Dynamics of point-vortex type systems near thermal equilibrium: relaxation or not?

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Hauptverfasser: Duerinckx, Mitia, Jabin, Pierre-Emmanuel
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author Duerinckx, Mitia
Jabin, Pierre-Emmanuel
author_facet Duerinckx, Mitia
Jabin, Pierre-Emmanuel
contents This article is devoted to the long-time dynamics of point-vortex type systems near thermal equilibrium and to the possible emergence of collisional relaxation. More precisely, we consider a tagged particle coupled to a large number of background particles that are initially at equilibrium, and we analyze its resulting slow dynamics. On the one hand, in the spirit of the Lenard-Balescu relaxation for plasmas, we establish in a generic setting the outset of the slow thermalization of the tagged particle. On the other hand, we show that a completely different phenomenology is also possible in some degenerate regime: the slow dynamics of the tagged particle then remains conservative and the thermalization no longer holds in a strict sense. We provide the first detailed description of this degenerate regime and of its mixing properties. Note that it is particularly delicate to handle due to statistical closure problems, which manifest themselves as a lack of self-adjointness of the effective Hamiltonian.
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spellingShingle Dynamics of point-vortex type systems near thermal equilibrium: relaxation or not?
Duerinckx, Mitia
Jabin, Pierre-Emmanuel
Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
This article is devoted to the long-time dynamics of point-vortex type systems near thermal equilibrium and to the possible emergence of collisional relaxation. More precisely, we consider a tagged particle coupled to a large number of background particles that are initially at equilibrium, and we analyze its resulting slow dynamics. On the one hand, in the spirit of the Lenard-Balescu relaxation for plasmas, we establish in a generic setting the outset of the slow thermalization of the tagged particle. On the other hand, we show that a completely different phenomenology is also possible in some degenerate regime: the slow dynamics of the tagged particle then remains conservative and the thermalization no longer holds in a strict sense. We provide the first detailed description of this degenerate regime and of its mixing properties. Note that it is particularly delicate to handle due to statistical closure problems, which manifest themselves as a lack of self-adjointness of the effective Hamiltonian.
title Dynamics of point-vortex type systems near thermal equilibrium: relaxation or not?
topic Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01940