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Exact Free Energy Functional for a Driven Diffusive Open Stationary Nonequilibrium System

arXiv:cond-mat/0203161 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.030601

Abstract

We obtain the exact probability of finding a macroscopic density profile in the stationary nonequilibrium state of an open driven diffusive system, when the size of the system . , which plays the role of a nonequilibrium free energy, has a very different structure from that found in the purely diffusive case. As there, is nonlocal, but the shocks and dynamic phase transitions of the driven system are reflected in non-convexity of , in discontinuities in its second derivatives, and in non-Gaussian fluctuations in the steady state.

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