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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 200601 (2002) [4 pages]

Anomalous Heat Conduction in One-Dimensional Momentum-Conserving Systems

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Onuttom Narayan1,2 and Sriram Ramaswamy1
1Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
2Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064

Received 16 May 2002; published 24 October 2002

We show that for one-dimensional fluids the thermal conductivity generically diverges with system size L as L1/3, as a result of momentum conservation. Our results are consistent with the largest-scale numerical studies of two-component hard-particle systems. We suggest explanations for the apparent disagreement with studies on Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.200601
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.200601
PACS:
05.60.–k, 44.10.+i, 66.60.+a

*Present address.