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Analysis and experiments for a computational model of a heat bath

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UNSPECIFIED (1999) Analysis and experiments for a computational model of a heat bath. JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS, 97 (3-4). pp. 687-723. ISSN 0022-4715.

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Abstract

A question of some interest in computational statistical mechanics is whether macroscopic quantities can be accurately computed without detailed resolution of the fastest scales in the problem. To address this question a simple model for a distinguished particle immersed in a heat bath is studied (due to Ford and Kac). The model yields a Hamiltonian system of dimension 2N + 2 for the distinguished particle and the degrees of freedom describing the bath. It is proven that, in the limit of an infinite number of particles in the heat bath (N --> infinity), the motion of the distinguished particle is governed by a stochastic differential equation (SDE) of dimension 2. Numerical experiments are then conducted on the Hamiltonian system of dimension 2N + 2 (N >> 1) to investigate whether the motion of the distinguished particle is accurately computed (i.e., whether it is close to the solution of the SDE) when the time step is small relative to the natural time scale of the distinguished particle, but the product of the fastest frequency in the heat bath and the time step is not small-the underresolved regime in which many computations are performed. It is shown that certain methods accurately compute the limiting behavior of the distinguished particle, while others do not. Those that do not are shown to compute a different, incorrect. macroscopic limit.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Journal or Publication Title: JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS
Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBL
ISSN: 0022-4715
Official Date: November 1999
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November 1999UNSPECIFIED
Volume: 97
Number: 3-4
Number of Pages: 37
Page Range: pp. 687-723
Publication Status: Published

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