Stationary states and fractional dynamics in systems with long-range interactions

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Published 26 March 2010 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation T. L. Van Den Berg et al 2010 EPL 89 50010 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/89/50010

0295-5075/89/5/50010

Abstract

The dynamics of many-body Hamiltonian systems with long-range interactions is studied, in the context of the so-called α-HMF model. Building on the analogy with the related mean-field model, we construct stationary states of the α-HMF model for which the spatial organization satisfies a fractional equation. At variance, the microscopic dynamics turns out to be regular and explicitly known. As a consequence, dynamical regularity is achieved at the price of strong spatial complexity, namely a microscopic inhomogeneity which locally displays scale invariance.

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10.1209/0295-5075/89/50010