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This review provides an up-to-date account of energy transport in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) chains, a key testbed for nonequilibrium statistical physics. We discuss the transition from the historical puzzle of thermalization to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-18 Stefano Lepri , Roberto Livi , Antonio Politi

We utilize a fractional exclusion statistics of Haldane and Wu hypothesis to study the thermodynamics of a unitary Fermi gas trapped in a harmonic oscillator potential at ultra-low finite temperature. The entropy per particle as a function…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-01 Fang Qin , Ji-sheng Chen

The symmetry and resonance properties of the Fermi Pasta Ulam chain with periodic boundary conditions are exploited to construct a near-identity transformation bringing this Hamiltonian system into a particularly simple form. This…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bob Rink

In this paper we construct a higher order expansion of the manifold of quasi unidirectional waves in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) chain. We also approximate the dynamics on this manifold. As perturbation parameter we use $h^2=1/n^2$, where…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Matteo Gallone , Antonio Ponno , Bob Rink

We prove the non-integrability (non-existence of additional analytic conserved quantities other than Hamiltonian) for Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) lattices by virtue of Lyapunov-Kovalevskaya- -Ziglin-Yoshida's monodromy method about the…

solv-int · Physics 2015-06-26 Ken Umeno

A numerical and analytical study of the relaxation to equilibrium of both the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) alpha-model and the integrable Toda model, when the fundamental mode is initially excited, is reported. We show that the dynamics of both…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 Antonio Ponno , Helen Christodoulidi , Charalampos Skokos , Sergej Flach

We introduce and numerically study a long-range-interaction generalization of the one-dimensional Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) $\beta-$ model. The standard quartic interaction is generalized through a coupling constant that decays as $1/r^\alpha$…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Helen Christodoulidi , Constantino Tsallis , Tassos Bountis

We provide here an explicit example of Khinchin's idea that the validity of equilibrium statistical mechanics in high dimensional systems does not depend on the details of the dynamics. This point of view is supported by extensive numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-08 Marco Baldovin , Angelo Vulpiani , Giacomo Gradenigo

The major problem posed by the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam work was the relaxation (thermalization) of a many-body system. We review two approaches to this problem, the ergodic theory and Langevin (stochastic) equation ones, which have been applied…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 A. E. Allahverdyan , V. G. Gurzadyan

In 1955, Fermi, Pasta, Ulam, and Tsingou reported recurrence over time of energy between modes in a one-dimensional array of nonlinear oscillators. Subsequently, there have been myriad numerical experiments using homogenous FPUT arrays,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-12-19 Heather Nelson , Mason A. Porter , Bhaskar Choubey

We study the slow relaxation of isolated quasi-integrable systems, focusing on the classical problem of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPU) chain. It is well-known that the initial energy sharing between different linear-modes can be inferred by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-06 Tomer Goldfriend , Jorge Kurchan

Strongly interacting, dilute Fermi gases exhibit a scale-invariant, universal thermodynamic behaviour. This is notoriously difficult to understand theoretically because of the absence of a small interaction parameter. Here we present a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-08-25 Hui Hu , Xia-Ji Liu , Peter D. Drummond

We study the original $\alpha$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) system with $N=16,32$ and $64$ masses connected by a nonlinear quadratic spring. Our approach is based on resonant wave-wave interaction theory, i.e. we assume that, in the weakly…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-05 Miguel Onorato , Lara Vozella , Davide Proment , Yuri V. Lvov

The interplay between chaos and thermalization in weakly non-integrable systems is a rich and complex subject. Interest in this area is further motivated by a desire to develop a unified picture of chaos for both quantum and classical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-23 Nachiket Karve , Nathan Rose , David Campbell

In their seminal work, Fermi, Pasta, Ulam and Tsingou explored the connection between statistical mechanics and dynamical properties, such as chaos and ergodicity. Even today, seventy years later, the topic is not fully understood: while…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-01 Marco Baldovin , Marco Cattaneo , Dario Lucente , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Angelo Vulpiani

We consider a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou lattice with randomly varying coefficients. We discover a relatively simple condition which when placed on the nature of the randomness allows us to prove that small amplitude/long wavelength solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Joshua A. McGinnis , J. Douglas Wright

We discuss a class of mechanical models of thermometers and their minimal requirements to determine the temperature for systems out of the common scope of thermometry. In particular we consider: 1) anharmonic chains with long time of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-08 M. Baldovin , A. Puglisi , A. Sarracino , A. Vulpiani

It is reported that the numerical simulations of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem were performed by a young lady, Mary Tsingou. After 50 years of omission, it is time for a proper recognition of her decisive contribution to the first ever…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2008-01-11 Thierry Dauxois

We investigate, both analytically and numerically, dispersive fractalization and quantization of solutions to periodic linear and nonlinear Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou systems. When subject to periodic boundary conditions and discontinuous…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-06-02 Peter J. Olver , Ari Stern

All possible symmetry-determined nonlinear normal modes (also called by simple periodic orbits, one-mode solutions etc.) in both hard and soft Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-$\beta$ chains are discussed. A general method for studying their stability in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 G. M. Chechin , D. S. Ryabov