Drastic fall-off of the thermal conductivity for disordered lattices in the limit of weak anharmonic interactions
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Publication:4920107
DOI10.1088/0951-7715/26/3/837zbMATH Open1268.82014arXiv1203.3587OpenAlexW3103866690MaRDI QIDQ4920107FDOQ4920107
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 . 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 as . 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
Thermal effects in solid mechanics (74F05) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)
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