Probability distribution function for reorientations in Maier-Saupe potential

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2016.02.022MaRDI QIDQ1619460zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. E. Sitnitsky

Publication date 13 November 2018

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03439

zbMATH Keywords

diffusionrotational motionconfluent Heun's function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: Exact analytic solution for the probability distribution function of the non-inertial rotational diffusion equation, i.e., of the Smoluchowski one, in a symmetric Maier-Saupe uniaxial potential of mean torque is obtained via the confluent Heun's function. Both the ordinary Maier-Saupe potential and the double-well one with variable barrier width are considered. Thus, the present article substantially extends the scope of the potentials amenable to the treatment by reducing Smoluchowski equation to the confluent Heun's one. The solution is uniformly valid for any barrier height. We use it for the calculation of the mean first passage time. Also the higher eigenvalues for the relaxation decay modes in the case of ordinary Maier-Saupe potential are calculated. The results obtained are in full agreement with those of the approach developed by Coffey, Kalmykov, D'ejardin and their coauthors in the whole range of barrier heights.

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