Classical Canonical Distribution for Dissipative Systems
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Theory
Classical Physics
Abstract
In this paper we derive the canonical distribution as a stationary solution of the Liouville equation for the classical dissipative system. Dissipative classical systems can have stationary states look like canonical Gibbs distributions. The condition for non-potential forces which leads to this stationary solution is very simple: the power of the non-potential forces must be directly proportional to the velocity of the Gibbs phase (phase entropy density) change. The example of the canonical distribution for a linear oscillator with friction is considered.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0311536,
title = {Classical Canonical Distribution for Dissipative Systems},
author = {Vasily E. Tarasov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0311536},
year = {2009}
}
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