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.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:67314
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    1 March 2019
    Published
    23 January 2019
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:14 Mar 2019 16:29
    Last modified:25 Apr 2024 01:02
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/67314
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