Microscopic chaos from Brownian motion?
chao-dyn
2009-10-31 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
A recent experiment on Brownian motion has been interpreted to exhibit direct evidence for microscopic chaos. In this note we demonstrate that virtually identical results can be obtained numerically using a manifestly microscopically nonchaotic system.
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@article{arxiv.chao-dyn/9904041,
title = {Microscopic chaos from Brownian motion?},
author = {C. P. Dettmann and E. G. D. Cohen and H. van Beijeren},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9904041},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
3 pages, 1 figure, Comment on P. Gaspard et al, Nature vol 394, 865 (1998); rewritten in a more popular style