Solution of the Fokker-Planck equation with a logarithmic potential

DOI10.1007/S10955-011-0363-ZzbMATH Open1237.82032arXiv1107.0884OpenAlexW3102107874MaRDI QIDQ658500FDOQ658500

Authors: Juan-Miguel Gracia 

Publication date: 12 January 2012

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

Abstract: We investigate the diffusion of particles in an attractive one-dimensional potential that grows logarithmically for large $|x|$ using the Fokker-Planck equation. An eigenfunction expansion shows that the Boltzmann equilibrium density does not fully describe the long time limit of this problem. Instead this limit is characterized by an infinite covariant density. This non-normalizable density yields the mean square displacement of the particles, which for a certain range of parameters exhibits anomalous diffusion. In a symmetric potential with an asymmetric initial condition, the average position decays anomalously slowly. This problem also has applications outside the thermal context, as in the diffusion of the momenta of atoms in optical molasses.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.0884

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zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equationlogarithmic potentialseigenfunction expansionsasymptotic anomaliesBoltzmann equilibriumdecay of probability distributionsinfinite covariant densitySchrödinger operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinitely divisible distributions; stable distributions (60E07) Markov semigroups and applications to diffusion processes (47D07) Diffusion processes (60J60) Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

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