Local thermal equilibrium for certain stochastic models of heat transport

DOI10.1007/S10955-016-1466-3zbMATH Open1344.82039arXiv1505.02047OpenAlexW3106461703MaRDI QIDQ288197FDOQ288197

Authors: Yao Li, Péter Nándori, Lai-Sang Young 

Publication date: 25 May 2016

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

Abstract: This paper is about nonequilibrium steady states (NESS) of a class of stochastic models in which particles exchange energy with their "local environments" rather than directly with one another. The physical domain of the system can be a bounded region of $mathbb{R}^d$ for any $dge1$. We assume that the temperature at the boundary of the domain is prescribed and is nonconstant, so that the system is forced out of equilibrium. Our main result is local thermal equilibrium in the infinite volume limit. In the Hamiltonian context, this would mean that at any location $x$ in the domain, local marginal distributions of NESS tend to a probability with density $$, permitting one to define the local temperature at $x$ to be $$. We prove also that in the infinite volume limit, the mean energy profile of NESS satisfies Laplace's equation for the prescribed boundary condition. Our method of proof is duality: by reversing the sample paths of particle movements, we convert the problem of studying local marginal energy distributions at $x$ to that of joint hitting distributions of certain random walks starting from $x$, and prove that the walks in question become increasingly independent as system size tends to infinity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02047

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zbMATH Keywords

heat transportlocal thermodynamic equilibriumnonequilibrium steady states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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