Autonomous evolution of electron speeds in a thermostatted system: exact results

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AB005DMaRDI QIDQ5742472zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors F. Bonetto, Nikolai Chernov, A. Korepanov, Joel Lebowitz

Publication date 14 May 2019

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00016

zbMATH Keywords

electric fieldthermostated dynamicsvan Hove limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems and their relations with probability theory and stochastic processes (37A50) Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H10) Brownian motion (60J65) Stochastic methods applied to problems in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B31)

Abstract: We investigate a dynamical system consisting of $N$ particles moving on a $d$-dimensional torus under the action of an electric field $E$ with a Gaussian thermostat to keep the total energy constant. The particles are also subject to stochastic collisions which randomize direction but do not change the speed. We prove that in the van Hove scaling limit, $Eo0$ and $tot/E^2$, the trajectory of the speeds $v_i$ is described by a stochastic differential equation corresponding to diffusion on a constant energy sphere. This verifies previously conjectured behavior. Our results are based on splitting the system's evolution into a "slow" process and an independent "noise". We show that the noise, suitably rescaled, converges a Brownian motion, enhanced in the sense of rough paths. Then we employ the It^o-Lyons continuity theorem to identify the limit of the slow process.

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