Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2005-09-09
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 75 No. 5, May, 2006, 054001
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
9 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1143/JPSJ.75.054001
We have performed numerical simulations on a pure electron plasma system under a strong magnetic field, in order to examine quasi-stationary states that the system eventually evolves into. We use ring states as the initial states, changing the width, and find that the system evolves into a vortex crystal state from a thinner-ring state while a state with a single-peaked density distribution is obtained from a thicker-ring initial state. For those quasi-stationary states, density distribution and macroscopic observables are defined on the basis of a coarse-grained density field. We compare our results with experiments and some statistical theories, which include the Gibbs-Boltzmann statistics, Tsallis statistics, the fluid entropy theory, and the minimum enstrophy state. From some of those initial states, we obtain the quasi-stationary states which are close to the minimum enstrophy state, but we also find that the quasi-stationary states depend upon initial states, even if the initial states have the same energy and angular momentum, which means the ergodicity does not hold.
Kawahara Ryo
Nakanishi Hiizu
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