On the definition of temperature in FPU systems

DOI10.1023/B:JOSS.0000022378.52789.B6zbMATH Open1052.82028arXivcond-mat/0311448OpenAlexW2114142799MaRDI QIDQ596646FDOQ596646

A. Carati, L. Galgani, Piero Cipriani

Publication date: 10 August 2004

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

Abstract: It is usually assumed, in classical statistical mechanics, that the temperature should coincide, apart from a suitable constant factor, with the mean kinetic energy of the particles. We show that this is not the case for FPU systems, in conditions in which energy equipartition between the modes is not attained. We find that the temperature should be rather identified with the mean value of the energy of the low frequency modes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311448

zbMATH Keywords

glassesspecific heatnonequilibriumFPU

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Time-dependent statistical mechanics (dynamic and nonequilibrium) (82C99)

Cited In (3)

• Time scale for energy equipartition in a two-dimensional FPU model
• THERMODYNAMIC LIMIT IN STATISTICAL PHYSICS
• The Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem as a challenge for the foundations of physics

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