title: Effect of interaction range on phonon relaxation in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam beta chain.
abstract: We study the effect of increasing the range of interactions on phonon relaxation in a chain of atoms with quartic anharmonicity. The study is motivated by recent numerical studies, showing that the value of the exponent alpha characterizing the divergence of conductivity with system size apparently depends on the presence of second neighbor couplings. We perform a quantum calculation of the wave-vector (q) dependent relaxation rate gamma(q) in the second order perturbation theory. The nonanalytic dependence of gamma(q) arises due to small-q singularity of the collision integral. We find that gamma(q) proportional to Aq(5/3) + Bq2. This gives rise to an asymptotic value alpha = 0.4, but the q2 terms lead to a higher apparent value of alpha at small sizes of the chain.
authors.affiliation: School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Santhosh
authors.forename: Deepak
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kumar