Thermal conductivity for coupled charged harmonic oscillators with noise in a magnetic field (Q1663672)

The authors introduce systems of charged harmonic oscillators in a magnetic field perturbed by a stochastic dynamics, which conserves energy but not momentum. They study the thermal conductivity via the Green-Kubo formula, focusing on the asymptotic behavior of the integral of the correlation function of the total energy current. Among the main results we mention the following ones: (i) The thermal conductivity diverges in dimensions one and two while it remains finite in dimension three. (ii) The Green-Kubo integral calculated with the microcanonical ensemble diverges as \(t^{1/4}\) for uniformly charged oscillators in dimension one (while it is known to diverge as \(t^{1/2}\) without magnetic field). The results here found provide a first rigorous example of a diverging thermal conductivity with vanishing sound speed.