New answers tagged non-equilibrium
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This kind of exponential decay toward "equilibrium" can be derived when one looks at a Markov process.
In this case, if we call $S_t$ the state of the system at time $t$ and $S_{t+1}$ the state at time $t+1$, one has for the evolution:
$S_{t+1} = T S_t $
where $T$ is called the transition matrix. This implies that $S_t = T^t S_0$. The idea is then to ...
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This form of $dE/d\tau$ is valid only when the system is not too far from equilibrium and linear response assumption is valid. The fact that $dE/d\tau$ depends on the difference $E - E(0)$ alone is a consequence of assuming a linear response.
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