Thermalization of a Brownian particle via coupling to low-dimensional chaos
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- 2 February 1995
Abstract
It is shown that a paradigm of classical statistical mechanics --- the thermalization of a Brownian particle --- has a low-dimensional, deterministic analogue: when a heavy, slow system is coupled to fast deterministic chaos, the resultant forces drive the slow degrees of freedom toward a state of statistical equilibrium with the fast degrees. This illustrates how concepts useful in statistical mechanics may apply in situations where low-dimensional chaos exists.Keywords
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- Version 1, 1995-02-02, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review Letters, 74 (15), 2937.
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