We study the Lyapunov instability of a three-dimensional fluid composed of rigid diatomic molecules by molecular dynamics simulation. We use center-of-mass coordinates and angular variables for the configurational space variables. The spectra of Lyapunov exponents are obtained for 32 rigid diatomic molecules interacting through the Weeks-Chandler-Andersen potential for various bond lengths and densities. We show the general trends and characteristic features of the spectra of the Lyapunov exponents, and discuss the different contributions between translational and rotational degrees of freedom depending on the density and the bond length from the calculation of the projection of a certain subspace of the tangent space vectors.
Molecular dynamics simulations were performed for soft- and hard-sphere systems, for number densities ranging from 0.5 to 1.0, and the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy (KS entropy) and self-diffusion coefficients were calculated. It is found that the KS entropy, when expressed in terms of average collision frequency, is uniquely related to the self-diffusion coefficient by a simple scaling law. The dependence of the KS entropy on average collision frequency and number density was also explored. Numerical results show that the scaling laws proposed by Dzugutov, and by Beijeren, Dorfman, Posch, and Dellago, can be applied to both soft- and hard-sphere systems by changing to more generalized forms.
The relationship between the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, h(KS) and the self-diffusion coefficient D is studied for two classical simple fluid systems with purely repulsive potentials (one system with a Wayne-Chandler-Anderson potential and the other with a hard-sphere potential). Numerical simulation data for h(KS) and D, normalized by the average collision frequency nu and the diameter of the particle sigma as natural units of time and distance, reveal that, in the region spanning from normal liquid up to near solidification (0.50< or =rho< or =0.93), the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy has a power law dependeney on the self-diffusion coefficient of the form h(KS)/nu proportional, variant (D/sigma(2)nu)(eta), in which eta is independent of density and temperature.
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