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Published on: July 19, 2016
Statistical ensemble inequivalence and bicritical points for two-dimensional flows and geophysical flows
Antoine Venaille1, Freddy Bouchet
1LEGI, UJF, INPG, CNRS, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble, France and INLN, CNRS, UNSA, 1361 route des lucioles, 06 560 Valbonne-Sophia Antipolis, France.
Abstract:
A theoretical description for the equilibrium states of a large class of models of two-dimensional and geophysical flows is presented. A statistical ensemble equivalence is found to exist generically in these models, related to the occurrence of peculiar phase transitions in the flow topology. The first example of a bicritical point (a bifurcation from a first toward two second order phase transitions) in the context of systems with long-range interactions is reported. Academic ocean models, the Fofonoff flows, are studied in the perspective of these results.
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