On the approach to equilibrium of a Hamiltonian chain of anharmonic oscillators

被引:42
作者
Parisi, G
机构
[1] Dipartimento di Fisica, Università La Sapienza, INFN Sezione di Roma I, 00185 Roma
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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS | 1997年 / 40卷 / 04期
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10.1209/epl/i1997-00471-9
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
In this note we study the approach to equilibrium of a chain of anharmonic oscillators. We find indications that a sufficiently large system always relaxes to the usual equilibrium distribution. There is no sign of an ergodicity threshold. The time to arrive to equilibrium diverges when g --> 0, g being the anharmonicity.
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