FPU phenomenon for generic initial data

Details FPU phenomenon for generic initial data FPU phenomenon for generic initial data

2007-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/0705.1647v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.76.022104

The well known FPU phenomenon (lack of attainment of equipartition of the mode--energies at low energies, for some exceptional initial data) suggests that the FPU model does not have the mixing property at low energies. We give numerical indications that this is actually the case. This we show by computing orbits for sets of initial data of full measure, sampled out from the microcanonical ensemble by standard Montecarlo techniques. Mixing is tested by looking at the decay of the autocorrelations of the mode--energies, and it is found that the high--frequency modes have autocorrelations that tend instead to positive values. Indications are given that such a nonmixing property survives in the thermodynamic limit. It is left as an open problem whether mixing obtains within time--scales much longer than the presently available ones.

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