Emergent Spinorial Structure in Mesoscopic Irreversible Thermodynamics
cond-mat.mes-hall
Submitted: 2026-10-12
Updated: 2026-10-18
Comments: 14 pages, 1 figure
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We reconstruct a geometry of thermodynamic coordinates from transport coefficients within a mesoscopic canonical model.
Abstract
We reconstruct a geometry of thermodynamic coordinates from transport coefficients within a mesoscopic canonical model. Self-adjoint flux observables determine a compatible evolution generator containing symmetric and antisymmetric transport coefficients. When the Hermitian transport tensor is positive, an exact graded first-order factorization reproduces this generator on its scalar sector. Its commutators define a spectral distance whose metric depends only on the symmetric tensor. Gradients of the antisymmetric tensor can change the evolution while leaving the metric unchanged. The construction allows coordinate-dependent coefficients. In the constant Onsager regime, a Clifford representation gives the same distance and an algebra fixed by the transport matrix. Published transport data for a Bi 2Te 3 film give a principal-distance ratio of approximately 2.12 in normalized coordinates at ZT 0.68. We also examine a separate quadratic entropy-production observable and distinguish its discrete spectrum from the spectrum of the evolution generator. The spinorial representation adds no physical spin degrees of freedom.
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