Diffusion in a bistable potential at intermediate and high friction

DOI10.1007/BF01015725MaRDI QIDQ1072259zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. F. Gouyet, Armin Bunde

Publication date 1984

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01015725

zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck-Klein-Kramers equationinverse friction expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05)

Review text

We study the motion of a Brownian particle in a bistable potential for intermediate and high-friction \(\gamma\). We perform a high-friction expansion of the distribution function P(v,x,t) in velocity and space. We show (for arbitrary potential) that the expansion coefficients obey simple recursion relations, which allow them to be calculated easily.

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