• 文献标题:   About the Definition of the Local Equilibrium Lattice Temperature in Suspended Monolayer Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   COCO M, MASCALI G, ROMANO V
  • 作者关键词:   local equilibrium temperature, electronphonon transport, graphene, macroscopic model, maximum entropy principle
  • 出版物名称:   ENTROPY
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  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.3390/e23070873
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

The definition of temperature in non-equilibrium situations is among the most controversial questions in thermodynamics and statistical physics. In this paper, by considering two numerical experiments simulating charge and phonon transport in graphene, two different definitions of local lattice temperature are investigated: one based on the properties of the phonon-phonon collision operator, and the other based on energy Lagrange multipliers. The results indicate that the first one can be interpreted as a measure of how fast the system is trying to approach the local equilibrium, while the second one as the local equilibrium lattice temperature. We also provide the explicit expression of the macroscopic entropy density for the system of phonons, by which we theoretically explain the approach of the system toward equilibrium and characterize the nature of the equilibria, in the spatially homogeneous case.