Abstract
We obtain numerically the thermal conductivity of a quasi-one-dimensional classical chain of hard sphere particles as a function of the length of the chain, introducing a fresh model for this problem. The conductivity scales as a power law of the length over two decades, with an exponent very close to the analytical prediction of 1/3.
- Received 15 January 2003
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.68.010201
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