Chapter 3: Integrators Revisited Flashcards

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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
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Lyapunov Instability

(Take-Away)

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  • Molecular chaos very quickly “erases memory” of the previous microstate
  • Fast temporal decorrelation
    • easy generation of uncorrelated microstates
    • good for thermodynamic smapling
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