit construction of dual affine coordinates
arXiv:2112.13813 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.106.044131
Abstract
We construct an information-geometric structure for chemical thermodynamics, applicable to a wide range of chemical reaction systems including non-ideal and open systems. For this purpose, we explicitly construct dual affine coordinate systems, which completely designate an information-geometric structure, using the extent of reactions and the affinities of reactions as coordinates on a linearly-constrained space of amounts of substances. The resulting structure induces a metric and a divergence (a function of two distributions of amounts), both expressed with chemical potentials. These quantities have been partially known for ideal-dilute solutions, but their extensions for non-ideal solutions and the complete underlying structure are novel. The constructed geometry is a generalization of dual affine coordinates for stochastic thermodynamics. For example, the metric and the divergence are generalizations of the Fisher information and the Kullback-Leibler divergence. As an application, we identify the chemical-thermodynamic analog of the Hatano-Sasa excess entropy production using our divergence.
24 pages, 13 figures
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