Detailed balance

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Detailed balance (or the principle of microscopic reversibility) expresses the notion that at equilibrium, there are as many processes destroying situation and creating situation as there are processes destroying situation and creating situation (Ref 1 Appendix VII).

References

  1. D. Ter Haar "Foundations of Statistical Mechanics", Reviews of Modern Physics 27 pp. 289 - 338 (1955)
  2. Gilbert N. Lewis "A New Principle of Equilibrium", PNAS 11 pp. 179-183 (1925)
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