Breakdown of the Onsager principle as a sign of aging

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2003-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0304506v1

Phys. Rev. E 68, 056123 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.68.056123

We discuss the problem of the equivalence between Continuous Time Random Walk (CTRW) and Generalized Master Equation (GME). The walker, making instantaneous jumps from one site of the lattice to another, resides in each site for extended times. The sojourn times have a distribution psi(t) that is assumed to be an inverse power law. We assume that the Onsager principle is fulfilled, and we use this assumption to establish a complete equivalence between GME and the Montroll-Weiss CTRW. We prove that this equivalence is confined to the case when psi(t) is an exponential. We argue that is so because the Montroll-Weiss CTRW, as recently proved by Barkai [E. Barkai, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 104101 (2003)], is non-stationary, thereby implying aging, while the Onsager principle, is valid only in the case of fully aged systems. We consider the case of a dichotomous fluctuation, and we prove that the Onsager principle is fulfilled for any form of regression to equilibrium provided that the stationary condition holds true. We set the stationary condition on both the CTRW and the GME, thereby creating a condition of total equivalence, regardless the nature of the waiting time distribution. As a consequence of this procedure we create a GME that it is a "bona fide" master equation, in spite of being non-Markovian. We note that the memory kernel of the GME affords information on the interaction between system of interest and its bath. The Poisson case yields a bath with infinitely fast fluctuations. We argue that departing from the Poisson form has the effect of creating a condition of infinite memory and that these results might be useful to shed light into the problem of how to unravel non-Markovian master equations.

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