https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00156-3
Conservative ensembles for nonequilibrium lattice-gas systems
Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo,
Caixa Postal 66318, 05315-970 São Paulo, Brazil
Corresponding author: a oliveira@if.usp.br
Received:
4
September
2007
Revised:
14
January
2008
Published online:
16
April
2008
We show how to set up a constant particle ensemble for the steady state of nonequilibrium lattice-gas systems which originally are defined on a constant rate ensemble. We focus on nonequilibrium systems in which particles are created and annihilated on the sites of a lattice and described by a master equation. We consider also the case in which a quantity other than the number of particle is conserved. The conservative ensembles can be useful in the study of phase transitions and critical phenomena particularly discontinuous phase transitions.
PACS: 02.50.-r – Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics / 05.70.Ln – Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2008
