Linear theory and violent relaxation in long-range systems: a test case

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/17/175002zbMATH Open1236.82036arXiv1011.2870OpenAlexW3103469192MaRDI QIDQ2998069FDOQ2998069

Authors: W. Ettoumi, Marie-Christine Firpo 

Publication date: 18 May 2011

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article, several aspects of the dynamics of a toy model for longrange Hamiltonian systems are tackled focusing on linearly unstable unmagnetized (i.e. force-free) cold equilibria states of the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF). For special cases, exact finite-N linear growth rates have been exhibited, including, in some spatially inhomogeneous case, finite-N corrections. A random matrix approach is then proposed to estimate the finite-N growth rate for some random initial states. Within the continuous, $Nightarrowinfty$, approach, the growth rates are finally derived without restricting to spatially homogeneous cases. All the numerical simulations show a very good agreement with the different theoretical predictions. Then, these linear results are used to discuss the large-time nonlinear evolution. A simple criterion is proposed to measure the ability of the system to undergo a violent relaxation that transports it in the vicinity of the equilibrium state within some linear e-folding times.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2870

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zbMATH Keywords

thermalizationlong-range Hamiltonian systemsrandom matrix approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05) Stability problems for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H14)

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