Mean-field treatment of the many-body Fokker–Planck equation

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/50/305zbMATH Open0993.82036arXivcond-mat/0106101OpenAlexW2052355005MaRDI QIDQ4533787FDOQ4533787

Authors: Nicolas Martzel, Claude Aslangul 

Publication date: 11 June 2002

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

Abstract: We review some properties of the stationary states of the Fokker - Planck equation for N interacting particles within a mean field approximation, which yields a non-linear integrodifferential equation for the particle density. Analytical results show that for attractive long range potentials the steady state is always a precipitate containing one cluster of small size. For arbitrary potential, linear stability analysis allows to state the conditions under which the uniform equilibrium state is unstable against small perturbations and, via the Einstein relation, to define a critical temperature Tc separating two phases, uniform and precipitate. The corresponding phase diagram turns out to be strongly dependent on the pair-potential. In addition, numerical calculations reveal that the transition is hysteretic. We finally discuss the dynamics of relaxation for the uniform state suddenly cooled below Tc.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0106101

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zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equationphase diagraminteracting particlesmean-field approximationattractive long-range potentials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35)

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