Kramers' escape rate problem within a non-Markovian description

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2019.168045MaRDI QIDQ2305752zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benjamin Schüller, Alex Meistrenko, Hendrik van Hees, Zhe Xu, Carsten Greiner

Publication date 16 March 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09652

zbMATH Keywords

colored noisenon-Markovian dynamicsgeneralized Langevin equationKramers' escape rate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We compare the thermal escape rates of a Brownian particle, initially trapped into one of the two wells of an asymmetric double-well potential, for thermal Markovian and non-Markovian noise. The Markovian treatment of this problem goes originally back to the studies of Kramers in 1940 and is therefore often referred to as "Kramers's escape rate problem". We solve the generalized Langevin equation for the trajectories of the particles numerically and analytically for both limiting cases, Markovian and non-Markovian thermal noise. We compute the escape rate and work out the fundamental differences arising from finite correlation times of the thermal noise.

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