Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2011-07-26
Phys. Rev. E 84 (2011) 022102
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
To appear in Phys. Rev. E (2011)
Scientific paper
In non-equilibrium states, currents are produced by irreversible processes that take a system toward the equilibrium state, where the current vanishes. We demonstrate, in a general setting, that a superstatistics arises when the system relaxes to a (stationary) quasi-equilibrium state instead, where only the \textit{mean} current vanishes because of fluctuations. In particular, we show that a current with Gaussian white noise takes the system to a unique class of quasi-equilibrium states, where the superstatistics coincides with Tsallis escort $q$-distributions. Considering the fully developed turbulence as an example of such quasi-equilibrium states, we analytically deduce the power-law spectrum of the velocity structure functions, yielding a correction to the log-normal model which removes its shortcomings with regard to the decreasing higher order moments and the Novikov inequality, and obtain exponents that agree well with the experimental data.
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