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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
卷 80, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021138
关键词
many-body problems; nonequilibrium thermodynamics; order-disorder transformations; statistical mechanics
Systems with long-range interactions display a short-time relaxation toward quasistationary states (QSSs) whose lifetime increases with system size. The application of Lynden-Bell's theory of violent relaxation to the Hamiltonian Mean Field model leads to the prediction of out-of-equilibrium first- and second-order phase transitions between homogeneous (zero magnetization) and inhomogeneous (nonzero magnetization) QSSs, as well as an interesting phenomenon of phase re-entrances. We compare these theoretical predictions with direct N-body numerical simulations. We confirm the existence of phase re-entrance in the typical parameter range predicted from Lynden-Bell's theory, but also show that the picture is more complicated than initially thought. In particular, we exhibit the existence of secondary re-entrant phases: we find unmagnetized states in the theoretically magnetized region as well as persisting magnetized states in the theoretically unmagnetized region. We also report the existence of a region with negative specific heats for QSSs both in the numerical and analytical caloric curves.
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