In the study of non
equilibrium stationary states of dissipative systems (for instance,
turbulence), the fluctuating injected power is a natural
observable to look at, insofar as (i) it is usually experimentally
easily accessible (ii) the average of this quantity is proportional to the
mean entropy production. However, for the theoretician, this
quantity is quite difficult to analyse, because of the lack of precise
knowledge about stationary states in dissipative systems. As a
result, dissipative models where the stationary state can be exactly computed
can be a valuable tool to fill the gap between theory and
experiments, as examples where
the both the inner structuration of the stationary state and the
statistical properties of the energy injection are known. Using fermionic
techniques, I will show that the large deviation function of the
time-integrated injected power of some 1D dissipative systems of
classical spins can be computed exactly. The results allow to analyse the
influence of the injection mechanism on the statistical properties of the
stationary state, and it will be shown that some interesting non
trivial temporal features of the injection are closely related
to the spatial stationary profile of the energy field.
Ref: J.
Farago and E.Pitard, cond-mat/0703430,
to appear in J. Stat. Phys.