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Thermal Conductivity for a Momentum Conserving Model

Statistical Mechanics 2009-03-04 v5 Probability

Abstract

We introduce a model whose thermal conductivity diverges in dimension 1 and 2, while it remains finite in dimension 3. We consider a system of oscillators perturbed by a stochastic dynamics conserving momentum and energy. We compute thermal conductivity via Green-Kubo formula. In the harmonic case we compute the current-current time correlation function, that decay like td/2t^{-d/2} in the unpinned case and like td/21t^{-d/2-1} if a on-site harmonic potential is present. This implies a finite conductivity in d3d\ge 3 or in pinned cases, and we compute it explicitly. For general anharmonic strictly convex interactions we prove some upper bounds for the conductivity that behave qualitatively as in the harmonic cases.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0601544,
  title  = {Thermal Conductivity for a Momentum Conserving Model},
  author = {Giada Basile and Cedric Bernardin and Stefano Olla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0601544},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Accepted for the publication in Communications in Mathematical Physics

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