Representation of Nonequilibrium Steady States in Large Mechanical Systems

Representation of nonequilibrium steady states in large mechanical systems

Recently a novel concise representation of the probability distribution of heat conducting nonequilibrium steady states was derived. The representation is valid to the second order in the “degree of nonequilibrium”, and has a very suggestive form where the effective Hamiltonian is determined by the excess entropy production. Here we extend the representation to a wide class of nonequilibrium st...

Nonequilibrium steady states

This paper contains rigorous results on nonequilibrium steady states for a class of particle systems coupled to unequal heat baths. These stochastic models are derived from the mechanical chains studied by Eckmann and Young by randomizing certain quantities while retaining other features of the model. Our results include the existence and uniqueness of nonequilibrium steady states, their relati...

Correlations in Nonequilibrium Steady States

We present the results of a detailed study of energy correlations at steady state for a 1-D model of coupled energy and matter transport. Our aim is to discover — via theoretical arguments, conjectures, and numerical simulations — how spatial covariances scale with system size, their relations to local thermodynamic quantities, and the randomizing effects of heat baths. Among our findings are t...

Nonequilibrium steady states for interacting open systems: Exact results

Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem in Nonequilibrium Steady States

In equilibrium, the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT) expresses the response of an observable to a small perturbation by a correlation function of this variable with another one that is conjugate to the perturbation with respect to energy. For a nonequilibrium steady state (NESS), the corresponding FDT is shown to involve in the correlation function a variable that is conjugate with respect...