Curie's principle, or Curie's symmetry principle, is a maxim about cause and effect formulated by Pierre Curie in 1894:[1] the symmetries of the causes are to be found in the effects.
[2][3][4]The idea was based on the ideas of Franz Ernst Neumann and Bernhard Minnigerode.
[5] Later physicists have interpreted Curie's principle in the context of thermodynamics.
Dynamics close to equilbrium are described by a set of transport coefficients whose symmetries must match the symmetries of the system, according to Curie's principle.
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