Published February 2, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Exponentially long times to equipartition in the thermodynamic limit

Description

We investigate with numerical methods the scaling of the relaxation time to equipartition in the celebrated Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model. Our numerical results strongly suggest that the time increases exponentially with an inverse power of the specific energy. Such a scaling appears to remain valid in the thermodynamic limit

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physleta.2003.11.052;
PII
S037596010301750X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. A
Journal Volume
321
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 167-172
ISSN
0375-9601
CODEN
PYLAAG

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36089009
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; RELAXATION TIME; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL
Descriptors DEC
FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE MODELS; STATISTICAL MODELS

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Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.