Chapter 3: Integrators Revisited Flashcards
1
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Lyapunov Instability
(Overview)
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- Consider two initial configurations r1(t ), r2(t )
- Lyapunov exponent λ comes from eigenvalue solutions for magnitude of difference of configurations

2
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Lyapunov Instability
(Take-Away)
A
- Molecular chaos very quickly “erases memory” of the previous microstate
- Fast temporal decorrelation
- easy generation of uncorrelated microstates
- good for thermodynamic smapling