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The onset of dissipative chaos driven by nonequilibrium conditions
1State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China.
Abstract:
Dissipative chaos appears widely in various nonequilibrium systems; however, it is not clear how dissipative chaos originates from nonequilibrium. We discuss a framework based on the potential-flux approach to study chaos from the perspective of nonequilibrium dynamics. In this framework, chaotic systems possess a wide basin on the potential landscape, in which the rotational flux dominates the system dynamics, and chaos occurs with the appearance of this basin. In contrast, the probability flux is particularly associated with the detailed balance-breaking in nonequilibrium systems. This implies that the appearance of dissipative chaos is driven by nonequilibrium conditions.
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