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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 18: Statistical Physics Far from Thermal Equilibrium
DY 18.6: Talk
Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 11:00–11:15, H48
Globally Coupled Stratonovich Models: Self-consistent Theory of a Non-equilibrium Continuous Phase Transition — •Marc Höll1 and Ulrich Behn2 — 1Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany — 2Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, Brüderstr. 16, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
We consider a globally harmonically coupled array of N Stratonovich models. The system exhibits a second order non-equilibrium phase transition when crossing a critical value of the control parameter. For strong coupling it is useful to introduce center of mass and relative coordinates since their chararacteristic time scales are clearly separated. We develop a self consistent approximate theory to determine the stationary probability distributions of these coordinates. For infinite coupling strength the relative coordinates relax very fast to zero and the stationary probability distribution is a δ-function, whereas for finite strength it has a nonzero variance which is determined self-consistently. The results for finite systems with strong but finite coupling are compared with data from simulations and a good agreement is observed.