When do tracer particles dominate the Lyapunov spectrum?

DOI10.1023/A:1020466732292zbMATH Open1040.82053arXivnlin/0112019OpenAlexW1721639915MaRDI QIDQ1850899FDOQ1850899

Authors: P. Gaspard, Henk van Beijeren 

Publication date: 15 December 2002

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Dynamical instability is studied in a deterministic dynamical system of Hamiltonian type composed of a tracer particle in a fluid of many particles. The tracer and fluid particles are hard balls (disks, in two dimensions, or spheres, in three dimensions) undergoing elastic collisions. The dynamical instability is characterized by the spectrum of Lyapunov exponents. The tracer particle is shown to dominate the Lyapunov spectrum in the neighborhoods of two limiting cases: the Lorentz-gas limit in which the tracer particle is much lighter than the fluid particles and the Rayleigh-flight limit in which the fluid particles have a vanishing radius and form an ideal gas. In both limits, a gap appears in the Lyapunov spectrum between the few largest Lyapunov exponents associated with the tracer and the rest of the Lyapunov spectrum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0112019

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zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motionLyapunov exponentsLorentz gastracer particlehard-ball systemsRayleigh flight

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

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