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

DOI10.1016/J.CJPH.2020.08.002arXiv1908.03940OpenAlexW3047062469MaRDI QIDQ6129102FDOQ6129102

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

Publication date: 16 April 2024

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

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.

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

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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)

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