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Crossover from Fermi-Pasta-Ulam to normal diffusive behaviour in heat conduction through open anharmonic lattices

Statistical Mechanics 2012-10-03 v1

Abstract

We study heat conduction in one, two and three dimensional anharmonic lattices connected to stochastic Langevin heat baths. The inter-atomic potential of the lattices is double-well type, i.e., VDW(x)=k2x2/2+k4x4/4V_{\rm DW}(x)=k_2x^2/2+k_4 x^4/4 with k2<0k_2<0 and k4>0k_4>0. We observe two different temperature regimes of transport: a high-temperature regime where asymptotic length dependence of nonequilibrium steady state heat current is similar to the well-known Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices with an inter-atomic potential, VFPU(x)=k2x2/2+k4x4/4V_{\rm FPU}(x)=k_2x^2/2+k_4 x^4/4 with k2,k4>0k_2,k_4>0. A low temperature regime where heat conduction is diffusive normal satisfying Fourier's law. We present our simulation results at different temperature regimes in all dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1203.4303,
  title  = {Crossover from Fermi-Pasta-Ulam to normal diffusive behaviour in heat conduction through open anharmonic lattices},
  author = {Dibyendu Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.4303},
  year   = {2012}
}

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5 pages, 7 figures