Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
2004-02-16
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
6 pages, 5 figures, revtex4 style
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.69.056204
The largest Lyapunov exponent of a system composed by a heavy impurity embedded in a chain of anharmonic nearest-neighbor Fermi-Pasta-Ulam oscillators is numerically computed for various values of the impurity mass $M$. A crossover between weak and strong chaos is obtained at the same value $\epsilon_{_T}$ of the energy density $\epsilon$ (energy per degree of freedom) for all the considered values of the impurity mass $M$. The threshold $\epsi lon_{_T}$ coincides with the value of the energy density $\epsilon$ at which a change of scaling of the relaxation time of the momentum autocorrelation function of the impurity ocurrs and that was obtained in a previous work ~[M. Romero-Bastida and E. Braun, Phys. Rev. E {\bf65}, 036228 (2002)]. The complete Lyapunov spectrum does not depend significantly on the impurity mass $M$. These results suggest that the impurity does not contribute significantly to the dynamical instability (chaos) of the chain and can be considered as a probe for the dynamics of the system to which the impurity is coupled. Finally, it is shown that the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of the chain has a crossover from weak to strong chaos at the same value of the energy density that the crossover value $\epsilon_{_T}$ of largest Lyapunov exponent. Implications of this result are discussed.
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