Figure 4.

Increasing selection pressure on the efficiency of the work-harvesting processes maintaining the dissipative nonequilibrium steady states with decreasing available chemical potential difference. (a) Relative stability of the low and high-concentration steady states as function of $n\left(\mathrm{Hi}\right)$, where $n\left(\mathrm{Lo}\right)=5=\mathrm{const}.$ (b) Efficiency $\eta$ of the bifurcation processes at the individual high-concentration nonequilibrium steady states of species X⁽¹⁾, X⁽²⁾, and X⁽³⁾ as function of $c\left(\mathrm{Hi}\right)$, where $c\left(\mathrm{Lo}\right)=5=\mathrm{const}.$ (c) Representative trajectories of a chemical reaction network initialized close to each high-concentration steady state for $n\left(\mathrm{Hi}\right)=1200$. $S_{{\mathrm{X}}^{\left(1\right)}}$: high-concentration state of species X⁽¹⁾, $S_{{\mathrm{X}}^{\left(2\right)}}$: high-concentration state of species X⁽²⁾, $S_{{\mathrm{X}}^{\left(3\right)}}$: high-concentration state of species X⁽³⁾, $S_{\mathrm{Low}}$: Low-concentration steady state.