First part of Clausius heat theorem in terms of Noether's theorem
arXiv:2408.15773 · doi:10.2140/memocs.2025.13.1
Abstract
After Helmholtz, the mechanical foundation of thermodynamics included the First Law , and the first part of the Clausius heat theorem . The resulting invariance of the entropy for quasistatic changes in thermally isolated systems invites a connection with Noether's theorem (only established later). In this quest, we continue an idea, first brought up by Wald in black hole thermodynamics and by Sasa in various contexts. We follow both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian frameworks, and emphasize the role of Killing equations for deriving a First Law for thermodynamically consistent trajectories, to end up with an expression of ``heat over temperature'' as an exact differential of a Noether charge.
arXiv comment28 pages
References in corpus (26)
- Black Hole Entropy is Noether Charge
- Some Properties of Noether Charge and a Proposal for Dynamical Black Hole Entropy
- Dual electromagnetism: Helicity, spin, momentum, and angular momentum
- Nonequilibrium and irreversibility
- Steady State Thermodynamics for Heat Conduction -- Microscopic Derivation
- Clausius inequality and optimality of quasi static transformations for nonequilibrium stationary states
- Noether's Theorem in Statistical Mechanics
- Entropy and Nonlinear Nonequilibrium Thermodynamic Relation for Heat Conducting Steady States
- Derivation of Boltzmann Principle
- Thermodynamic entropy as a Noether invariant
- Thermodynamic transformations of nonequilibrium states
- Why Noether's Theorem applies to Statistical Mechanics
- Revisiting the Glansdorff-Prigogine criterion for stability within irreversible thermodynamics
- Noether-Constrained Correlations in Equilibrium Liquids
- An entropy current in superspace
- Force balance in thermal quantum many-body systems from Noether's theorem
- Variance of fluctuations from Noether invariance
- Gauge Invariance of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
- Extended Clausius Relation and Entropy for Nonequilibrium Steady States in Heat Conducting Quantum Systems
- An Inflow Mechanism for Hydrodynamic Entropy
- Thermodynamical path integral and emergent symmetry
- Hyperforce balance via thermal Noether invariance of any observable
- Noether invariance theory for the equilibrium force structure of soft matter
- From dynamical systems to statistical mechanics: the case of the fluctuation theorem
- Thermodynamic entropy as a Noether invariant in a Langevin equation
- Optical helicity and Hertz vectors