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JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS
Volume 109, Issue 3-4, Pages 765-776Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020474901341
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local Lyapunov exponents; Lyapunov modes; hard disk fluid; soft disk fluid
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The dynamical instability of many-body systems can best be characterized through the local Lyapunov spectrum {lambda}, its associated eigenvectors {delta}, and the time-averaged spectrum {} P. Each local Lyapunov exponent l describes the degree of instability associated with a well-defined direction given by the associated unit vector delta-in the full many-body phase space. For a variety of hard-particle systems it is by now well-established that several of the d vectors, all with relatively-small values of the time-averaged exponent correspond to quite well-defined long-wavelength ' ' modes.' ' We investigate soft particles from the same viewpoint here, and find no convincing evidence for corresponding modes. The situation is similar no firm evidence for modes in a simple two-dimensional lattice-rotor model. We believe that these differences are related to the form of the time-averaged Lyapunov spectrum near = 0.
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