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Information theory of open fragmenting systems

F. Gulminelli, Ph. Chomaz, O. Juillet, M. J. Ison, C. O. Dorso

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0511012

Abstract

An information theory description of finite systems explicitly evolving in time is presented. We impose a MaxEnt variational principle on the Shannon entropy at a given time while the constraints are set at a former time. The resulting density matrix contains explicit time odd components in the form of collective flows. As a specific application we consider the dynamics of the expansion in connection with heavy ion experiments. Lattice gas and classical molecular dynamics simulations are shown.

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