Heat Conduction in Low Dimensions: From Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Chains to Single-Walled Nanotubes
| dc.creator | Grassberger, P. | |
| dc.creator | Yang, L. | |
| dc.date | 2002-04-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:45:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:45:00Z | |
| dc.description | Heat conduction in 1-dimensional anharmonic systems is anomalous in the sense that the conductivity κscales with a positive power of the system size, κ~ L^α. In two dimensions, previous simulations and theoretical arguments gave a logarithmic divergence. For rectangular systems of size L_\| x L_\perp there should be a cross-over from the 2-d to the 1-d behaviour as the aspect ratio r = L_\| / L_\perp increases from r=1 to r >> 1. When taking periodic boundary conditions in the transverse direction, this should be of direct relevance for the heat conduction in single-walled carbon nanotubes. In particular, one expects that k nanotubes of diameter R should conduct heat better than a single nanotube of the same length and of radius kR. We study this cross-over numerically by simulating the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model. Apart from giving a precise estimate of the exponent α, our most intriguing results are that the divergence does not seem to be logarithmic in d=2 but also power-like, and that the cross-over does not happen at a fixed aspect ratio. Instead, it happens at r=r^* with r^* -> \infty for L -> \infty. | |
| dc.description | RevTeX, 4 pages, including 7 figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0204247 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0204247 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/19158 | |
| dc.subject | Statistical Mechanics | |
| dc.subject | Materials Science | |
| dc.title | Heat Conduction in Low Dimensions: From Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Chains to Single-Walled Nanotubes | |
| dc.type | text |