Theoretical approaches to the steady-state statistical physics of interacting dissipative units
arXiv:1608.08507 · doi:10.1088/1751-8121/aa546b
Abstract
The aim of this review is to provide a concise overview of some of the generic approaches that have been developed to deal with the statistical description of large systems of interacting dissipative 'units'. The latter notion includes, e.g., inelastic grains, active or self-propelled particles, bubbles in a foam, low-dimensional dynamical systems like driven oscillators, or even spatially extended modes like Fourier modes of the velocity field in a fluid for instance. We first review methods based on the statistical properties of a single unit, starting with elementary mean-field approximations, either static or dynamic, that describe a unit embedded in a 'self-consistent' environment. We then discuss how this basic mean-field approach can be extended to account for spatial dependences, in the form of space-dependent mean-field Fokker-Planck equations for example. We also briefly review the use of kinetic theory in the framework of the Boltzmann equation, which is an appropriate description for dilute systems. We then turn to descriptions in terms of the full -body distribution, starting from exact solutions of one-dimensional models, using a Matrix Product Ansatz method when correlations are present. Since exactly solvable models are scarce, we also present some approximation methods that can be used to determine the -body distribution in a large system of dissipative units. These methods include the Edwards approach for dense granular matter and the approximate treatment of multiparticle Langevin equations with coloured noise, which models systems of self-propelled particles. Throughout this review, emphasis is put on methodological aspects of the statistical modeling and on formal similarities between different physical problems, rather than on the specific behaviour of a given system.
65 pages, review article, final version (minor corrections with respect to v2)
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