Superstatistics as the thermodynamic limit of driven classical systems

Abstract

Superstatistics is an elegant framework for the description of steady-state thermodynamics, mostly used for systems with long-range interactions such as plasmas. In this work, we show that the potential energy distribution of a classical system under externally imposed energy fluctuations can also be described by superstatistics in the thermodynamic limit. As an example, we apply this formalism to the thermodynamics of a finite Lennard-Jones crystal with constant microcanonical heat capacity driven by sinusoidal energy oscillations. Our results show that molecular dynamics simulations of the Lennard-Jones crystal are in agreement with the provided theoretical predictions.

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