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Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1861–1864 (1984)

One-Dimensional Classical Many-Body System Having a Normal Thermal Conductivity

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Giulio Casati
Istituto di Scienze Fisiche, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy

Joseph Ford and Franco Vivaldi
School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332

William M. Visscher
Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

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Received 28 March 1984; published in the issue dated 21 May 1984

By numerically computing orbits for a chaotic, one-dimensional, many-body system placed between two thermal reservoirs, we verify directly that its energy transport obeys the Fourier heat law and we determine its thermal conductivity K. The same value of K is independently obtained by use of the Green-Kubo formalism. These numerical studies verify that chaos is the essential ingredient of diffusive energy transport, and they validate the Green-Kubo formalism.

© 1984 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.1861
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.1861
PACS:
05.60.+w

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Erratum: Giulio Casati, Joseph Ford, Franco Vivaldi, and William M. Visscher, One-Dimensional Classical Many-Body System Having a Normal Thermal Conductivity, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1120 (1984).