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Universality of anomalous one-dimensional heat conductivity

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2003 Dec;68(6 Pt 2):067102. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.067102. Epub 2003 Dec 18.

Abstract

In one and two dimensions, transport coefficients may diverge in the thermodynamic limit due to long-time correlation of the corresponding currents. The effective asymptotic behavior is addressed with reference to the problem of heat transport in one-dimensional crystals, modeled by chains of classical nonlinear oscillators. Extensive accurate equilibrium and nonequilibrium numerical simulations confirm that the finite-size thermal conductivity diverges with system size L as kappa proportional to L alpha. However, the exponent alpha deviates systematically from the theoretical prediction alpha=1/3 proposed in a recent paper [O. Narayan and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 200601 (2002)].