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Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of a Two-temperature Ising Ring With Conserved Dynamics
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe statistical mechanics of a one-dimensional Ising model in thermal equilibrium is well-established, textbook material. Yet, when driven far from equilibrium by coupling two sectors to two baths at different temperatures, it exhibits remarkable phenomena, including an unexpected 'freezing by heating. These phenomena are explored through systematic numerical simulations. This study reveals complicated relaxation processes as well as a crossover between two very different steady state regimes which are found to be bistable within a certain parameter range.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph. D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Physics
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Physics
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Borchers, Nicholas
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Pleimling, Michel J.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Mather, William
- Cheng, Shengfeng
- Tauber, Uwe C.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- vt_gsexam:5503
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/52950