Chandrasekaran, Aravind; Jain, Sudhir R. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012) 14, pp. 3702-3707
We study the entropy of an N-site Kac ring in a non-equilibrium state. As the system dynamically evolves towards equilibrium and eventually to the initial state exhibiting Poincaré recurrence, we see that the entropy saturates over a period of time which is large for large N. At about the time...