Journal Club du LPTMS: Dario Villamaina

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25/02/2013    
12:00 - 12:45

LPTMS, salle 201, 2ème étage, Bât 100, Campus d'Orsay
15 Rue Georges Clemenceau, Orsay, 91405
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Dario Villamaina, post-doc LPTMS

I will present some recent applications of non-equilibrium fluctuation theory to one-dimensional diffusive models.

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking at the Fluctuating Level (Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 180601 (2011) )

http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v107/i18/e180601

Abstract: Phase transitions not allowed in equilibrium steady states may happen, however, at the fluctuating level. We observe for the first time this striking and general phenomenon measuring current fluctuations in an isolated diffusive system. While small fluctuations result from the sum of weakly correlated local events, for currents above a critical threshold the system self-organizes into a coherent traveling wave which facilitates the current deviation by gathering energy in a localized packet, thus breaking translation invariance. This results in Gaussian statistics for small fluctuations but non-Gaussian tails above the critical current. Our observations, which agree with predictions derived from hydrodynamic fluctuation theory, strongly suggest that rare events are generically associated with coherent, self-organized patterns which enhance their probability.

 

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