Rotational Brownian motion: trajectory, reversibility and stochastic entropy

DOI10.1007/S10955-017-1816-9MaRDI QIDQ2410486zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Swarnali Bandopadhyay, Debasish Chaudhuri, A. M. Jayannavar

Publication date 18 October 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05008

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motionfluctuation theoremmacrospin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84) Brownian motion (60J65) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40)

Abstract: We consider rotational diffusion for two systems - a macrospin under external magnetic field, and a particle diffusing on the surface of a sphere under external torque. Microstates in the two cases transform differently under time-reversal. This results in Clausius like dependence of stochastic entropy production (EP) for macrospins, and an excess EP for diffusion of particles on sphere. The total EP in both the cases obey fluctuation theorems. For macrospins, we derive analytical expression for probability distribution of total EP in the adiabatic limit. Numerical simulations show that the distribution functions of EP agree well with theoretical predictions.

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