Wednesday, April 4, 2012

1204.0312 (Wm. G. Hoover)

Another Hamiltonian "Thermostat" -- Comment on arXiv 1203.5968    [PDF]

Wm. G. Hoover
Campisi, Zhan, Talkner, and Haenggi state, in promoting a new logarithmic computational thermostat [arXiv 1203.5968], that (thermostated) Nose-Hoover mechanics is not Hamiltonian. We point out here that Dettmann clearly showed the Hamiltonian nature of Nose-Hoover mechanics. The trajectories {q(t)} generated by Dettmann's Hamiltonian are identical to those generated by Nose-Hoover mechanics.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0312

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