Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2004-12-03
Phys. Rev. E 71, 046140 (2005)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
16 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.71.046140
We study a class of non-equilibrium lattice models describing local redistributions of a globally conserved quantity, which is interpreted as an energy. A particular subclass can be solved exactly, allowing to define a statistical temperature T_{th} along the same lines as in the equilibrium microcanonical ensemble. We compute the response function and find that when the fluctuation-dissipation relation is linear, the slope T_{FD}^{-1} of this relation differs from the inverse temperature T_{th}^{-1}. We argue that T_{th} is physically more relevant than T_{FD}, since in the steady-state regime, it takes equal values in two subsystems of a large isolated system. Finally, a numerical renormalization group procedure suggests that all models within the class behave similarly at a coarse-grained level, leading to a new parameter which describes the deviation from equilibrium. Quantitative predictions concerning this parameter are obtained within a mean-field framework.
Bertin Eric
Dauchot Olivier
Droz Michel
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