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Session D40 - Poster Session I.
POSTER session, Monday afternoon, March 12
Exhibit Hall, Washington State Convention Center

[D40.010] Multiscaling in Inelastic Collisions

Eli Ben-Naim (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Paul L. Krapivsky (Department of Physics, Boston University)

We study relaxation properties of two-body inelastic collisions processes on the mean-field level. We show that this process exhibits multiscaling asymptotic behavior as the underlying distribution is characterized by an infinite set of nontrivial exponents. These nonequilibrium relaxation time scales are found to be closely related to steady state cumulants of the velocity distribution in the presence of noise. This behavior can be viewed as generalized fluctuation-dissipation relations.

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