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Graziano Amati1, Tanja Schilling1
1Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Abstract:
We study the statistics and short-time dynamics of the classical and the quantum Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain in the thermal equilibrium. We analyze the distributions of single-particle configurations by integrating out the rest of the system. At low temperatures, we observe a systematic increase in the mobility of the chain when transitioning from classical to quantum mechanics due to zero-point energy effects. We analyze the consequences of quantum dispersion on the dynamics at short times of configurational correlation functions.
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