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Altaner, Bernhard, Vollmer, Jürgen, Grosskinsky, Stefan, Katthän, Lukas, Timme, Marc and Herminghaus, S. (Stephan) (2011) Flux cycles as building blocks of non-equilibrium steady states. Europhysics Letters . ISSN 0295-5075.
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Abstract
Detailed balance and the resulting constraints on equilibrium steady states constitute
corner stones of statistical physics. No principles of comparable significance are known for non-
equilibrium steady states. Here we introduce a representation of non-equilibrium steady-states
(that violate detailed balance) in terms of cycle
fluxes. We show that on the new space where the
states are the original
flux cycles, there is a natural dynamics that satisfies detailed balance. The
non-equilibrium steady-state occupation numbers of cycles hence follow a Boltzmann distribution,
and expectation values of arbitrary observables for the stochastic systems can be expressed as
cycle averages, resembling the representation of expectation values in dynamical systems by cycle
expansions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Mathematics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Europhysics Letters | ||||
Publisher: | EDP Sciences | ||||
ISSN: | 0295-5075 | ||||
Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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Status: | Peer Reviewed |
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