Thermalization of random motion in weakly confining potentials

DOI10.1142/S1230161210000187MaRDI QIDQ3063625zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Piotr Garbaczewski, Vladimir Stephanovich

Publication date 15 December 2010

Published in Open Systems & Information Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4582

zbMATH Keywords

Gibbs-Boltzmann formSmoluchowski processtime-dependent probability density funciton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35)

Abstract: We show that in weakly confining conservative force fields, a subclass of diffusion-type (Smoluchowski) processes, admits a family of "heavy-tailed" non-Gaussian equilibrium probability density functions (pdfs), with none or a finite number of moments. These pdfs, in the standard Gibbs-Boltzmann form, can be also inferred directly from an extremum principle, set for Shannon entropy under a constraint that the mean value of the force potential has been a priori prescribed. That enforces the corresponding Lagrange multiplier to play the role of inverse temperature. Weak confining properties of the potentials are manifested in a thermodynamical peculiarity that thermal equilibria can be approached it only m in a bounded temperature interval $0leqT<T_{max}=2epsilo{n}_0/k_B$, where $epsilo{n}_0$ sets an energy scale. For $Tgeq{T}_{max}$ no equilibrium pdf exists.

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