Energy Transport in Weakly Anharmonic Chains

Details Energy Transport in Weakly Anharmonic Chains Energy Transport in Weakly Anharmonic Chains

2006-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0602082v2

J. Stat. Phys. 124 (2006) 1105-1129

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

25 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1007/s10955-006-9171-2

We investigate the energy transport in a one-dimensional lattice of oscillators with a harmonic nearest neighbor coupling and a harmonic plus quartic on-site potential. As numerically observed for particular coupling parameters before, and confirmed by our study, such chains satisfy Fourier's law: a chain of length N coupled to thermal reservoirs at both ends has an average steady state energy current proportional to 1/N. On the theoretical level we employ the Peierls transport equation for phonons and note that beyond a mere exchange of labels it admits nondegenerate phonon collisions. These collisions are responsible for a finite heat conductivity. The predictions of kinetic theory are compared with molecular dynamics simulations. In the range of weak anharmonicity, respectively low temperatures, reasonable agreement is observed.

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