Testing the energy diffusion approximation for the escape of a Brownian particle from a potential pocket

DOI10.1016/J.CJPH.2020.08.002MaRDI QIDQ6129102zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. I. Gontcha, M. V. Chushnyakova

Publication date 16 April 2024

Published in Chinese Journal of Physics (Taipei) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03940

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motionmetastable stateLangevin equationsthermally activated decay

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65Cxx) Time-dependent statistical mechanics (dynamic and nonequilibrium) (82Cxx) Special processes (60Kxx)

Abstract: For the first time, the energy diffusion approximation is confronted at the percent level with the exact numerical modeling of thermal decay of a metastable state. The latter is performed using the quasistationary decay rates resulting from the Langevin equations for the coordinate and conjugated momentum. For the energy (or action) diffusion approach, a Langevin-type equation for the action is constructed, validated, and solved numerically. The comparison of two approaches is performed for four potentials (two of which are anharmonic) in a wide range of two dimensionless scaling parameters: the governing parameter $G$ reflecting how high is the barrier with respect to the temperature and the damping parameter $varphi$ expressing the friction strength. It turns out that the action diffusion approach produces the rate which is in 50% agreement with the exact one only at $varphi<0.02$ contrary to $varphi<1$ as claimed in the literature.

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