Rules for transition rates in nonequilibrium steady states

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20 February 2004

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0402527

Abstract

Just as transition rates in a canonical ensemble must respect the principle of detailed balance, constraints exist on transition rates in driven steady states. I derive those constraints, by maximum information-entropy inference, and apply them to the steady states of driven diffusion and a sheared lattice fluid. The resulting ensemble can potentially explain nonequilibrium phase behaviour and, for steady shear, gives rise to stress-mediated long-range interactions.

Keywords

STATES JUST AS TRANSITION
NONEQUILIBRIUM STEADY
TRANSITION RATES
STEADY STATES
CONSTRAINTS
DIFFUSION
ENSEMBLE

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Version 1, 2004-02-20, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 92 (15), 150601.

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