Authors
Daniel Alonso, Roberto Artuso, Giulio Casati, Italo Guarneri
Publication date
1999/3/1
Journal
Physical review letters
Volume
82
Issue
9
Pages
1859
Publisher
American Physical Society
Description
We present a series of numerical and analytical computations on heat conduction for a strongly chaotic system—the Lorentz gas. Heat conduction is characterized by nontrivial features: While the heat conductivity is well defined in the thermodynamic limit, a linear gradient appears only for quite small temperature differences. The key dynamical feature inducing such a behavior is recognized as deterministic diffusion (along transport direction) which is usually associated to full hyperbolicity.
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D Alonso, R Artuso, G Casati, I Guarneri - Physical review letters, 1999