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Superdiffusion of energy in a chain of harmonic oscillators with noise

Statistical Mechanics 2016-01-12 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider a one dimensional infinite chain of har- monic oscillators whose dynamics is perturbed by a stochastic term conserving energy and momentum. We prove that in the unpinned case the macroscopic evolution of the energy converges to a fractional diffusion. For a pinned system we prove that energy evolves diffusively, generalizing some of the results of [4].

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@article{arxiv.1402.2988,
  title  = {Superdiffusion of energy in a chain of harmonic oscillators with noise},
  author = {Milton Jara and Tomasz Komorowski and Stefano Olla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.2988},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

New version with corrections. Diffusion of phonon modes remouved, it will appear in a forthcoming note