{
  "id": "cond-mat/9704213",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1997-04-25T17:30:31.000Z",
  "updated": "1997-04-25T17:30:31.000Z",
  "title": "On the approach to equilibrium of an Hamiltonian chain of anharmonic oscillators",
  "authors": [
    "Giorgio Parisi"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, 5 figures",
  "doi": "10.1209/epl/i1997-00471-9",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "In this note we study the approach to equilibrium of a chain of anharmonic oscillators. We find indications that a sufficiently large system always relaxes to the usual equilibrium distribution. There is no sign of an ergodicity threshold. The time however to arrive to equilibrium diverges when $g \\to 0$, $g$ being the anharmonicity.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1997-04-25T17:30:31.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "anharmonic oscillators",
      "hamiltonian chain",
      "usual equilibrium distribution",
      "equilibrium diverges",
      "ergodicity threshold"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}