{
  "id": "1506.07654",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-06-25T08:01:57.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-06-25T08:01:57.000Z",
  "title": "Microcanonical analysis of a nonequilibrium system",
  "authors": [
    "Julian Lee"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 4 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "Microcanonical analysis is a powerful method for studying phase transition of finite-size systems. This method has been used so far only for studying the phase transition of an equilibrium system, which can be described by a microcanonical entropy. I show that it is possible to perform microcanonical analysis of a nonequilibrium phase transition, by generalizing the concept of microcanonical entropy. One-dimensional asymmetric diffusion process is studied as an example where such a generalized entropy can be explicitly found, and the microcanonical method is used to analyze the phase transition of the steady state.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-06-25T08:01:57.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "nonequilibrium system",
      "one-dimensional asymmetric diffusion process",
      "microcanonical entropy",
      "nonequilibrium phase transition",
      "perform microcanonical analysis"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2015arXiv150607654L"
    }
  }
}