Dynamical ensembles in stationary states.

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Publication:1593301

DOI10.1007/BF02179860zbMATH Open1081.82580arXivchao-dyn/9501015OpenAlexW3104288443MaRDI QIDQ1593301FDOQ1593301


Authors: G. Gallavotti, E. G. D. Cohen Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 16 January 2001

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose as a generalization of an idea of Ruelle to describe turbulent fluid flow a chaotic hypothesis for reversible dissipative many particle systems in nonequilibrium stationary states in general. This implies an extension of the zeroth law of thermodynamics to non equilibrium states and it leads to the identification of a unique distribution m describing the asymptotic properties of the time evolution of the system for initial data randomly chosen with respect to a uniform distribution on phase space. For conservative systems in thermal equilibrium the chaotic hypothesis implies the ergodic hypothesis. We outline a procedure to obtain the distribution m: it leads to a new unifying point of view for the phase space behavior of dissipative and conservative systems. The chaotic hypothesis is confirmed in a non trivial, parameter--free, way by a recent computer experiment on the entropy production fluctuations in a shearing fluid far from equilibrium. Similar applications to other models are proposed, in particular to a model for the Kolmogorov--Obuchov theory for turbulent flow.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9501015




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