Thermal conductivity for a momentum conservative model (Q842446)

In the present work, a model of the thermal conductivity is introduced, which diverges in the one- and two-dimensional cases, while it is finite in the three-dimensional case. Therefore a system of oscillators is considered, which is perturbed by a stochastic dynamics conserving momentum and energy. The thermal conductivity is computed using the Green-Kubo formula. In the harmonic case the current-current time correlation function is found that decays like \(t^{-d/2}\) in the unpinned case and like \(t^{-d/2-1}\) if an on-site harmonic potential is present (\(t\) - time, \(d\) - dimension). This implies a finite conductivity in \(d\geq3\) or in pinned cases. The conductivity is discussed in detail. For general anharmonic, strictly convex interactions some upper bounds for the conductivity are proven, that behave qualitatively as in the harmonic cases.