title: Statistical theory of quasistationary states beyond the single water-bag case study.
abstract: An analytical solution for the out-of-equilibrium quasistationary states of the paradigmatic Hamiltonian mean field (HMF) model can be obtained from a maximum entropy principle. The theory has been so far tested with reference to a specific class of initial condition, the so called (single-level) water-bag type. In this paper a step forward is taken by considering an arbitrary number of overlapping water bags. The theory is benchmarked to direct microcanonical simulations performed for the case of a two-level water-bag. The comparison is shown to return an excellent agreement.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Energetica, Universitá di Firenze, via Santa Marta, 3 - I-50139 Firenze, Italy. malborasllani@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Mallbor
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Assllani
authors.forename: Duccio
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fanelli
authors.forename: Alessio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Turchi
authors.forename: Timoteo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Carletti
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Leoncini
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015233:Models, Statistical; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D014867:Water