Time auto-correlation function and Green-Kubo formula: A study on disordered harmonic chain
Abstract
We have considered heat conduction in a one-dimensional mass disordered harmonic chain of particles connected to two Langevin type reservoirs at different temperatures. An exact expression for the boundary heat current-current auto-correlation function in the non-equilibrium steady state (NESS) is obtained in terms of non-equilibrium phonon Green's functions. The time integral of the correlation function gives expected result, both in non-equilibrium as well as equilibrium cases. Using the form of this correlation function we show that asymptotic system size dependence of current fluctuation in NESS for a mass disordered harmonic chain is for different boundary conditions. For free and fixed boundary conditions we get and 3/2 respectively, while for pinned case the fluctuation decays exponentially with system size.
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@article{arxiv.1009.0366,
title = {Time auto-correlation function and Green-Kubo formula: A study on disordered harmonic chain},
author = {Anupam Kundu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.0366},
year = {2014}
}