Weak and strong chaos in Fermi–Pasta–Ulam models and beyond

DOI10.1063/1.1849131zbMATH Open1080.82003arXivcond-mat/0410282OpenAlexW3098398449WikidataQ36100699 ScholiaQ36100699MaRDI QIDQ5705485FDOQ5705485

Authors: Marco Pettini, Lapo Casetti, Monica Cerruti-Sola, Roberto Franzosi, E. G. D. Cohen 

Publication date: 8 November 2005

Published in: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We briefly review some of the most relevant results that our group obtained in the past, while investigating the dynamics of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) models. A first result is the numerical evidence of the existence of two different kinds of transitions in the dynamics of the FPU models: i) a Stochasticity Threshold (ST), characterized by a value of the energy per degree of freedom below which the overwhelming majority of the phase space trajectories are regular (vanishing Lyapunov exponents). It tends to vanish as the number N of degrees of freedom is increased. ii) a Strong Stochasticity Threshold (SST), characterized by a value of the energy per degree of freedom at which a crossover appears between two different power laws of the energy dependence of the largest Lyapunov exponent, which phenomenologically corresponds to the transition between weakly and strongly chaotic regimes. It is stable with N. A second result is the development of a Riemannian geometric theory to explain the origin of Hamiltonian chaos. The starting of this theory has been motivated by the inadequacy of the approach based on homoclinic intersections to explain the origin of chaos in systems of arbitrarily large N, or arbitrarily far from quasi-integrability, or displaying a transition between weak and strong chaos. Finally, a third result stems from the search for the transition between weak and strong chaos in systems other than FPU. Actually, we found that a very sharp SST appears as the dynamical counterpart of a thermodynamic phase transition, which in turn has led, in the light of the Riemannian theory of chaos, to the development of a topological theory of phase transitions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0410282

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

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