Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2003-11-07
J. Phys. A 37 (2004), 4303-4320
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
LaTeX, 23 pages, 3 EPS figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0305-4470/37/15/001
It was recently suggested by Blythe and Evans that a properly defined steady state normalisation factor can be seen as a partition function of a fictitious statistical ensemble in which the transition rates of the stochastic process play the role of fugacities. In analogy with the Lee-Yang description of phase transition of equilibrium systems, they studied the zeroes in the complex plane of the normalisation factor in order to find phase transitions in nonequilibrium steady states. We show that like for equilibrium systems, the ``densities'' associated to the rates are non-decreasing functions of the rates and therefore one can obtain the location and nature of phase transitions directly from the analytical properties of the ``densities''. We illustrate this phenomenon for the asymmetric exclusion process. We actually show that its normalisation factor coincides with an equilibrium partition function of a walk model in which the ``densities'' have a simple physical interpretation.
Brak Richard
de Gier Jan
Rittenberg Vladimir
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