title: Musings on thermostats.
abstract: In 2005, Bright et al. gave numerical evidence that among the family of time reversible deterministic thermostats known as μ-thermostats, the conventional μ=1 thermostat proposed by Hoover and Evans is the only thermostat that is capable of generating an equilibrium state. Using the recently discovered relaxation theorem, we give a mathematical proof that this is true.
authors.affiliation: Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia.
authors.forename: Denis J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: Debra J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Searles
authors.forename: Stephen R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D013696:Temperature