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We study the Hamiltonian motion of an ensemble of unconfined classical particles driven by an external field F through a translationally-invariant, thermal array of monochromatic Einstein oscillators. The system does not sustain a stationary state, because the oscillators cannot effectively absorb the energy of high speed particles. We nonetheless show that the system has at all positive temperatures a well-defined low-field mobility μ over macroscopic time scales of order exp (c/F), during which it finds itself in a metastable stationary state. The mobility is independent of F at low fields, and related to the zero-field diffusion constant D through the Einstein relation. The system therefore exhibits normal transport even though the bath obviously has a discrete frequency spectrum (it is simply monochromatic) and is therefore highly non-Ohmic. Such features are usually associated with anomalous transport properties.
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Lafitte, P., Parris, P.E. & De Bièvre, S. Normal Transport Properties in a Metastable Stationary State for a Classical Particle Coupled to a Non-Ohmic Bath. J Stat Phys 132, 863–879 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-008-9590-3
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