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Fractal entropy of a chain of nonlinear oscillators

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study the time evolution of a chain of nonlinear oscillators. We focus on the fractal features of the spectral entropy and analyze its characteristic intermediate timescales as a function of the nonlinear coupling. A Brownian motion is recognized, with an analytic power-law dependence of its diffusion coefficient on the coupling.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0206124,
  title  = {Fractal entropy of a chain of nonlinear oscillators},
  author = {A. Scardicchio and P. Facchi and S. Pascazio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0206124},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures, revised version to appear in Phys. Rev. E