Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2008-06-25
Phys. Rev. E vol. 78, 061136 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
4 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.78.061136
We address the question of the effect of disorder on heat conduction in an anharmonic chain with interactions given by the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) potential. In contrast to the conclusions of an earlier paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 63 (2001)] which found that disorder could induce a finite thermal conductivity at low temperatures, we find no evidence of a finite temperature transition in conducting properties. Instead, we find that at low temperatures, small system size transport properties are dominated by disorder but the asymptotic system size dependence of current is given by the usual FPU result J ~ 1/N^{2/3}. We also present new interesting results on the binary-mass ordered FPU chain.
Dhar Abhishek
Saito Keiji
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