Logarithmic oscillator thermostat: Difference between revisions
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Having an infinite heat capacity is an ideal feature for a thermostat. | Having an infinite heat capacity is an ideal feature for a thermostat. | ||
==Practical applicability== | ==Practical applicability== | ||
<ref>[http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3478 Marc Meléndez Schofield "On the logarithmic oscillator as a thermostat", arXiv:1205.3478v1 (cond-mat.stat-mech) 15 May (2012)]</ref> | The averages considered above make sense only for times greater than the period of the logarithmic oscillator but, because of the logarithmic shape of the potential, the period increases proportionally to the exponential of the total energy<ref>[http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3478 Marc Meléndez Schofield "On the logarithmic oscillator as a thermostat", arXiv:1205.3478v1 (cond-mat.stat-mech) 15 May (2012)]</ref>. That is to say, if <math>H = E</math>, then the period of oscillation <math>t_{per}</math> increases with <math>E</math> according to <math>t_{per} \propto b e^{E/T}</math>. Furthermore, the maximum excursions of the oscillator also move outwards exponentially, <math>x_{max} \propto be^{E/T}</math>. This exponential scaling of time and length scales severely limits the practical applicability of the logarithmic thermostat <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.028901 Marc Meléndez, Wm. G. Hoover, and Pep Español "Comment on “Logarithmic Oscillators: Ideal Hamiltonian Thermostats”", Physical Review Letters '''110''' 028901 (2013)]</ref>. Campisi ''et al.'' have defended that such a thermostat could work when interacting weakly with small atomic clusters <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.028902 Michele Campisi, Fei Zhan, Peter Talkner, and Peter Hänggi "Campisi et al. Reply", Physical Review Letters '''110''' 028902 (2013)]</ref>, but further research has shown that the logarithmic oscillator does not generally behave as a thermostat even in that setting<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.021301 Daniel Sponseller and Estela Blaisten-Barojas "Failure of logarithmic oscillators to serve as a thermostat for small atomic clusters", Physical Review E '''89''' 021301(R) (2014)]</ref>. In addition, when two logarithmic oscillators with different values of <math>T</math> interact weakly with a system, they fail to promote heat flow<ref>[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2013.05.010 "Hamiltonian thermostats fail to promote heat flow" Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, '''18''', 12, 3365-3372 December (2013)]</ref> | ||
<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.028901 Marc Meléndez, Wm. G. Hoover, and Pep Español "Comment on “Logarithmic Oscillators: Ideal Hamiltonian Thermostats”", Physical Review Letters '''110''' 028901 (2013)]</ref> | <ref>[https://dx.doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41598-017-03694-w "Violation of the virial theorem and generalized equipartition theorem for logarithmic oscillators serving as a thermostat", Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 3460 14 June (2017)]</ref>. | ||
<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.028902 Michele Campisi, Fei Zhan, Peter Talkner, and Peter Hänggi "Campisi et al. Reply", Physical Review Letters '''110''' 028902 (2013)]</ref> | |||
<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.021301 Daniel Sponseller and Estela Blaisten-Barojas "Failure of logarithmic oscillators to serve as a thermostat for small atomic clusters", Physical Review E '''89''' 021301(R) (2014)]</ref> | |||
<ref>[https://dx.doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41598-017-03694-w "Violation of the virial theorem and generalized equipartition theorem for logarithmic oscillators serving as a thermostat", Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 3460]</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== |
Revision as of 13:04, 11 July 2017
The Logarithmic oscillator [1] in one dimension is given by (Eq. 2):
where is the position of the logarithmic oscillator, is its linear momentum, and represents its mass. is the desired temperature of the thermostat, and sets a length-scale.
As a thermostat
From the Virial theorem
one obtains
- .
This implies that all expectation values of the trajectories correspond to the very same temperature of the thermostat, irrespective of the internal energy. In other words,
this implies that the heat capacity becomes
Having an infinite heat capacity is an ideal feature for a thermostat.
Practical applicability
The averages considered above make sense only for times greater than the period of the logarithmic oscillator but, because of the logarithmic shape of the potential, the period increases proportionally to the exponential of the total energy[2]. That is to say, if , then the period of oscillation increases with according to . Furthermore, the maximum excursions of the oscillator also move outwards exponentially, . This exponential scaling of time and length scales severely limits the practical applicability of the logarithmic thermostat [3]. Campisi et al. have defended that such a thermostat could work when interacting weakly with small atomic clusters [4], but further research has shown that the logarithmic oscillator does not generally behave as a thermostat even in that setting[5]. In addition, when two logarithmic oscillators with different values of interact weakly with a system, they fail to promote heat flow[6] [7].
References
- ↑ Michele Campisi, Fei Zhan, Peter Talkner, and Peter Hänggi "Logarithmic Oscillators: Ideal Hamiltonian Thermostats", Physical Review Letters 108 250601 (2012)
- ↑ Marc Meléndez Schofield "On the logarithmic oscillator as a thermostat", arXiv:1205.3478v1 (cond-mat.stat-mech) 15 May (2012)
- ↑ Marc Meléndez, Wm. G. Hoover, and Pep Español "Comment on “Logarithmic Oscillators: Ideal Hamiltonian Thermostats”", Physical Review Letters 110 028901 (2013)
- ↑ Michele Campisi, Fei Zhan, Peter Talkner, and Peter Hänggi "Campisi et al. Reply", Physical Review Letters 110 028902 (2013)
- ↑ Daniel Sponseller and Estela Blaisten-Barojas "Failure of logarithmic oscillators to serve as a thermostat for small atomic clusters", Physical Review E 89 021301(R) (2014)
- ↑ "Hamiltonian thermostats fail to promote heat flow" Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 18, 12, 3365-3372 December (2013)
- ↑ "Violation of the virial theorem and generalized equipartition theorem for logarithmic oscillators serving as a thermostat", Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 3460 14 June (2017)
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