Heat Conduction and Entropy Production in Anharmonic Crystals with Self-Consistent Stochastic Reservoirs

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dc.creatorBonetto, Federico
dc.creatorLebowitz, Joel L.
dc.creatorLukkarinen, Jani
dc.creatorOlla, Stefano
dc.date2008-09-05
dc.date2008-11-21
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dc.descriptionWe investigate a class of anharmonic crystals in $d$ dimensions, $d\ge 1$, coupled to both external and internal heat baths of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type. The external heat baths, applied at the boundaries in the 1-direction, are at specified, unequal, temperatures $\tlb$ and $\trb$. The temperatures of the internal baths are determined in a self-consistent way by the requirement that there be no net energy exchange with the system in the non-equilibrium stationary state (NESS). We prove the existence of such a stationary self-consistent profile of temperatures for a finite system and show it minimizes the entropy production to leading order in $(\tlb -\trb)$. In the NESS the heat conductivity $κ$ is defined as the heat flux per unit area divided by the length of the system and $(\tlb -\trb)$. In the limit when the temperatures of the external reservoirs goes to the same temperature $T$, $κ(T)$ is given by the Green-Kubo formula, evaluated in an equilibrium system coupled to reservoirs all having the temperature $T$. This $κ(T)$ remains bounded as the size of the system goes to infinity. We also show that the corresponding infinite system Green-Kubo formula yields a finite result. Stronger results are obtained under the assumption that the self-consistent profile remains bounded.
dc.descriptionto appear in J. Stat. Phys
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0953
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0953
dc.identifierJournal of Statistical Physics onlinefirst (2008) online
dc.identifierdoi:10.1007/s10955-008-9657-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/222036
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.subjectMathematical Physics
dc.subjectProbability
dc.titleHeat Conduction and Entropy Production in Anharmonic Crystals with Self-Consistent Stochastic Reservoirs
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