Kinetics of clusters in a binary linear system

H.J. Hilhorst

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1975, vol. 79, issue 2, 171-200

Abstract: We consider the stochastically time-dependent behaviour of a binary linear chain of N units at temperature T and in an external field H. The kinetics is described in terms of clusters (sequences) of specified numbers of units in the same state. A coarse-grained master equation for the cluster densities on the chain is derived by an approximation due to Felderhof. We calculate the relaxation time of fluctuations, and the zero-field frequency-dependent susceptibility, of the fraction of units in a given state. Our results are compared to the phenomenological theory of irreversible thermodynamics.

Date: 1975
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(75)90151-X

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