Existence and uniqueness of an invariant measure for a chain of oscillators in contact with two heat baths

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1076-1092

  Carmona, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Hamiltonian chain; Harmonic oscillator; Heat bath; Invariant measure

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ENTROPY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; MEASUREMENT THEORY;

HAMILTONIAN CHAINS; HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; HEAT BATH; INVARIANT MEASURE;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 34347326282     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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