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How Hot Can a Heat Bath Get?

Hairer, Martin  
November 1, 2009
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

We study a model of two interacting Hamiltonian particles subject to a common potential in contact with two Langevin heat reservoirs: one at finite and one at infinite temperature. This is a toy model for 'extreme' non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. We provide a full picture of the long-time behaviour of such a system, including the existence/non-existence of a non-equilibrium steady state, the precise tail behaviour of the energy in such a state, as well as the speed of convergence toward the steady state.Despite its apparent simplicity, this model exhibits a surprisingly rich variety of long time behaviours, depending on the parameter regime: if the surrounding potential is 'too stiff', then no stationary state can exist. In the softer regimes, the tails of the energy in the stationary state can be either algebraic, fractional exponential, or exponential. Correspondingly, the speed of convergence to the stationary state can be either algebraic, stretched exponential, or exponential. Regarding both types of claims, we obtain matching upper and lower bounds.

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journal article
DOI
10.1007/s00220-009-0857-6
Web of Science ID

WOS:000269418400005

Author(s)
Hairer, Martin  
Date Issued

2009-11-01

Publisher

SPRINGER

Published in
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
Volume

292

Issue

1

Start page

131

End page

177

Subjects

NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL-MECHANICS

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FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION

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ANHARMONIC CHAINS

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MARKOV-PROCESSES

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OSCILLATORS

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CONVERGENCE

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EQUILIBRIUM

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UNIQUENESS

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EXISTENCE

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OPERATORS

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Science & Technology

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Physical Sciences

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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PROPDE  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

EPSRC

EP/D071593/1

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