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Claudio Landim

2011-07-13
12:05:00 - 12:50:00

國際會議廳 , Astronomy and Mathematics Building

A natural nonequilibrium free energy in introduced by considering the functional describing the large fluctuations of stationary nonequilibrium states. While in equilibrium this functional is always convex, in nonequilibrium this is not necessarily the case. We show that in nonequilibrium a new type of singularities can appear that are interpreted as phase transitions. In particular, this phenomenon occurs for the one-dimensional boundary driven weakly asymmetric exclusion process when the drift due to the external field is opposite to the one due to the external reservoirs, and strong enough.

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