Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Thermodynamics
- 2 Statistical Mechanics
- 3 Hydrodynamics
- 4 Stochastic Processes
- 5 Fluctuation Relations for Energy and Particle Fluxes
- 6 Path Probabilities, Temporal Disorder, and Irreversibility
- 7 Driven Brownian Particles and Related Systems
- 8 Effusion Processes
- 9 Processes in Dilute and Rarefied Gases
- 10 Fluctuating Chemohydrodynamics
- 11 Reactions
- 12 Active Processes
- 13 Transport in Hamiltonian Dynamical Models
- 14 Quantum Statistical Mechanics
- 15 Transport in Open Quantum Systems
- Appendix A Complements on Thermodynamics
- Appendix B Complements on Dynamical Systems Theory
- Appendix C Complements on Statistical Mechanics
- Appendix D Complements on Hydrodynamics
- Appendix E Complements on Stochastic Processes
- Appendix F Complements on Fluctuation Relations
- References
- Index
11 - Reactions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Thermodynamics
- 2 Statistical Mechanics
- 3 Hydrodynamics
- 4 Stochastic Processes
- 5 Fluctuation Relations for Energy and Particle Fluxes
- 6 Path Probabilities, Temporal Disorder, and Irreversibility
- 7 Driven Brownian Particles and Related Systems
- 8 Effusion Processes
- 9 Processes in Dilute and Rarefied Gases
- 10 Fluctuating Chemohydrodynamics
- 11 Reactions
- 12 Active Processes
- 13 Transport in Hamiltonian Dynamical Models
- 14 Quantum Statistical Mechanics
- 15 Transport in Open Quantum Systems
- Appendix A Complements on Thermodynamics
- Appendix B Complements on Dynamical Systems Theory
- Appendix C Complements on Statistical Mechanics
- Appendix D Complements on Hydrodynamics
- Appendix E Complements on Stochastic Processes
- Appendix F Complements on Fluctuation Relations
- References
- Index
Summary
At the mesoscale, reaction networks are described in terms of stochastic processes. In well-stirred solutions, the time evolution is ruled by the chemical master equation for the probability distribution of the random numbers of molecules. The entropy production is obtained for these reactive processes in the framework of stochastic thermodynamics. The entropy production can be decomposed using the Hill–Schnakenberg cycle decomposition in terms of the affinities and the reaction rates of the stoichiometric cycles of the reaction network. The multivariate fluctuation relation is established for the reactive currents. The results are applied to several examples of reaction networks, in particular, describing autocatalytic bistability, noisy chemical clocks, enzymatic kinetics, and copolymerization processes.
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- The Statistical Mechanics of Irreversible Phenomena , pp. 398 - 437Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022