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Simple fluid with broken time reversal invariance

Statistical Mechanics 2022-09-21 v1

Abstract

We characterize a system of hard spheres with a simple collision rule that breaks time reversal symmetry, but conserves energy. The collisions lead to an a-chiral, isotropic, and homogeneous stationary state, whose properties are determined in simulations and compared to an approximate theory originally developed for elastic hard spheres. In the nonequilibrium fluid state, velocities are correlated, a phenomenon known from other nonequilibrium stationary states. The correlations are long-ranged decaying like 1/rd1/r^d in dd dimensions. Such correlations are expected on general grounds far from equilibrium and had previously been observed in driven or non-stationary systems.

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@article{arxiv.2204.09492,
  title  = {Simple fluid with broken time reversal invariance},
  author = {Niklas Grimm and Annette Zippelius and Matthias Fuchs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.09492},
  year   = {2022}
}

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14 pages, 17 Figures

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