Unusual equilibration of a particle in a potential with a thermal wall

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AA9683MaRDI QIDQ3302894zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Deepak Bhat, Sanjib Sabhapandit, Anupam Kundu, Abhishek Dhar

Publication date 11 August 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00814

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: We consider a particle in a one-dimensional box of length $L$ with a Maxwell bath at one end and a reflecting wall at the other end. Using a renewal approach, as well as directly solving the master equation, we show that the system exhibits a slow power law relaxation with a logarithmic correction towards the final equilibrium state. We extend the renewal approach to a class of confining potentials of the form $U(x)propto{x}^{a}lpha$, $x>0$, where we find that the relaxation is $sim{t}^{-(alpha+2)/(alpha-2)}$ for $alpha>2$, with a logarithmic correction when $(alpha+2)/(alpha-2)$ is an integer. For $alpha<2$ the relaxation is exponential. Interestingly for $alpha=2$ (harmonic potential) the localised bath can not equilibrate the particle.

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