Rules for transition rates in nonequilibrium steady states.
Just as transition rates in a canonical ensemble must respect the principle of detailed balance, constraints exist on transition rates in driven steady states. I derive those constraints, by maximum information-entropy inference, and apply them to the steady states of driven diffusion and a sheared lattice fluid. The resulting ensemble can potentially explain nonequilibrium phase behavior and, for steady shear, gives rise to stress-mediated long-range interactions.
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.