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The local equilibrium picture of the time evolution of a gas may have to be modified in the presence of shocks in order to admit statistical mixtures of pure states in the hydrodynamic description. An example drawn from a stochastic many-particle model (asymmetric zero-range model) is described.
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Wick, W.D. A dynamical phase transition in an infinite particle system. J Stat Phys 38, 1015–1025 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01010427
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