Anomalous energy transport in the FPU-β chain

Jani Lukkarinen, Herbert Spohn

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Abstract

We consider the energy current correlation function for the FPU-β lattice. For small nonlinearity one can rely on kinetic theory. The issue reduces then to a spectral analysis of the linearized collision operator. We prove thereby that, on the basis of kinetic theory, the energy current correlations decay in time as t-3/5. It follows that the thermal conductivity is anomalous, increasing as N2/5 with the system size N.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1753-1786
Number of pages34
JournalCommunications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
Volume61
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2008

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