Brownian motion on a sphere: distribution of solid angles

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/34/302MaRDI QIDQ4520685zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. M. G. Krishna, Joseph Samuel, Supurna Sinha

Publication date 13 December 2000

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/0005345

zbMATH Keywords

diffusing particlesdiffusion of Brownian particlesdistribution of geometric phasesdistribution of solid anglessurface of a spheretwo-state quantum systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41)

Abstract: We study the diffusion of Brownian particles on the surface of a sphere and compute the distribution of solid angles enclosed by the diffusing particles. This function describes the distribution of geometric phases in two state quantum systems (or polarised light) undergoing random evolution. Our results are also relevant to recent experiments which observe the Brownian motion of molecules on curved surfaces like micelles and biological membranes. Our theoretical analysis agrees well with the results of computer experiments.

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