Kramers' escape rate problem within a non-Markovian description

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2019.168045zbMATH Open1432.82020arXiv1905.09652OpenAlexW2945944334MaRDI QIDQ2305752FDOQ2305752

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)

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.

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

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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)

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