Statistical mechanics - Microscopic chaos from brownian motion?

被引：49

作者：

Dettmann, CP

Cohen, EGD

van Beijeren, H

机构：

[1] Rockefeller Univ, Ctr Studies Phys & Biol, New York, NY 10021 USA

[2] Univ Utrecht, Inst Theoret Phys, NL-3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands

来源：

NATURE | 1999年 / 401卷 / 6756期

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D O I：

10.1038/44759

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Gaspard et al.1 have shown that the position of a brownian particle behaves like a Wiener process with positive resolution-dependent entropy2. More surprisingly3,4,5, they claim that this observation provides proof of ‘microscopic chaos’, a term they illustrate by examples of finite dimensional dynamical systems which are intrinsically unstable. We do not believe that they have provided evidence for microscopic chaos in the sense in which they use the term.

引用

页码：875 / 875

页数：1

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