The generalized Langevin equation in harmonic potentials: anomalous diffusion and equipartition of energy

DOI10.1007/S00220-022-04378-XzbMATH Open1490.60287arXiv2103.05089OpenAlexW3135571009MaRDI QIDQ2149069FDOQ2149069

Authors: Gustavo Didier, Hung D. Nguyen 

Publication date: 28 June 2022

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the generalized Langevin equation (GLE) in a harmonic potential with power law decay memory. We study the anomalous diffusion of the particle's displacement and velocity. By comparison with the free particle situation in which the velocity was previously shown to be either diffusive or subdiffusive, we find that, when trapped in a harmonic potential, the particle's displacement may either be diffusive or superdiffusive. Under slightly stronger assumptions on the memory kernel, namely, for kernels related to the broad class of completely monotonic functions, we show that both the free particle and the harmonically bounded GLE satisfy the equipartition of energy condition. This generalizes previously known results for the GLE under particular kernel instances such as the generalized Rouse kernel or (exactly) a power law function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05089

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zbMATH Keywords

anomalous diffusionLangevin equationgeneralized Rouse kernel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Anomalous diffusion models (subdiffusion, superdiffusion, continuous-time random walks, etc.) (60K50)

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