Randomly accelerated particle in a box: mean absorption time for partially absorbing and inelastic boundaries
Statistical Mechanics
2011-07-19 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
Consider a particle which is randomly accelerated by Gaussian white noise on the line segment and is absorbed as soon as it reaches or . The mean absorption time , where and denote the initial position and velocity, was calculated exactly by Masoliver and Porr\`a in 1995. We consider a more general boundary condition. On arriving at either boundary, the particle is absorbed with probability and reflected with probability . The reflections are inelastic, with coefficient of restitution . With exact analytical and numerical methods and simulations, we study the mean absorption time as a function of and .
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502275,
title = {Randomly accelerated particle in a box: mean absorption time for partially absorbing and inelastic boundaries},
author = {Stanislav N. Kotsev and Theodore W. Burkhardt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502275},
year = {2011}
}
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20 pages, including 4 figures