Chaotic properties of systems with Markov dynamics
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V Lecomte1, C Appert-Rolland, F van Wijland
1Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (CNRS UMR8627), Bâtiment 210, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France.
Abstract:
We present a general approach for computing the dynamic partition function of a continuous-time Markov process. The Ruelle topological pressure is identified with the large deviation function of a physical observable. We construct for the first time a corresponding finite Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy for these processes. Then, as an example, the latter is computed for a symmetric exclusion process. We further present the first exact calculation of the topological pressure for an N-body stochastic interacting system, namely, an infinite-range Ising model endowed with spin-flip dynamics. Expressions for the Kolmogorov-Sinai and the topological entropies follow.
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