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Michikazu Kobayashi1, Naoko Nakagawa2, Shin-Ichi Sasa3
1School of Engeneering Science, Kochi University of Technology, Miyanoguchi 185, Tosayamada, Kami, Kochi 782-8502, Japan.
Abstract:
The local equilibrium thermodynamics is a basic assumption of macroscopic descriptions of the out of equilibrium dynamics for Hamiltonian systems. We numerically analyze the Hamiltonian Potts model in two dimensions to study the violation of the assumption for phase coexistence in heat conduction. We observe that the temperature of the interface between ordered and disordered states deviates from the equilibrium transition temperature, indicating that metastable states at equilibrium are stabilized by the influence of a heat flux. We also find that the deviation is described by the formula proposed in an extended framework of the thermodynamics.
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