Rigorous scaling law for the heat current in disordered harmonic chain

Abstract: We study the energy current in a model of heat conduction, first considered in detail by Casher and Lebowitz. The model consists of a one-dimensional disordered harmonic chain of n i.i.d. random masses, connected to their nearest neighbors via identical springs, and coupled at the boundaries to Langevin heat baths, with respective temperatures T_1 and T_n. Let EJ_n be the steady-state energy current across the chain, averaged over the masses. We prove that EJ_n sim (T_1 - T_n)n^{-3/2} in the limit n o infty, as has been conjectured by various authors over the time. The proof relies on a new explicit representation for the elements of the product of associated transfer matrices.

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This paper deals with the equations of motion for the Casher-Lebowitz chain. The authors result is the strict scaling relation for the mass averaged, or annealed, stationary current: Assume that the masses \(M_1,M_2,\dots, M_n\) are independent and identically distributed. Suppose that the common probability distribution of these masses admits a density, compactly supported on \((0,\infty)\), continuously differentiable inside its support, with an uniformly bounded derivative. Then there exist positive constants such that the heat current satisfies presented relation. Thea ctual proof is presented.

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