The 2017 SNOOK PRIZES in Computational Statistical Mechanics
Ruby Valley Research Institute
Highway Contract 60, Box 601, Ruby Valley, Nevada 89833, USA
E-mail: hooverwilliam@yahoo.com
Received:
Received: 30 March 2018; published online: 30 May 2018
DOI: 10.12921/cmst.2018.0000024
Abstract:
The 2017 Snook Prize has been awarded to Kenichiro Aoki for his exploration of chaos in Hamiltonian φ4 models. His work addresses symmetries, thermalization, and Lyapunov instabilities in few-particle dynamical systems. A companion paper by Timo Hofmann and Jochen Merker is devoted to the exploration of generalized Hénon-Heiles models and has been selected for Honorable Mention in the Snook-Prize competition.
Key words:
Lyapunov instability, reversibility, second law of thermodynamics, time-symmetry breaking
References:
[1] Wm. G. Hoover and C. G. Hoover, Instantaneous Pairing of
Lyapunov Exponents in Chaotic Hamiltonian Dynamics and the
2017 Ian Snook Prizes, Computational Methods in Science and
Technology 23 (1), 73-79 (2017).
[2] K. Aoki, Symmetry, Chaos, and Temperature in the
One-Dimensional Lattice φ4 Theory, CMST 24(2), 83–95 (2018).
[3] K. Aoki and D. Kusnezov, Lyapunov Exponents and the Exten-
sivity of Dimensional Loss for Systems in Thermal Gradients,
Physical Review E 68, 056204 (2003).
[4] Wm. G. Hoover and C. G. Hoover, Microscopic and Macro-
scopic Simulation Techniques – Kharagpur Lectures (World Sci-
entific Publishers, Singapore, 2018), Section 10.8.
[5] T. Hofmann, J. Merker, On Local Lyapunov Exponents
of Chaotic Hamiltonian Systems, CMST 24(2), 97–111 (2018).
The 2017 Snook Prize has been awarded to Kenichiro Aoki for his exploration of chaos in Hamiltonian φ4 models. His work addresses symmetries, thermalization, and Lyapunov instabilities in few-particle dynamical systems. A companion paper by Timo Hofmann and Jochen Merker is devoted to the exploration of generalized Hénon-Heiles models and has been selected for Honorable Mention in the Snook-Prize competition.
Key words:
Lyapunov instability, reversibility, second law of thermodynamics, time-symmetry breaking
References:
[1] Wm. G. Hoover and C. G. Hoover, Instantaneous Pairing of
Lyapunov Exponents in Chaotic Hamiltonian Dynamics and the
2017 Ian Snook Prizes, Computational Methods in Science and
Technology 23 (1), 73-79 (2017).
[2] K. Aoki, Symmetry, Chaos, and Temperature in the
One-Dimensional Lattice φ4 Theory, CMST 24(2), 83–95 (2018).
[3] K. Aoki and D. Kusnezov, Lyapunov Exponents and the Exten-
sivity of Dimensional Loss for Systems in Thermal Gradients,
Physical Review E 68, 056204 (2003).
[4] Wm. G. Hoover and C. G. Hoover, Microscopic and Macro-
scopic Simulation Techniques – Kharagpur Lectures (World Sci-
entific Publishers, Singapore, 2018), Section 10.8.
[5] T. Hofmann, J. Merker, On Local Lyapunov Exponents
of Chaotic Hamiltonian Systems, CMST 24(2), 97–111 (2018).