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Equivalence of stationary state ensembles

Statistical Mechanics 2010-08-26 v1

Abstract

We show that the contact process in an ensemble with conserved total particle number, as simulated recently by Tome and de Oliveira [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 5463], is equivalent to the ordinary contact process, in agreement with what the authors assumed and believed. Similar conserved ensembles and equivalence proofs are easily constructed for other models.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0111168,
  title  = {Equivalence of stationary state ensembles},
  author = {H. J. Hilhorst and F. van Wijland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0111168},
  year   = {2010}
}

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