Drastic fall-off of the thermal conductivity for disordered lattices in the limit of weak anharmonic interactions

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/26/3/837zbMATH Open1268.82014arXiv1203.3587OpenAlexW3103866690MaRDI QIDQ4920107FDOQ4920107

Authors: François Huveneers 

Publication date: 16 May 2013

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the thermal conductivity, at fixed positive temperature, of a disordered lattice of harmonic oscillators, weakly coupled to each other through anharmonic potentials. The interaction is controlled by a small parameter $epsilon>0$. We rigorously show, in two slightly different setups, that the conductivity has a non-perturbative origin. This means that it decays to zero faster than any polynomial in $epsilon$ as $epsilonightarrow0$. It is then argued that this result extends to a disordered chain studied by Dhar and Lebowitz, and to a classical spins chain recently investigated by Oganesyan, Pal and Huse.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3587

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zbMATH Keywords

thermal conductivitydisordered lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermal effects in solid mechanics (74F05) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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