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Shape-Dependent Thermodynamics and Non-Local Hydrodynamics in a Non-Gibbsian Steady-State of a Drift-Diffusion System

Francis J. Alexander, Gregory L. Eyink

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/9801258

Abstract

Shape-dependent thermodynamics and non-local hydrodynamics are argued to occur in dissipative steady states of driven diffusive systems. These predictions are confirmed by numerical simulations. Unlike power-law correlations, these phenomena cannot be explained by a hypothesis of ``criticality''. Instead, they require the effective Hamiltonian of the system to contain very long-range potentials, making the invariant probability measures formally ``non-Gibbsian''.

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