Observation of Ballistic Thermal Transport in a Nonintegrable Classical Many-Body System
Abstract: We report, for the first time, the observation of ballistic thermal transport in a nonintegrable classical many-body system. This claim is substantiated by appropriately incorporating long-range interactions into the system, which exhibits all characteristic hallmarks of ballistic heat transport, including the presence of equilibrium dynamical correlations exhibiting ballistic scaling, a size-independent energy current and a flat bulk temperature profile. These findings hold true for large system sizes (long times), indicating that ballistic heat transport is valid in the thermodynamic limit. The underlying mechanism is attributed to the presence of traveling discrete breathers in the relevant nonintegrabel systems surpassing conventional solitons in a nonlinear integrable Toda system.
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- Born-von Karman boundary condition, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born-von_Karman_boundary_condition.
- See (i) the definition of total heat current and (ii) movies of excitation dynamics in Supplemental Material.
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