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Journal Articles Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics Year : 2016

Dynamical mechanisms leading to equilibration in two-component gases

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Demonstrating how microscopic dynamics cause large systems to approach thermal equilibrium remains an elusive, longstanding, and actively-pursued goal of statistical mechanics. We identify here a dynamical mechanism for thermalization in a general class of two-component dynamical Lorentz gases, and prove that each component, even when maintained in a non-equilibrium state itself, can drive the other to a thermal state with a well-defined effective temperature.

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hal-01408060 , version 1 (03-12-2016)

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Paul E. Parris, Carlos Mejia-Monasterio. Dynamical mechanisms leading to equilibration in two-component gases. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2016. ⟨hal-01408060⟩

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