Energy transport in weakly anharmonic chains

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DOI10.1007/S10955-006-9171-2zbMATH Open1135.82326arXivcond-mat/0602082OpenAlexW2072454725MaRDI QIDQ857640FDOQ857640


Authors: Kenichiro Aoki, J. Lukkarinen, Herbert Spohn Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 December 2006

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

Abstract: We investigate the energy transport in a one-dimensional lattice of oscillators with a harmonic nearest neighbor coupling and a harmonic plus quartic on-site potential. As numerically observed for particular coupling parameters before, and confirmed by our study, such chains satisfy Fourier's law: a chain of length N coupled to thermal reservoirs at both ends has an average steady state energy current proportional to 1/N. On the theoretical level we employ the Peierls transport equation for phonons and note that beyond a mere exchange of labels it admits nondegenerate phonon collisions. These collisions are responsible for a finite heat conductivity. The predictions of kinetic theory are compared with molecular dynamics simulations. In the range of weak anharmonicity, respectively low temperatures, reasonable agreement is observed.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0602082




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