Published March 11, 2010 | Version v1
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Relaxation Processes and the Maximum Entropy Production Principle

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Spontaneous transitions of an isolated system from one macroscopic state to
another (relaxation processes) are accompanied by a change of entropy. Following Jaynes’
MaxEnt formalism, it is shown that practically all the possible microscopic developments
of a system, within a fixed time interval, are accompanied by the maximum possible
entropy change. In other words, relaxation processes are accompanied by maximum entropy
production.

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