The Kac Model Coupled to a Thermostat
The Kac Model Coupled to a Thermostat
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与恒温器耦合的 Kac 模型
DOI:
10.1007/s10955-014-0999-6
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
R. Vaidyanathan
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作者:
F. Bonetto;M. Loss;R. Vaidyanathan
In this paper we study a model of randomly colliding particles interacting with a thermal bath. Collisions between particles are modeled via the Kac master equation while the thermostat is seen as an infinite gas at thermal equilibrium at inverse temperature $$\beta $$β. The system admits the canonical distribution at inverse temperature $$\beta $$β as the unique equilibrium state. We prove that any initial distribution approaches the equilibrium distribution exponentially fast both by computing the gap of the generator of the evolution, in a proper function space, as well as by proving exponential decay in relative entropy. We also show that the evolution propagates chaos and that the one particle marginal, in the large system limit, satisfies an effective Boltzmann-type equation.