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The Fokker-Planck equation for bistable potential in the optimized expansion

Statistical Mechanics 2009-04-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The optimized expansion is used to formulate a systematic approximation scheme to the probability distribution of a stochastic system. The first order approximation for the one-dimensional system driven by noise in an anharmonic potential is shown to agree well with the exact solution of the Fokker-Planck equation. Even for a bistable system the whole period of evolution to equilibrium is correctly described at various noise intensities.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0111389,
  title  = {The Fokker-Planck equation for bistable potential in the optimized expansion},
  author = {Anna Okopińska},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0111389},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, LATEX, 3 Postscript figures compressed and