Timeline for Conceptual problem about non-equilibrium steady state
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| Oct 7, 2020 at 19:07 | comment | added | Roger V. | @WongHarry steady non-equilibrium is not necessarily achieved through the Hamiltonian - e.g., one may impose different chemical potentials or temperatures in parts of the system. | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 17:17 | comment | added | Wong Harry | Do you mean that in order to describe a system that can achieve equilibrium, you actually need more terms in the initial Hamiltonian? So by using a simple Hamiltonian itself already make an assumption that the system does not know how to achieve detailed balance? | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 16:49 | comment | added | Roger V. | @hyportnex the point that I make in my answer is that it is an implicit approximation, as opposed to the explicit ones made in mathematical derivations. Have you ever worked on non-equilibrium problems? | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 15:25 | comment | added | hyportnex | I fail to see how "...steady state is an approximation that is made even before we write the equations describing our system..., etc." is any different from any other problem we solve in physics or in sciences in general. After all, in a long enough time scale we are all dead. | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 12:18 | history | answered | Roger V. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |