Musings on thermostats

Denis J. Evans; Debra J. Searles; Stephen R. Williams

doi:10.1063/1.3486092

Musings on thermostats

Denis J. Evans, Debra J. Searles, Stephen R. Williams

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In 2005, Bright gave numerical evidence that among the family of time reversible deterministic thermostats known as μ -thermostats, the conventional μ=1 thermostat proposed by Hoover and Evans is the only thermostat that is capable of generating an equilibrium state. Using the recently discovered relaxation theorem, we give a mathematical proof that this is true.

Original language	English
Article number	104106
Journal	Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume	133
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3486092
Publication status	Published - 14 Sept 2010

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