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Thermal conductivity for coupled charged harmonic oscillators with noise in a magnetic field

arXiv:1706.09668 · doi:10.1007/s00220-018-3198-5

Abstract

We introduce a -dimensional system of charged harmonic oscillators in a magnetic field perturbed by a stochastic dynamics which conserves energy but not momentum. We study the thermal conductivity via the Green-Kubo formula, focusing on the asymptotic behavior of the Green-Kubo integral up to time (i.e., the integral of the correlation function of the total energy current). We employ the microcanonical measure to calculate the Green-Kubo formula in general dimension for uniformly charged oscillators. We also develop a method to calculate the Green-Kubo formula with the canonical measure for uniformly and alternately charged oscillators in dimension . We prove that the thermal conductivity diverges in dimension and while it remains finite in dimension . The Green--Kubo integral calculated with the microcanonical ensemble diverges as for uniformly charged oscillators in dimension , while it is known to diverge as without magnetic field. This is the first rigorous example of the new exponent in the asymptotic behavior for the Green-Kubo integral. We also demonstrate that our result provides the first rigorous example of a diverging thermal conductivity with vanishing sound speed. In addition, employing the canonical measure in the Green-Kubo formula, we prove that the Green-Kubo integral for uniformly and alternately charged oscillators respectively diverges as and . This means that the exponent depends not only on a non-zero magnetic field but also on the charge structure of oscillators.

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