Mesoscopic virial equation for nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
Abstract
We derive a class of mesoscopic virial equations governing energy partition between conjugate position and momentum variables of individual degrees of freedom. They are shown to apply to a wide range of nonequilibrium steady states with stochastic (Langevin) and deterministic (Nos\'e--Hoover) dynamics, and to extend to collective modes for models of heat-conducting lattices. A generalised macroscopic virial theorem ensues upon summation over all degrees of freedom. This theorem allows for the derivation of nonequilibrium state equations that involve dissipative heat flows on the same footing with state variables, as exemplified for inertial Brownian motion with solid friction and overdamped active Brownian particles subject to inhomogeneous pressure.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1512.01687,
title = {Mesoscopic virial equation for nonequilibrium statistical mechanics},
author = {Gianmaria Falasco and Fulvio Baldovin and Klaus Kroy and Marco Baiesi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.01687},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
14 pages, 3 figures. Some revisions