Clusters die hard: Time-correlated excitation in the Hamiltonian mean field model

DOI10.1016/J.CNSNS.2006.08.006zbMATH Open1221.82062arXivnlin/0606041OpenAlexW2017069459WikidataQ61763146 ScholiaQ61763146MaRDI QIDQ718653FDOQ718653

Tetsuro Konishi, S. Ruffo, Hiroko Koyama

Publication date: 24 September 2011

Published in: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model has a low-energy phase where $N$ particles are trapped inside a cluster. Here, we investigate some properties of the trapping/untrapping mechanism of a single particle into/outside the cluster. Since the single particle dynamics of the HMF model resembles the one of a simple pendulum, each particle can be identified as a high-energy particle (HEP) or a low-energy particle (LEP), depending on whether its energy is above or below the separatrix energy. We then define the trapping ratio as the ratio of the number of LEP to the total number of particles and the ``fully-clustered and ``excited dynamical states as having either no HEP or at least one HEP. We analytically compute the phase-space average of the trapping ratio by using the Boltzmann-Gibbs stable stationary solution of the Vlasov equation associated with the $Noinfty$ limit of the HMF model. The same quantity, obtained numerically as a time average, is shown to be in very good agreement with the analytical calculation. Another important feature of the dynamical behavior of the system is that the dynamical state changes transitionally: the ``fully-clustered and ``excited states appear in turn. We find that the distribution of the lifetime of the ``fully-clustered state obeys a power law. This means that clusters die hard, and that the excitation of a particle from the cluster is not a Poisson process and might be controlled by some type of collective motion with long memory. Such behavior should not be specific of the HMF model and appear also in systems where {it itinerancy} among different ``quasi-stationary states has been observed. It is also possible that it could mimick the behavior of transient motion in molecular clusters or some observed deterministic features of chemical reactions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0606041

zbMATH Keywords

chaotic dynamicslong-range interactionsstatistical mechanicscluster dynamicsHamiltonian mean field modelchaotic itinerancy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

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