Harmonic chain with velocity flips: thermalization and kinetic theory

DOI10.1007/S10955-016-1647-0MaRDI QIDQ523274zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. Lukkarinen, Matteo Marcozzi, Alessia Nota

Publication date 20 April 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.08135

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationsdiffusion processeskinetic theorylattice dynamicsvelocity flip model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: We consider the detailed structure of correlations in harmonic chains with pinning and a bulk velocity flip noise during the heat relaxation phase which occurs on diffusive time scales, for $t=O(L^2)$ where $L$ is the chain length. It has been shown earlier that for non-degenerate harmonic interactions these systems thermalize, and the dominant part of the correlations is given by local thermal equilibrium determined by a temperature profile which satisfies a linear heat equation. Here we are concerned with two new aspects about the thermalization process: the first order corrections in $1/L$ to the local equilibrium correlations and the applicability of kinetic theory to study the relaxation process. Employing previously derived explicit uniform estimates for the temperature profile, we first derive an explicit form for the first order corrections to the particle position-momentum correlations. By suitably revising the definition of the Wigner transform and the kinetic scaling limit we derive a phonon Boltzmann equation whose predictions agree with the explicit computation. Comparing the two results, the corrections can be understood as arising from two different sources: a current-related term and a correction to the position-position correlations related to spatial changes in the phonon eigenbasis.

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