Beyond Local Detailed Balance: Microscopic Rates Reshape Nonequilibrium Phase Behavior (opens in new tab)

Local detailed balance (LDB) is a central guiding principle for modeling nonequilibrium stochastic dynamics, yet it only constrains the ratio of forward and backward transition rates and does not fix the steady state. Although the functional form of rates under the same LDB has been shown to affect correlation properties in weakly interacting systems, whether it can reshape phase behavior in strongly interacting systems remains unclear. Here, fo...