Out-of-equilibrium states as statistical equilibria of an effective dynamics structures

Julien Barre, Freddy Bouchet, Thierry Dauxois, Stefano Ruffo

Abstract

We study the formation of coherent structures in a system with long-range interactions where particles moving on a circle interact through a repulsive cosine potential. Non equilibrium structures are shown to correspond to statistical equilibria of an effective dynamics, which is derived using averaging techniques. This simple behavior might be a prototype of others observed in more complicated systems with long-range interactions, like two-dimensional incompressible fluids and wave-particle interaction in a plasma.

Physical Review Letters 89, 110601 (2002).

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