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DY: Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 46: Poster

DY 46.49: Poster

Thursday, March 30, 2006, 16:00–18:00, P1

Hydrodynamic Lyapunov modes and strong stochasticity threshold in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam models — •Hong-liu Yang and Günter Radons — Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, D-09107 Chemnitz

The strong stochasticity threshold (SST) is characterized by a crossover of the system dynamics from weak to strong chaos with increasing the energy density є. Correspondingly, the relaxation time to energy equipartition and the largest Lyapunov exponent exhibit different scaling behavior in the regimes below and beyond the threshold value. In this paper, we attempt to explore further changes in the energy density dependence of all Lyapunov exponents and of hydrodynamic Lyapunov modes (HLMs). In particular, we find that for the FPU-β and FPU-αβ model the scaling of the energy density dependence of all Lyapunov exponents shows similar changes at SST as those of the largest Lyapunov exponent. This supports the point of view that the crossover in the system dynamics at SST reflects a global change in the geometric structure of the phase space. Furthermore, the FPU-β model is used as an example to show that HLMs exist in Hamiltonian lattice models with continuous symmetries. Numerical simulations demonstrate that there exist a smooth transition in Lyapunov vectors corresponding to the crossover in Lyapunov exponents at SST. In particular, our numerical results indicate that strong chaos is essential for the appearance of HLMs.