Dispersionless transport in washboard potentials revisited

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AC57D1MaRDI QIDQ5049948zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. G. Marchenko, V. Yu Aksenova, I. I. Marchenko, A. V. Zhiglo

Publication date 14 November 2022

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05381

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motiondriven diffusive systemsLangevin equationnonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamicsstochastic analysis methodstransport processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffusion processes (60J60) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41)

Abstract: We reassess the "dispersionless transport regime" of Brownian particles in tilted periodic potentials. We show that the particles exhibit normal diffusive motion right after transitioning into the running state dragged by the constant bias force. No special transient dynamics appears, contrary to conjectures in the previous studies. The observed flat segment in the dispersion evolution curve is solely due to the broad spatial distribution of particles formed in the early superdiffusion stage. We quantitatively describe the whole evolution of the distribution function during superdiffusion and the transition to the normal diffusion that follows, in the framework of the 2-well potential in the velocity space model. We show that the superdiffusion exponent is $alpha=3$. Estimate of the duration of the ostensible "dispersionless regime" is provided. It is shown to diverge exponentially as the temperature decreases to zero.

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