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Area of Science:

  • Physics
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Statistical Mechanics

Background:

  • The study investigates thermal equilibration in a 1D harmonic crystal immersed in a viscous medium.
  • Initially, the system is far from thermal equilibrium with zero displacements and random velocities.
  • In conservative systems, kinetic and potential energies oscillate and stabilize at half the initial kinetic energy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the features of the unsteady thermal equilibration process in a damped harmonic crystal.
  • To understand how external damping affects the energy dynamics compared to conservative systems.
  • To determine the long-time asymptotic behavior of kinetic and potential energies.

Main Methods:

  • Analytical investigation of the system's dynamics.
  • Modeling the viscous environment using damping.
  • Numerical calculations to verify analytical results.

Main Results:

  • The presence of damping introduces a two-stage energy decay process.
  • Stage 1 (underdamped): Oscillations decay exponentially.
  • Stage 2 (always present): Oscillations vanish, leading to power-law decay (t^{-3/2} for potential energy, t^{-5/2} for kinetic energy).

Conclusions:

  • External damping qualitatively alters thermal equilibration dynamics.
  • At large times, potential energy dominates over kinetic energy.
  • Analytical and numerical findings are consistent.