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Normal transport properties in a metastable stationary state for a classical particle coupled to a non-Ohmic bath

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We study the Hamiltonian motion of an ensemble of unconfined classical particles driven by an external field F through a translationally-invariant, thermal array of monochromatic Einstein oscillators. The system does not sustain a stationary state, because the oscillators cannot effectively absorb the energy of high speed particles. We nonetheless show that the system has at all positive temperatures a well-defined low-field mobility μ over macroscopic time scales of order exp ( c/ F), during which it finds itself in a metastable stationary state. The mobility is independent of F at low fields, and related to the zero-field diffusion constant D through the Einstein relation. The system therefore exhibits normal transport even though the bath obviously has a discrete frequency spectrum (it is simply monochromatic) and is therefore highly non-Ohmic. Such features are usually associated with anomalous transport properties.

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hal-00768623 , version 1 (22-12-2012)

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Pauline Lafitte, Paul Parris, Stephan de Bievre. Normal transport properties in a metastable stationary state for a classical particle coupled to a non-Ohmic bath. Journal of Statistical Physics, 2008, 132, pp.863-879. ⟨10.1007/s10955-008-9590-3⟩. ⟨hal-00768623⟩
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