Prethermalization in a classical phonon field: Slow relaxation of the number of phonons
We investigate the emergence of an astonishingly long prethermal plateau in a classical phonon field, here, a harmonic chain with on-site pinning. Integrability is broken by a weak anharmonic on-site potential with strength λ. In the small λ limit, the approach to equilibrium of a translation invari...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2020-05-01
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Series: | Physical Review Research |
Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.022034 |