Dynamical freezing of relaxation to equilibrium
Iubini, Stefano and Chirondojan, Liviu Florin and Oppo, Gian-Luca and Politi, Antonio and Politi, Paolo (2019) Dynamical freezing of relaxation to equilibrium. Physical Review Letters, 122 (8). 084102. ISSN 1079-7114 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.084102)
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Abstract
We provide evidence of an extremely slow thermalization occurring in the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger model. At variance with many similar processes encountered in statistical mechanics— typically ascribed to the presence of (free) energy barriers—here the slowness has a purely dynamical origin: it is due to the presence of an adiabatic invariant, which freezes the dynamics of a tall breather. Consequently, relaxation proceeds via rare events, where energy is suddenly released towards the background. We conjecture that this exponentially slow relaxation is a key ingredient contributing to the nonergodic behavior recently observed in the negative-temperature region of the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation.
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Iubini, Stefano, Chirondojan, Liviu Florin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8151-1168, Oppo, Gian-Luca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-4309, Politi, Antonio and Politi, Paolo;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 67314 Dates: DateEvent1 March 2019Published23 January 2019AcceptedSubjects: Science > Physics Department: Faculty of Science > Physics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 14 Mar 2019 16:29 Last modified: 02 Oct 2024 00:32 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/67314