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Heat conduction in 2d nonlinear lattices

chao-dyn 2007-05-23 v1 Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

The divergence of the heat conductivity in the thermodynamic limit is investigated in 2d-lattice models of anharmonic solids with nearest-neighbour interaction from single-well potentials. Two different numerical approaches based on nonequilibrium and equilibrium simulations provide consistent indications in favour of a logarithmic divergence in "ergodic", i.e. highly chaotic, dynamical regimes. Analytical estimates obtained in the framework of linear-response theory confirm this finding, while tracing back the physical origin of this {\sl anomalous} transport to the slow diffusion of the energy of long-wavelength effective Fourier modes. Finally, numerical evidence of {\sl superanomalous} transport is given in the weakly chaotic regime, typically found below some energy density threshold.

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@article{arxiv.chao-dyn/9910034,
  title  = {Heat conduction in 2d nonlinear lattices},
  author = {A. Lippi and R. Livi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9910034},
  year   = {2007}
}

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21 pages, 8 postscript figures

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