Abstract
Demonstrating how microscopic dynamics cause large systems to approach thermal equilibrium remains an elusive, longstanding, and actively pursued goal of statistical mechanics. We identify here a dynamical mechanism for thermalization in a general class of two-component dynamical Lorentz gases and prove that each component, even when maintained in a nonequilibrium state itself, can drive the other to a thermal state with a well-defined effective temperature.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics |
| Volume | 93 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 1 2016 |
Keywords
- Condensed matter physics
- Dynamical mechanisms
- Effective temperature
- General class
- Microscopic dynamics
- Nonequilibrium state
- Physics
- Statistical mechanics
- Thermal equilibriums
- Thermal state
- Thermalization
Disciplines
- Physics
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