Field induced stationary state for an accelerated tracer in a bath

DOI10.1007/S10955-012-0591-XMaRDI QIDQ691022zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthieu Barbier, Emmanuel Trizac

Publication date 29 November 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6759

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationstationary stateout-of-equilibriumdistribution tails

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: Our interest goes to the behavior of a tracer particle, accelerated by a constant and uniform external field, when the energy injected by the field is redistributed through collision to a bath of unaccelerated particles. A non equilibrium steady state is thereby reached. Solutions of a generalized Boltzmann-Lorentz equation are analyzed analytically, in a versatile framework that embeds the majority of tracer-bath interactions discussed in the literature. These results --mostly derived for a one dimensional system-- are successfully confronted to those of three independent numerical simulation methods: a direct iterative solution, Gillespie algorithm, and the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo technique. We work out the diffusion properties as well as the velocity tails: large v, and either large -v, or v in the vicinity of its lower cutoff whenever the velocity distribution is bounded from below. Particular emphasis is put on the cold bath limit, with scatterers at rest, which plays a special role in our model.

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