Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
1999-08-06
J. Stat. Phys. 99, 1339-1364 (2000)
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
13 pages (revtex) with 10 figures (encapsulated postscript)
Scientific paper
We present a novel mechanism for thermalizing a system of particles in equilibrium and nonequilibrium situations, based on specifically modeling energy transfer at the boundaries via a microscopic collision process. We apply our method to the periodic Lorentz gas, where a point particle moves diffusively through an ensemble of hard disks arranged on a triangular lattice. First, collision rules are defined for this system in thermal equilibrium. They determine the velocity of the moving particle such that the system is deterministic, time reversible, and microcanonical. These collision rules can systematically be adapted to the case where one associates arbitrarily many degrees of freedom to the disk, which here acts as a boundary. Subsequently, the system is investigated in nonequilibrium situations by applying an external field. We show that in the limit where the disk is endowed by infinitely many degrees of freedom it acts as a thermal reservoir yielding a well-defined nonequilibrium steady state. The characteristic properties of this state, as obtained from computer simulations, are finally compared to the ones of the so-called Gaussian thermostated driven Lorentz gas.
Klages Rainer
Nicolis Gregoire
Rateitschak Katja
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