Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
2007-12-04
J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P12001
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
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Scientific paper
10.1088/1742-5468/2007/12/P12001
Two deterministic models for Brownian motion are investigated by means of numerical simulations and kinetic theory arguments. The first model consists of a heavy hard disk immersed in a rarefied gas of smaller and lighter hard disks acting as a thermal bath. The second is the same except for the shape of the particles, which is now square. The basic difference of these two systems lies in the interaction: hard core elastic collisions make the dynamics of the disks chaotic whereas that of squares is not. Remarkably, this difference is not reflected in the transport properties of the two systems: simulations show that the diffusion coefficients, velocity correlations and response functions of the heavy impurity are in agreement with kinetic theory for both the chaotic and the non-chaotic model. The relaxation to equilibrium, however, is very sensitive to the kind of interaction. These observations are used to reconsider and discuss some issues connected to chaos, statistical mechanics and diffusion.
Cecconi Fabio
Cencini Massimo
Vulpiani Angelo
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