Chapter 3: Integrators Revisited Flashcards by Grant Cates

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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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