Effective drift and diffusivity in non-Gaussian random gradient flows

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/31/5/005zbMATH Open0942.82017arXivcond-mat/9707069OpenAlexW3100163476MaRDI QIDQ4486372FDOQ4486372

Authors: I. T. Drummond, R. R. Horgan, Constantino A. da Silva Santos 

Publication date: 24 August 2000

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

Abstract: We study the long-range effective drift and diffusivity of a particle in a random medium moving subject to a given molecular diffusivity and a local drift. The local drift models the effect of a random electrostatic field on a neutral but polarizable molecule. Although the electrostatic field is assumed to obey Gaussian statistics the induced statistics of the drift velocity field are non-Gaussian. We show that a four-loop perturbation theory calculation of the effective diffusivity is in rather good agreement with the outcome of a numerical simulation for a reasonable range of the disorder parameter. We also measure the effective drift in our simulation and confirm the validity of the ``Einstein relation that expresses the equality of the renormalization factors, induced by the random medium, for the effective drift and effective diffusivity, relative to their molecular values. The Einstein relation has previously only been confirmed for Gaussian random drift fields. The simulation result, for our non-Gaussian drift model, is consistent with a previous theoretical analysis showing the Einstein relation should remain true, independently of the precise character of the statistics of the drift velocity field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9707069

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zbMATH Keywords

diffusion equationrenormalizationEinstein relationRunge-Kutta schemeperturbation expansiondiffusivityGaussian statisticsfour-loop perturbationlong-range effective driftnon-Gaussian drift model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Dynamic renormalization group methods applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C28)

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