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Detailed Balance

Clearly a sufficient (but not necessary) condition for an equilibrium (time independent) probability distribution is the so-called detailed balance condition

This method can be used for any probability distribution, but if we choose the Boltzmann distribution

N.B. Z does not appear in this expression! It only involves quantities that we know or can easily calculate .



Paul Coddington, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, paulc@npac.syr.edu