Rényi entropy of the totally asymmetric exclusion process
Rényi entropy of the totally asymmetric exclusion process
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 30th October 2017
- Speaker: Anthony Wood (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
The physics of equilibrium systems are well understood under the universal framework of thermodynamics. Real systems are rarely so convenient, however, and equilibrium is often prevented through chemical potentials, particle currents and temperature gradients.
I will discuss the totally asymmetric exclusion process, a model that one could consider to be the ‘Ising model’ of nonequilibrium systems. This is an exactly solvable model with no notion of a temperature. In my work I have calculated what is known as a Rényi entropy. This is a generalisation of the usual Shannon entropy, that takes a unique form for equilibrium systems. In this nonequilibrium case we find a different form, suggesting a fundamental difference between equilibrium and nonequilibrium probability distributions.
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