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Kinetic theory of ${1D}$ homogeneous long-range interacting systems sourced by ${1/N^{2}}$ effects

Statistical Mechanics 2019-12-04 v1

Abstract

The long-term dynamics of long-range interacting NN-body systems can generically be described by the Balescu-Lenard kinetic equation. However, for 1D{1D} homogeneous systems, this collision operator exactly vanishes by symmetry. These systems undergo a kinetic blocking, and cannot relax as a whole under 1/N{1/N} resonant effects. As a result, these systems can only relax under 1/N2{1/N^{2}} effects, and their relaxation is drastically slowed down. In the context of the homogeneous Hamiltonian Mean Field model, we present a new, closed and explicit kinetic equation describing self-consistently the very long-term evolution of such systems, in the limit where collective effects can be neglected, i.e. for dynamically hot initial conditions. We show in particular how that kinetic equation satisfies an HH-Theorem that guarantees the unavoidable relaxation to the Boltzmann equilibrium distribution. Finally, we illustrate how that kinetic equation quantitatively matches with the measurements from direct NN-body simulations.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1907.07213,
  title  = {Kinetic theory of ${1D}$ homogeneous long-range interacting systems sourced by ${1/N^{2}}$ effects},
  author = {Jean-Baptiste Fouvry and Ben Bar-Or and Pierre-Henri Chavanis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.07213},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

15 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRE