Dynamical ensembles in statistical mechanics

✍ Scribed by E.G.D. Cohen

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 526 KB
• Volume: 240
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4371(97)00129-5

✦ Synopsis

A distribution function, using dynamical weights, proposed previously to describe statistical mechanical systems in stationary states, is discussed from a physical point of view. The distribution function correctly describes certain large current fluctuations far from equilibrium, observed in two computer simulations, which model a shearing fluid and a conducting solid, respectively. I Anosov systems [2,3].