Unusual ergodic and chaotic properties of trapped hard rods
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| author | Bagchi, Debarshee Kethepalli, Jitendra Bulchandani, Vir B. Dhar, Abhishek Huse, David A. Kulkarni, Manas Kundu, Anupam |
| author_facet | Bagchi, Debarshee Kethepalli, Jitendra Bulchandani, Vir B. Dhar, Abhishek Huse, David A. Kulkarni, Manas Kundu, Anupam |
| contents | We investigate ergodicity, chaos and thermalization for a one-dimensional classical gas of hard rods confined to an external quadratic or quartic trap, which breaks microscopic integrability. To quantify the strength of chaos in this system, we compute its maximal Lyapunov exponent numerically. The approach to thermal equilibrium is studied by considering the time evolution of particle position and velocity distributions and comparing the late-time profiles with the Gibbs state. Remarkably, we find that quadratically trapped hard rods are highly non-ergodic and do not resemble a Gibbs state even at extremely long times, despite compelling evidence of chaos for four or more rods. On the other hand, our numerical results reveal that hard rods in a quartic trap exhibit both chaos and thermalization, and equilibrate to a Gibbs state as expected for a nonintegrable many-body system. |
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| spellingShingle | Unusual ergodic and chaotic properties of trapped hard rods Bagchi, Debarshee Kethepalli, Jitendra Bulchandani, Vir B. Dhar, Abhishek Huse, David A. Kulkarni, Manas Kundu, Anupam Statistical Mechanics We investigate ergodicity, chaos and thermalization for a one-dimensional classical gas of hard rods confined to an external quadratic or quartic trap, which breaks microscopic integrability. To quantify the strength of chaos in this system, we compute its maximal Lyapunov exponent numerically. The approach to thermal equilibrium is studied by considering the time evolution of particle position and velocity distributions and comparing the late-time profiles with the Gibbs state. Remarkably, we find that quadratically trapped hard rods are highly non-ergodic and do not resemble a Gibbs state even at extremely long times, despite compelling evidence of chaos for four or more rods. On the other hand, our numerical results reveal that hard rods in a quartic trap exhibit both chaos and thermalization, and equilibrate to a Gibbs state as expected for a nonintegrable many-body system. |
| title | Unusual ergodic and chaotic properties of trapped hard rods |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11713 |