Curie's principle

Curie's principle, or Curie's symmetry principle, is a maxim about cause and effect formulated by Pierre Curie in 1894:

the symmetries of the causes are to be found in the effects.

The idea was based on the ideas of Franz Ernst Neumann and Bernhard Minnigerode. Thus, it is sometimes known as the Neumann–Minnigerode–Curie principle.

Later physicists have interpreted Curie's principle in the context of thermodynamics. Dynamics close to equilibrium are described by a set of transport coefficients whose symmetries must match the symmetries of the system, according to Curie's principle.

References

  1. ↑ Curie, P. (1894). "Sur la symétrie dans les phénomènes physiques, symétrie d'un champ électrique et d'un champ magnétique" [On the symmetries of physical phenomenae, the electric field, and the magnetic field]. Journal de Physique Théorique et Appliquée (in French). 3 (1). EDP Sciences: 393–415. doi:10.1051/jphystap:018940030039300. ISSN 0368-3893.
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  6. ↑ de Groot, S. R.; Mazur, P. (2013). Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics. Dover Publications. p. 31. ISBN 9780486153506.