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

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AB005DzbMATH Open1419.82022arXiv1809.00016OpenAlexW3102004346WikidataQ127900876 ScholiaQ127900876MaRDI QIDQ5742472FDOQ5742472

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

Publication date: 14 May 2019

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

electric fieldvan Hove limitthermostated dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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