A Macroscopic System with Undamped Periodic Compressional Oscillations
Por:
Calogero, F, Leyvraz, F
Publicada:
1 jun 2013
Resumen:
A class of macroscopic systems is described which have the remarkable feature that they can sustain undamped compressional radial oscillations. They consist of an arbitrary number of particles confined by a harmonic potential and interacting among themselves through conservative forces scaling as the inverse cube of distances. The radial oscillation leads to a variation of the thermodynamic quantities characterizing the system. The system therefore does not approach equilibrium, since the (macroscopic) amplitude of the oscillation does not decrease as time goes to infinity. The oscillation is harmonic and isochronous, that is, its frequency is fixed and independent of the initial condition. These results hold independently of the dimension of the system and are also valid in the quantal context. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York.
Filiaciones:
Leyvraz, F:
UNAM, Inst Ciencias Fis, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Ctr Int Ciencias, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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