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Spontaneous Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Entropy Production in a Closed System
| Content Provider | MDPI |
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| Author | Kondepudi, Dilip Mundy, Zachary |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | In this short article, we present a study of theoretical model of a photochemically driven, closed chemical system in which spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking occurs. By making all the steps in the reaction elementary reaction steps, we obtained the rate of entropy production in the system and studied its behavior below and above the transition point. Our results show that the transition is similar to a second-order phase transition with rate of entropy production taking the place of entropy and the radiation intensity taking the place of the critical parameter: the steady-state entropy production, when plotted against the incident radiation intensity, has a change in its slope at the critical point. Above the critical intensity, the slope decreases, showing that asymmetric states have lower entropy than the symmetric state. |
| Starting Page | 769 |
| e-ISSN | 20738994 |
| DOI | 10.3390/sym12050769 |
| Journal | Symmetry |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Volume Number | 12 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2020-05-06 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Symmetry Atomic, Molecular and Chemical Physics Chiral Symmetry Breaking Entropy Production Closed Systems Nonequilibrium Dissipative Structures |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
