Speaker
Shinichi Sasa
(Kyoto University)
Description
Toward a theoretical understanding of a novel phenomenon—flux-induced stabilization of metastable states in non-equilibrium phase coexistence—we study discrete models under external driving. By analyzing the Zubarev-McLennan distribution for these models, we calculate the variational function determining the steady-state configuration of the interface between the liquid and gas regions. The obtained variational function is equivalent to that derived from a phenomenological framework called global thermodynamics. As a result, we derive the phase coexistence condition that leads to the flux-induced stabilization of metastable states. This work was done in collaboration with Naoko Nakagawa.