Thermodynamics and Geometry of Reversible and Irreversible Markov Processes

Hao Ge, Woo H. Kim, Hong Qian

Master equation with microscopic reversibility ($q_{ij}\ne 0$ iff $q_{ji}\ne 0$) has a {\em thermodynamic superstructure} in terms of two state functions $S$, entropy, and $F$, f…