Smith, S. T.; Onofrio, R. - In: The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and … 61 (2008) 3, pp. 271-275
We discuss thermalization of a test particle schematized as a harmonic oscillator and coupled to a Boltzmann heat bath of finite size and with a finite bandwidth for the frequencies of its particles. We find that complete thermalization only occurs when the test particle frequency is within a...