Non-equilibrium stationary state of a two-temperature spin chain

Details Non-equilibrium stationary state of a two-temperature spin chain Non-equilibrium stationary state of a two-temperature spin chain

2002-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0206345v1

Journal of Physics A Vol. 35, 2567-2580 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

11 pages, 1 figure, Revtex

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/35/11/304

A kinetic one-dimensional Ising model is coupled to two heat baths, such that spins at even (odd) lattice sites experience a temperature $T_{e}$ ($% T_{o}$). Spin flips occur with Glauber-type rates generalised to the case of two temperatures. Driven by the temperature differential, the spin chain settles into a non-equilibrium steady state which corresponds to the stationary solution of a master equation. We construct a perturbation expansion of this master equation in terms of the temperature difference and compute explicitly the first two corrections to the equilibrium Boltzmann distribution. The key result is the emergence of additional spin operators in the steady state, increasing in spatial range and order of spin products. We comment on the violation of detailed balance and entropy production in the steady state.

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