Fluctuating observation time ensembles in the thermodynamics of trajectories

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2014/03/P03012zbMATH Open1456.82547arXiv1311.1031OpenAlexW3098728928MaRDI QIDQ3301900FDOQ3301900

Authors: Adrián A. Budini, Robert M. Turner, Juan P. Garrahan 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The dynamics of stochastic systems, both classical and quantum, can be studied by analysing the statistical properties of dynamical trajectories. The properties of ensembles of such trajectories for long, but fixed, times are described by large-deviation (LD) rate functions. These LD functions play the role of dynamical free-energies: they are cumulant generating functions for time-integrated observables, and their analytic structure encodes dynamical phase behaviour. This "thermodynamics of trajectories" approach is to trajectories and dynamics what the equilibrium ensemble method of statistical mechanics is to configurations and statics. Here we show that, just like in the static case, there is a variety of alternative ensembles of trajectories, each defined by their global constraints, with that of trajectories of fixed total time being just one of these. We show that an ensemble of trajectories where some time-extensive quantity is constant (and large) but where total observation time fluctuates, is equivalent to the fixed-time ensemble, and the LD functions that describe one ensemble can be obtained from those that describe the other. We discuss how the equivalence between generalised ensembles can be exploited in path sampling schemes for generating rare dynamical trajectories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1031

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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