Theory of Brownian motion of a massive particle in spaces with curvature and torsion

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/31/34/003MaRDI QIDQ4259251zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. V. Shabanov, Hagen Kleinert

Publication date 23 August 1999

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9504121

zbMATH Keywords

diffusive propagationKubo and Fokker-Planck equationsnonholonomic mapping principleparticle propagation in crystals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other physical applications of random processes (60K40) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: We develop a theory of Brownian motion of a massive particle, including the effects of inertia (Kramers' problem), in spaces with curvature and torsion. This is done by invoking the recently discovered generalized equivalence principle, according to which the equations of motion of a point particle in such spaces can be obtained from the Newton equation in euclidean space by means of a nonholonomic mapping. By this principle, the known Langevin equation in euclidean space goes over into the correct Langevin equation in the Cartan space. This, in turn, serves to derive the Kubo and Fokker-Planck equations satisfied by the particle distribution as a function of time in such a space. The theory can be applied to classical diffusion processes in crystals with defects.

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