Thermalization of a Brownian particle via coupling to low-dimensional chaos
chao-dyn
2016-08-31 v1 adap-org
Condensed Matter
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
It is shown that a paradigm of classical statistical mechanics --- the thermalization of a Brownian particle --- has a low-dimensional, deterministic analogue: when a heavy, slow system is coupled to fast deterministic chaos, the resultant forces drive the slow degrees of freedom toward a state of statistical equilibrium with the fast degrees. This illustrates how concepts useful in statistical mechanics may apply in situations where low-dimensional chaos exists.
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@article{arxiv.chao-dyn/9501028,
title = {Thermalization of a Brownian particle via coupling to low-dimensional chaos},
author = {Christopher Jarzynski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9501028},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Revtex, 11 pages, no figures.