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Time dependent current in a nonstationary environment: A microscopic approach

2008/05/31 by Satyabrata Bhattacharya, Suman Kumar Banik, Sudip Chattopadhyay +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech #stochastic dynamics and bifurcation

paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.2942416

published as J. Math. Phys. 49, 063302 (2008) · 10 pages, RevTex4, references updated, final version to appear in Journal of Mathematical Physics

openalex publication_date 2008/06/01 · arxiv created 2008/06/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Based on a microscopic system reservoir model, where the associated bath is not in thermal equilibrium, we simulate the nonstationary Langevin dynamics and obtain the generalized nonstationary fluctuation dissipation relation (FDR) which asymptotically reduces to the traditional form. Our Langevin dynamics incorporates non-Markovian process also, the origin of which lies in the decaying term of the nonstationary FDR. We then follow the stochastic dynamics of the Langevin particle based on the Fokker–Planck–Smoluchowski description in ratchet potential to obtain the steady and time dependent current in an analytic form. We also examine the influence of initial excitation and subsequent relaxation of bath modes on the transport of the Langevin particle to show that the nonequilibrium nature of the bath leads to both strong nonexponential dynamics as well as nonstationary current.

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