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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

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 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

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

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

We present a detailed analysis of the modulational instability of the zone-boundary mode for one and higher-dimensional Fermi--Pasta--Ulam (FPU) lattices. The growth of the instability is followed by a process of relaxation to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-04-08 Thierry Dauxois , R. Khomeriki , S. Ruffo

We investigate the long term evolution of trajectories in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) system, using as a probe the first non--trivial integral $J$ in the hierarchy of integrals of the corresponding Toda lattice model. To this end we perform…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-06 H. Christodoulidi , C. Efthymiopoulos

We present a detailed analysis of the modulational instability of the zone-boundary mode for one and higher-dimensional Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) lattices. Following this instability, a process of relaxation to equipartition takes place, which…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Thierry Dauxois , Ramaz Khomeriki , Francesco Piazza , Stefano Ruffo

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 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

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

The FPUT paradox is the phenomenon whereby a one-dimensional chain of oscillators with nonlinear couplings shows non-ergodic behavior. The trajectory of the system in phase space, with a long wavelength initial condition, closely follows…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-10-08 Nachiket Karve , Nathan Rose , David Campbell

We consider the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) chain composed by $N \gg 1$ particles and periodic boundary conditions, and endow the phase space with the Gibbs measure at small temperature $\beta^{-1}$. Given a fixed ${1\leq m \ll N}$, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 T. Grava , A. Maspero , G. Mazzuca , A. Ponno

In this letter, a multi-wave quasi-resonance framework is established to analyze energy diffusion in classical lattices, uncovering that it is fundamentally determined by the characteristics of eigenmodes. Namely, based on the presence and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-18 Wei Lin , Weicheng Fu , Zhen Wang , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

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 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

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

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

We consider a dimer lattice of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) type, where alternating linear couplings have a controllably small difference, and the cubic nonlinearity ($\beta$-FPUT) is the same for all interaction pairs. We use a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-09-27 Rajesh Chaunsali , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Dimitri Frantzeskakis , Georgios Theocharis

The diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) lattice is an infinite chain of alternating particles connected by identical nonlinear springs. We prove the existence of micropteron traveling waves in the diatomic FPUT lattice in the limit as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Timothy E. Faver , Hermen Jan Hupkes
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