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We present detailed numerical and analytical investigations of the nonequilibrium dynamics of spin-polarized ultracold Fermi gases following a sudden switching-on of the atom-atom pairing coupling strength. Within a time-dependent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-03-06 Andrea Tomadin , Marco Polini , M. P. Tosi , Rosario Fazio

We study heat conduction in one dimensional lattice dynamical systems far from equilibrium. The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model and the $\phi^4$ model are numerically compared to elucidate differences between momentum-conserving and nonconserving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira Ueda , Shinji Takesue

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

The deep sub-Ohmic spin-boson model shows a longstanding non-Markovian coherence at low temperature. Motivating to quench this robust coherence, the thermal effect is unitarily incorporated into the time evolution of the model, which is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-11 Yao Yao

Understanding the realization of thermal equilibrium through the thermalization process in a many-body system is a fundamental and complex scientific question, bridging thermodynamics and classical dynamics and connecting to a host of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Zhenwei Yao

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 study the statistics and short-times dynamics of the classical and the quantum Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain in thermal equilibrium. We analyze the distributions of single-particle configurations by integrating out the rest of the system. At…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Graziano Amati , Tanja Schilling

We report numerical evidence of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT)-like recurrence in weakly damped, periodically driven alpha-FPUT chains. In narrow regions of driving amplitude and damping, the steady-state energy is exchanged among a few…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-30 Yujun Shi , Haijiang Ren

We study instabilities and relaxation to equilibrium in a long-range extension of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPU) oscillator chain by exciting initially the lowest Fourier mode. Localization in mode space is stronger for the long-range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-07 George Miloshevich , Jean-Pierre Nguenang , Thierry Dauxois , Ramaz Khomeriki , Stefano Ruffo

The numerical investigation of the statics and dynamics of systems in nonequilibrium in general, and under shear flow in particular, has become more and more common. However, not all the numerical methods developed to simulate equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-08 José Ruiz-Franco , Lorenzo Rovigatti , Emanuela Zaccarelli

We deal with dynamics of the~$\beta$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou chain with one free end, subjected to the sinusoidal periodic force. We examine evolution of the total energy, supplied at large times. In the harmonic case~($\beta=0$), the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-11 Sergei D. Liazhkov

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

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 anomalous dynamical scaling of equilibrium correlations in one dimensional systems. Two different models are compared: the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain with cubic and quartic nonlinearity and a gas of point particles interacting…

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The effects of quantum and thermal corrections on the dynamics of a damped nonlinearly kicked harmonic oscillator are studied. This is done via the Quantum Langevin Equation formalism working on a truncated moment expansion of the density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Rodriguez-Achach , G. Perez , H. Cerdeira

The dynamics of initial long-wavelength excitations of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou chain has been the subject of intense investigations since the pioneering work of Fermi and collaborators. We have recently found a new regime where the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-27 Matteo Gallone , Antonio Ponno , Stefano Ruffo

After a brief comprehensive review of old and new results on the well known Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) conservative system of $N$ nonlinearly coupled oscillators, we present a compact linear mode representation of the Hamiltonian of the FPU…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 P. Poggi , S. Ruffo

In this letter we report numerical results giving, as a function of time, the energy fluctuation of a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam system in dynamical contact with a heat bath, the initial data of the FPU system being extracted from a Gibbs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Carati , L. Galgani