Microscopic models for heat conduction

Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting

Microscopic models for heat conduction

  • Event time: 11:30am
  • Event date: 16th December 2015
  • Speaker: Ricardo Falcao (Federal University of São João del-Rei Brazil)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

The derivation of Fourier's law for heat conduction from a microscopic Hamiltonian dynamics is still an open problem from a fundamental point of view. In this scenario the study of hybrid models have the advantage to be mathematically tractable, but still related to realistic models. In this talk I will present an integral representation for the correlation functions of harmonic and anharmonic chains of oscillators with self-consistent reservoirs. This integral formalism is suitable for the study of the correlations time decay, as well as the correlations behavior in the steady state.