Moments of the first passage time under external driving

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DOI10.1007/S10955-004-2269-5zbMATH Open1105.60054arXivcond-mat/0312017OpenAlexW2070237615MaRDI QIDQ852141FDOQ852141


Authors: Benjamin Lindner Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 27 November 2006

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

Abstract: A general theory is derived for the moments of the first passage time of a one-dimensional Markov process in presence of a weak time-dependent forcing. The linear corrections to the moments can be expressed by quadratures of the potential and of the time-dependent probability density of the unperturbed system or equivalently by its Laplace transform. If none of the latter functions is known, the derived formulas may still be useful for specific cases including a slow driving or a driving with power at only small or large times. In the second part of the paper, explicite expressions for mean and variance of the first passage time are derived for the cases of a linear or a parabolic potential and an exponentially decaying driving force. The analytical results are found to be in excellent agreement with computer simulations of the respective first-passage processes. The particular examples furthermore demonstrate that already the effect of a simple exponential driving can be fairly involved implying a nontrivial nonmonotonous behavior of mean and variance as functions of the driving's time scale.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312017




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