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Volumes and example trajectories for the different ways a “decreasing” transition can occur. The shaded areas represent the extended state definitions used in the analysis of the transitions, while the darker shaded areas are the actual states of the system. (a) A typical decreasing path. (b) and (c) Paths which visit the “increasing” no man’s land but only transition across the decreasing. (d) Path with both increasing and decreasing transitions.
