Collisional relaxation and dynamical scaling in multiparticle collisions dynamics
Abstract
We present the Multi-Particle-Collision (MPC) dynamics approach to simulate properties of low-dimensional systems. In particular, we illustrate the method for a simple model: a one-dimensional gas of point particles interacting through stochastic collisions and admitting three conservation laws (density, momentum and energy). Motivated from problems in fusion plasma physics, we consider an energy-dependent collision rate that accounts for the lower collisionality of high-energy particles. We study two problems: (i) the collisional relaxation to equilibrium starting from an off-equilibrium state and (ii) the anomalous dynamical scaling of equilibrium time-dependent correlation functions. For problem (i), we demonstrate the existence of long-lived population of suprathermal particles that propagate ballistically over a quasi-thermalized background. For (ii) we compare simulations with the predictions of nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamics for the structure factors of density fluctuations. Scaling analysis confirms the prediction that such model belong to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1801.09944,
title = {Collisional relaxation and dynamical scaling in multiparticle collisions dynamics},
author = {Stefano Lepri and Hugo Bufferand and Guido Ciraolo and Pierfrancesco Di Cintio and Philippe Ghendrih and Roberto Livi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09944},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
12 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the IHP workshop "Numerical aspects of nonequilibrium dynamics", 25-27 April 2017 Paris, France, in "Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics" (Springer)