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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

One-dimensional chains are used as a fundamental model of condensed matter, and have constituted the starting point for key developments in nonlinear physics and complex systems. The pioneering work in this field was proposed by Fermi,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-16 Miguel Onorato , Yuri V. Lvov , Giovanni Dematteis , Sergio Chibbaro

We study conversion of thermal energy to mechanical energy and vice versa in $\alpha$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou~(FPUT) chain with spatially sinusoidal profile of initial temperature. We show analytically that coupling between macroscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Vitaly A. Kuzkin , Anton M. Krivtsov

One-dimensional particle chains are fundamental models to explain anomalous thermal conduction in low-dimensional solids like nanotubes and nanowires. In these systems the thermal energy is carried by phonons, i.e. propagating lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Francesco De Vita , Giovanni Dematteis , Raffaele Mazzilli , Davide Proment , Yuri V. Lvov , Miguel Onorato

The foundations of weak turbulence theory is explored through its application to the (alpha) Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) model, a simple weakly nonlinear dispersive system. A direct application of the standard kinetic equations would miss…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter R. Kramer , Joseph A. BIello , Yury Lvov

Commonly, thermal transport properties of one-dimensional systems are found to be anomalous. Here, we perform a numerical and theoretical study of the $\beta$-FPUT chain, considered a prototypical model for one-dimensional anharmonic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 Giovanni Dematteis , Lamberto Rondoni , Davide Proment , Francesco De Vita , Miguel Onorato

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

Ballistic transport and resonance phenomena are elucidated in the one-dimensional $\alpha$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) model using an approach of computing thermal response functions. The existence of periodic oscillations in spatially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Nathaniel Bohm , Patrick K. Schelling

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

Recent simulation results on heat conduction in a one-dimensional chain with an asymmetric inter-particle interaction potential and no onsite potential found non-anomalous heat transport in accordance to Fourier's law. This is a surprising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Suman G. Das , Abhishek Dhar , Onuttom Narayan

Thermalization in nonlinear systems is a central concept in statistical mechanics and has been extensively studied theoretically since the seminal work of Fermi, Pasta and Ulam (FPU). Using molecular dynamics and continuum modeling of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Daniel Midtvedt , Zenan Qi , Alexander Croy , Harold S. Park , Andreas Isacsson

We report the observation of the thermalization of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou recurrence process in optical fibers. We show the transition from a reversible regime to an irreversible one, revealing a spectrally thermalized state. To do…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-10-12 Guillaume Vanderhaegen , Pascal Szriftgiser , Alexandre Kudlinski , Matteo Conforti , Andrea Armaroli , Arnaud Mussot

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

Nonlinear normal modes are periodic orbits that survive in nonlinear chains, whose instability plays a crucial role in the dynamics of many-body Hamiltonian systems toward thermalization. Here we focus on how the stability of nonlinear…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-02 Liangtao Peng , Weicheng Fu , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) chains of particles in \textit{thermal equilibrium} are studied from both wave-interaction and particle-interaction points of view. It is shown that, even in a strongly nonlinear regime, the chain in thermal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-07-20 Boris Gershgorin

Nonintegrability is a necessary condition for the thermalization of a generic Hamiltonian system. In practice, the integrability can be broken in various ways. As illustrating examples, we numerically studied the thermalization behaviors of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-06 Weicheng Fu , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

We prove analytically and show numerically that the dynamics of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou chain is characterised by a transient Burgers turbulence regime on a wide range of time and energy scales. This regime is present at long…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-10 Matteo Gallone , Matteo Marian , Antonio Ponno , Stefano Ruffo

Over the past decade, substantial progress has been made in clarifying a central question of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou problem: whether weakly nonlinear lattice systems thermalize and, if so, through what mechanisms. The current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Weicheng Fu , Zhen Wang , Wei Lin , Dahai He , Jiao Wang , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

A finite (periodic) FPU chain is chosen as a convenient point for investigating the energy exchange phenomenon in nonlinear oscillatory systems. As we have recently shown, this phenomenon may occur as a consequence of the resonant…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-11 V. V. Smirnov , D. S. Shepelev , L. I. Manevitch

The Alpha version of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem is revisited through direct numerical simulations and an application of weak turbulence theory. The energy spectrum, initialized with a large scale excitation, is traced through a series of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph A. Biello , Peter R. Kramer , Yury Lvov
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