Normal transport properties in a metastable stationary state for a classical particle coupled to a non-Ohmic bath

DOI10.1007/S10955-008-9590-3zbMATH Open1152.82021arXiv0802.0592OpenAlexW1600003056MaRDI QIDQ960138FDOQ960138

Authors: P. Lafitte, P. E. Parris, Stephan De Bièvre 

Publication date: 16 December 2008

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

Abstract: We study the Hamiltonian motion of an ensemble of unconfined classical particles driven by an external field F through a translationally-invariant, thermal array of monochromatic Einstein oscillators. The system does not sustain a stationary state, because the oscillators cannot effectively absorb the energy of high speed particles. We nonetheless show that the system has at all positive temperatures a well-defined low-field mobility over macroscopic time scales of order exp(-c/F). The mobility is independent of F at low fields, and related to the zero-field diffusion constant D through the Einstein relation. The system therefore exhibits normal transport even though the bath obviously has a discrete frequency spectrum (it is simply monochromatic) and is therefore highly non-Ohmic. Such features are usually associated with anomalous transport properties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0592

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zbMATH Keywords

diffusionmobilityinelastic Lorentz gasnormal transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Special relativity (83A05) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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