New Mechanisms for Lack of Equipartition of Energy

Àlex Haro; Rafael de la Llave

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1859

New Mechanisms for Lack of Equipartition of Energy

Àlex Haro and Rafael de la Llave

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1859 – Published 28 August 2000

Abstract

We describe several mechanisms that prevent equipartition of energy in mechanical systems. In certain regimes, we present a quantitative prediction of the relative abundance of orbits exhibiting these mechanisms. This quantitative prediction is confirmed in numerical experiments.

Received 14 February 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1859

Authors & Affiliations

Àlex Haro^* and Rafael de la Llave^†

Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712

^*Permanent address: Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada i Anàlisi, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via 585, 08007 Barcelona, Spain. Email address haro@math.utexas.edu
^†Email address: llave@math.utexas.edu