Equilibration

Equilibration is referred to as the operation in which a system is in its equilibrium state. The Equilibrierungsprozess need not be driven from the outside, but running ( in completed and undisturbed systems ) by itself.

The term equilibration is in particular used in the thermodynamics and statistical physics to describe a physical system that passes by the equilibration at its thermodynamic equilibrium state. The time needed for this is called equilibration. She plays for numerical simulations of physical systems such as Monte Carlo simulations an important role to play this equilibrium state of the system because only after a sufficiently long equilibration time the measured variables. The time required for a system to equilibrate, strongly depends on the system and on the temperature, and is therefore often not easy to determine.

• Statistical Physics