Intermittent many-body dynamics at equilibrium
Intermittent many-body dynamics at equilibrium
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DOI:
10.1103/physreve.95.060202
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发表时间:
2017-06-02
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Flach, S.
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作者:
Danieli, C.;Campbell, D. K.;Flach, S.
The equilibrium value of an observable defines a manifold in the phase space of an ergodic and equipartitioned many-body system. A typical trajectory pierces that manifold infinitely often as time goes to infinity. We use these piercings to measure both the relaxation time of the lowest frequency eigenmode of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain, as well as the fluctuations of the subsequent dynamics in equilibrium. The dynamics in equilibrium is characterized by a power-law distribution of excursion times far off equilibrium, with diverging variance. Long excursions arise from sticky dynamics close to q-breathers localized in normal mode space. Measuring the exponent allows one to predict the transition into nonergodic dynamics. We generalize our method to Klein-Gordon lattices where the sticky dynamics is due to discrete breathers localized in real space.