Fluctuation-dissipation relation for systems with spatially varying friction

DOI10.1007/S10955-014-1045-4MaRDI QIDQ478404zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oded Farago, Niels Grønbech-Jensen

Publication date 3 December 2014

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4598

zbMATH Keywords

diffusioncomputer simulationsLangevin dynamicsfluctuation-dissipation theoremFick's lawItô-Stratonovich dilemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: When a particle diffuses in a medium with spatially dependent friction coefficient $alpha(r)$ at constant temperature $T$, it drifts toward the low friction end of the system even in the absence of any real physical force $f$. This phenomenon, which has been previously studied in the context of non-inertial Brownian dynamics, is termed "spurious drift", although the drift is real and stems from an inertial effect taking place at the short temporal scales. Here, we study the diffusion of particles in inhomogeneous media within the framework of the inertial Langevin equation. We demonstrate that the quantity which characterizes the dynamics with non-uniform $alpha(r)$ is not the displacement of the particle $Deltar=r-r^0$ (where $r^0$ is the initial position), but rather $DeltaA(r)=A(r)-A(r^0)$, where $A(r)$ is the primitive function of $alpha(r)$. We derive expressions relating the mean and variance of $DeltaA$ to $f$, $T$, and the duration of the dynamics $Deltat$. For a constant friction coefficient $alpha(r)=alpha$, these expressions reduce to the well known forms of the force-drift and fluctuation-dissipation relations. We introduce a very accurate method for Langevin dynamics simulations in systems with spatially varying $alpha(r)$, and use the method to validate the newly derived expressions.

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