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Anomalous conduction in one dimensional chains: a wave turbulence approach.

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September 20, 2021
Abstract
Heat conduction in 3D macroscopic solids is in general well described by the Fourier's law. However, low dimensional systems, like for example nanotubes, may be characterized by a conductivity that is size-dependent. This phenomena, known as anomalous conduction, has been widely studied in one dimensional chains like FPUT, mostly using deterministic simulations of the microscopic model. Here, I will present a mesoscopic approach based on the wave turbulence theory and give the evidence, through extensive numerical simulations and theoretical arguments, that the anomalous conduction is the result of the presence of long waves that rapidly propagate from one thermostat to the other without interacting with other modes. I will also show that the scaling of the conductivity with the length of the chain obtained from the mesoscopic approach is consistent with the one obtained from microscopic simulations.