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Temperature in nonequilibrium systems with conserved energy

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We study a class of nonequilibrium lattice models which describe local redistributions of a globally conserved energy. A particular subclass can be solved analytically, allowing to define a temperature T_{th} along the same lines as in the equilibrium microcanonical ensemble. The fluctuation-dissipation relation is explicitely found to be linear, but its slope differs from the inverse temperature T_{th}^{-1}. A numerical renormalization group procedure suggests that, at a coarse-grained level, all models behave similarly, leading to a two-parameter description of their macroscopic properties.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0406720,
  title  = {Temperature in nonequilibrium systems with conserved energy},
  author = {Eric Bertin and Olivier Dauchot and Michel Droz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0406720},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, final version

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