Dynamical correlations of conserved quantities in the one-dimensional equal mass hard particle gas

Abstract

We study a gas of point particles with hard-core repulsion in one dimension where the particles move freely in-between elastic collisions. We prepare the system with a uniform density on the infinite line. The velocities {vi;i∈Z} of the particles are chosen independently from a thermal distribution. Using a mapping to the non-interacting gas, we analytically compute the equilibrium spatio-temporal correlations ⟨vmi(t)vnj(0)⟩ for arbitrary integers m,n . The analytical results are verified with microscopic simulations of the Hamiltonian dynamics. The correlation functions have ballistic scaling, as expected in an integrable model.