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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 120, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.144301
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- NSF [PO 1635866]
- ONR [N00014-17-1-2852]
- Progetto di Ricerca d'Ateneo [CSTO160004]
- Departments of Excellence - Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) [L.232/2016]
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We consider the original beta-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou system; numerical simulations and theoretical arguments suggest that, for a finite number of masses, a statistical equilibrium state is reached independently of the initial energy of the system. Using ensemble averages over initial conditions characterized by different Fourier random phases, we numerically estimate the time scale of equipartition and we find that for very small nonlinearity it matches the prediction based on exact wave-wave resonant interaction theory. We derive a simple formula for the nonlinear frequency broadening and show that when the phenomenon of overlap of frequencies takes place, a different scaling for the thermalization time scale is observed. Our result supports the idea that the Chirikov overlap criterion identifies a transition region between two different relaxation time scalings.
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