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Diffusion in the Markovian limit of the spatio-temporal colored noise

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-13 v2 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We explore the diffusion process in the non-Markovian spatio-temporal noise.%the escape rate problem in the non-Markovian spatio-temporal random noise. There is a non-trivial short memory regime, i.e., the Markovian limit characterized by a scaling relation between the spatial and temporal correlation lengths. In this regime, a Fokker-Planck equation is derived by expanding the trajectory around the systematic motion and the non-Markovian nature amounts to the systematic reduction of the potential. For a system with the potential barrier, this fact leads to the renormalization of both the barrier height and collisional prefactor in the Kramers escape rate, with the resultant rate showing a maximum at some scaling limit.

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@article{arxiv.0712.0551,
  title  = {Diffusion in the Markovian limit of the spatio-temporal colored noise},
  author = {Takaaki Monnai and Ayumu Sugita and Katsuhiro Nakamura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.0551},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4pages,2figures