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Heat Conduction, and the Lack Thereof, in Time-Reversible Dynamical Systems: Generalized Nos\'e-Hoover Oscillators with a Temperature Gradient

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-18 v4 Chaotic Dynamics Classical Physics Computational Physics

Abstract

We use nonequilibrium molecular dynamics to analyze and illustrate the qualitative differences between the one-thermostat and two-thermostat versions of equilibrium and nonequilibrium (heat-conducting) harmonic oscillators. Conservative nonconducting regions can coexist with dissipative heat conducting regions in phase space with exactly the same imposed temperature field.

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@article{arxiv.1401.1762,
  title  = {Heat Conduction, and the Lack Thereof, in Time-Reversible Dynamical Systems: Generalized Nos\'e-Hoover Oscillators with a Temperature Gradient},
  author = {Julien Clinton Sprott and William Graham Hoover and Carol Griswold Hoover},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.1762},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Fifteen pages and six figures, incorporating two rounds of referees' suggestions for Physical Review E