Slow energy relaxation and localization in 1D lattices

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/46/304zbMATH Open0993.82031arXivnlin/0105028OpenAlexW3101395014WikidataQ61763328 ScholiaQ61763328MaRDI QIDQ4533668FDOQ4533668

Authors: Roberto Livi, Francesco Piazza, S. Lepri 

Publication date: 11 June 2002

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

Abstract: We investigate the energy relaxation process produced by thermal baths at zero temperature acting on the boundary atoms of chains of classical anharmonic oscillators. Time-dependent perturbation theory allows us to obtain an explicit solution of the harmonic problem: even in such a simple system nontrivial features emerge from the interplay of the different decay rates of Fourier modes. In particular, a crossover from an exponential to an inverse-square-root law occurs on a time scale proportional to the system size $N$. A further crossover back to an exponential law is observed only at much longer times (of the order $N^3$). In the nonlinear chain, the relaxation process is initially equivalent to the harmonic case over a wide time span, as illustrated by simulations of the $$ Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model. The distinctive feature is that the second crossover is not observed due to the spontaneous appearance of breathers, i.e. space-localized time-periodic solutions, that keep a finite residual energy in the lattice. We discuss the mechanism yielding such solutions and also explain why it crucially depends on the boundary conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0105028

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zbMATH Keywords

relaxation processnonlinear chainchain of classical anharmonic oscillators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

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