Entropy and Correlations in Lattice-Gas Automata Without Detailed Balance

Olivier Tribel () and Jean Pierre Boon ()
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Olivier Tribel: Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, C.P. 231, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Jean Pierre Boon: Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, C.P. 231, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 1997, vol. 08, issue 04, 641-652

Abstract: We consider lattice-gas automata where the lack of semi-detailed balance results from node occupation redistribution ruled by distant configurations; such models with nonlocal interactions are interesting because they exhibit non-ideal gas properties and can undergo phase transitions. For this class of automata, mean-field theory provides a correct evaluation of properties such as compressibility and viscosity (away from the phase transition), despite the fact that noH-theorem strictly holds. We introduce the notion oflocality— necessary to define quantities accessible to measurements — by treating the coupling between nonlocal bits as a perturbation. Then if we define operationally "local" states of the automaton — whether the system is in a homogeneous or in an inhomogeneous state — we can compute an estimator of the entropy and measure the local channel occupation correlations. These considerations are applied to a simple model with nonlocal interactions.

Keywords: Lattice-Gas Automata; H-Theorem; Entropy; Correlations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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