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We investigate the equilibration process of the strongly coupled quartic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) model by adding Langevin baths to the ends of the chain. The time evolution of the system is investigated by means of extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-07 Harald Schmid , Sauro Succi , Stefano Ruffo

Most studies on the problem of equilibration of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) system have focused on equipartition of energy being attained amongst the normal modes of the corresponding harmonic system. In the present work, we instead…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-07 Santhosh Ganapa , Amit Apte , Abhishek Dhar

The Fermi--Pasta--Ulam--Tsingou (FPUT) system, describing the evolution of $N$ coupled harmonic oscillators, has been the subject of much attention since the 1950's when experiments which contradicted predictions of thermalization of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Katja Vassilev , Boyang Wu

We study the thermalization dynamics of one-dimensional diatomic lattices (which represents the simplest system possessing multi-branch phonons), exemplified by the famous Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT)-$\beta$ and the Toda models. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-19 Sihan Feng , Weicheng Fu , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) problem addresses fundamental questions in statistical physics, and attempts to understand the origin of recurrences in the system have led to many great advances in nonlinear dynamics and mathematical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-06 Santhosh Ganapa

Wave kinetic theory has been suggested as a way to understand the longtime statistical behavior of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) system, with the aim of determining the thermalization time scale. The latter has been a major problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Boyang Wu

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

After a brief review of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) conservative system of N nonlinearly coupled oscillators, this paper addresses two problems: first, comparing two indicators for the equipartition, showing that the results are essentially…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-04-30 Jacopo De Tullio

The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam $\alpha$-model of harmonic oscillators with cubic anharmonic interactions is studied from a statistical mechanical point of view. Systems of N= 32 to 128 oscillators appear to be large enough to suggest statistical…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Lapo Casetti , Monica Cerruti-Sola , Marco Pettini , E. G. D. Cohen

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

We study the time scale T to equipartition in a 1D lattice of N masses coupled by quartic nonlinear (hard) springs (the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam beta model). We take the initial energy to be either in a single mode gamma or in a package of low…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 J. De Luca , A. Lichtenberg , S. Ruffo

The observation of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) paradox, namely the lack of equipartition in the evolution of a normal mode in a nonlinear chain on unexpectedly long times, is arguably the most famous numerical experiment in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-10 Gabriel M. Lando , Sergej Flach

We introduce a generalized $d$-dimensional Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) model in presence of long-range interactions, and perform a first-principle study of its chaos for $d=1,2,3$ through large-scale numerical simulations. The nonlinear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-28 Debarshee Bagchi , Constantino Tsallis

We propose a scaling ansatz for the elastic energy of a system near the critical jamming transition in terms of three relevant fields: the compressive strain $\Delta \phi$ relative to the critical jammed state, the shear strain $\epsilon$,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-14 Carl P. Goodrich , Andrea J. Liu , James P. Sethna

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 study the first-passage time (FPT) problem for widespread recurrent processes in confined though large systems and present a comprehensive framework for characterizing the FPT distribution over many time scales. We find that the FPT…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-21 Talia Baravi , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

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

We assess the ergodic properties of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou-$\alpha$ model for generic initial conditions using a Toda integral. It serves as an adiabatic invariant for the system and a suitable observable to measure its equilibrium…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-12 Helen Christodoulidi , Sergej Flach

Phase transitions correspond to the singular behavior of physical systems in response to continuous control parameters like temperature or external fields. Near continuous phase transitions, associated with the divergence of a correlation…

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
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