Tagged-particle statistics in single-file motion with random-acceleration and Langevin dynamics

DOI10.1007/S10955-019-02389-YzbMATH Open1439.60077arXiv1902.00058OpenAlexW2978380908WikidataQ127183971 ScholiaQ127183971MaRDI QIDQ2283146FDOQ2283146

Theodore W. Burkhardt

Publication date: 30 December 2019

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

Abstract: In the simplest model of single-file diffusion, $N$ point particles wander on a segment of the $x$ axis of length $L$, with hard core interactions, which prevent passing, and with overdamped Brownian dynamics, $lambdadotx=eta(t)$, where $eta(t)$ has the form of Gaussian white noise with zero mean. In 1965 Harris showed that in the limit $Noinfty$, $Loinfty$ with constant $ho=N/L$, the mean square displacement of a tagged particle grows subdiffusively, as $t^{1/2}$, for long times. Recently, it has been shown that the proportionality constants of the $t^{1/2}$ law for randomly-distributed initial positions of the particles and for equally-spaced initial positions are not the same, but have ratio $sqrt2$. In this paper we consider point particles on the $x$ axis, which collide elastically, and which move according to (i) random-acceleration dynamics $ddotx=eta(t)$ and (ii) Langevin dynamics $ddotx+lambdadotx=eta(t)$. The mean square displacement and mean-square velocity of a tagged particle are analyzed for both types of dynamics and for random and equally-spaced initial positions and Gaussian-distributed initial velocities. We also study tagged particle statistics, for both types of dynamics, in the spreading of a compact cluster of particles, with all of the particles initially at the origin.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00058

zbMATH Keywords

stochastic processrandom accelerationtracer diffusionsingle-file

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) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Dynamic continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C21)

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• Tagged particle motion in a clustered random walk system
• Random acceleration process under stochastic resetting

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