Macroscopic evolution of mechanical and thermal energy in a harmonic chain with random flip of velocities

2016/09/08 by Komorowski, Tomasz, Olla, Stefano, Simon, Marielle
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paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1609.02413

Abstract

We consider an unpinned chain of harmonic oscillators with periodic boundary conditions, whose dynamics is perturbed by a random flip of the sign of the velocities. The dynamics conserves the total volume (or elongation) and the total energy of the system. We prove that in a diffusive space-time scaling limit the profiles corresponding to the two conserved quantities converge to the solution of a diffusive system of differential equations. While the elongation follows a simple autonomous linear diffusive equation, the evolution of the energy depends on the gradient of the square of the elongation.

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