Evolution of a passive particle in a one-dimensional diffusive environment

2020/12/15 by François Huveneers, Huveneers, François, François Simenhaus +1 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Diffusion and Search Dynamics #FOS: Mathematics #Probability (math.PR) #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2012.08394

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Abstract

We study the behavior of a tracer particle driven by a one-dimensional fluctuating potential, defined initially as a Brownian motion, and evolving in time according to the heat equation. We obtain two main results. First, in the short time limit, we show that the fluctuations of the particle become Gaussian and sub-diffusive, with dynamical exponent 3/4. Second, in the long time limit, we show that the particle is trapped by the local minima of the potential and evolves diffusively i.e. with exponent 1/2.

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