English

Boundary driven Brownian gas

Probability 2019-07-25 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We consider a gas of independent Brownian particles on a bounded interval in contact with two particle reservoirs at the endpoints. Due to the Brownian nature of the particles, infinitely many particles enter and leave the system in each time interval. Nonetheless, the dynamics can be constructed as a Markov process with continuous paths on a suitable space. If λ0\lambda_0 and λ1\lambda_1 are the chemical potentials of the boundary reservoirs, the stationary distribution (reversible if and only if λ0=λ1\lambda_0=\lambda_1) is a Poisson point process with intensity given by the linear interpolation between λ0\lambda_0 and λ1\lambda_1. We then analyze the empirical flow that it is defined by counting, in a time interval [0,t][0,t], the net number of particles crossing a given point xx. In the stationary regime we identify its statistics and show that it is given, apart an xx dependent correction that is bounded for large tt, by the difference of two independent Poisson processes with parameters λ0\lambda_0 and λ1\lambda_1.

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@article{arxiv.1702.02797,
  title  = {Boundary driven Brownian gas},
  author = {Lorenzo Bertini and Gustavo Posta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.02797},
  year   = {2019}
}
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