Lattice Monte Carlo methods for systems far from equilibrium
Abstract
We present a new numerical Monte Carlo approach to determine the scaling behavior of lattice field theories far from equilibrium. The presented methods are generally applicable to systems where classical-statistical fluctuations dominate the dynamics. As an example, these methods are applied to the random-force-driven one-dimensional Burgers' equation - a model for hydrodynamic turbulence. For a self-similar forcing acting on all scales the system is driven to a nonequilibrium steady state characterized by a Kolmogorov energy spectrum. We extract correlation functions of single- and multi-point quantities and determine their scaling spectrum displaying anomalous scaling for high-order moments. Varying the external forcing we are able to tune the system continuously from equilibrium, where the fluctuations are short-range correlated, to the case where the system is strongly driven in the infrared. In the latter case the nonequilibrium scaling of small-scale fluctuations are shown to be universal.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1311.4386,
title = {Lattice Monte Carlo methods for systems far from equilibrium},
author = {David Mesterházy and Luca Biferale and Karl Jansen and Raffaele Tripiccione},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.4386},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures, presented at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2013), 29 July - 3 August 2013, Mainz, Germany