Energy relaxation in a? 4 with long range interactions

We investigate the influence of long range interactions on the relaxation behaviour of a lattice model with an on-site potential ofϕ 4-type and “infinite” range harmonic interactions. For finite number of particlesN, it is shown that the autocorrelation functions of the fluctuations of the one-particle energiesE n(t) decays exponentially. The corresponding relaxation time τ is proportional toN and is given by τ(T, N) =Nτ0(T). The temperature dependent time scale τ0 can explicitly be related to the dynamics of a one-particle correlator of the noninteracting system. The results are derived using Mori-Zwanzig projection formalism. The corresponding memory kernel is calculated within a mode cou…