title: Thermal heat reservoirs via Gauss' principle of least constraint; Dissipation, chaos, and phase-space dimensionality loss in one-dimensional chains.
abstract: We use Gauss' principle of least constraint to impose different kinetic temperatures on the two halves of a periodic one-dimensional chain. The thermodynamic result is heat flow, as predicted by the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The statistical-mechanical result can be either a phase-space limit cycle or a strange attractor, depending on the chain length and the size of the temperature difference. We document the sensitivity of the Lyapunov spectrum and the underlying phase-space topology by varying the chain length and the size of the kinetic-temperature difference.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Livermore, California 94550University of Vienna, Vienna A-1090, AustriaUniversity of California, Livermore, California 94550.
authors.forename: William G.
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Hoover
authors.forename: Harald A.
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Posch
authors.forename: Luke W.
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Campbell