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Two-temperature Langevin dynamics in a parabolic potential

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-15 v2

Abstract

We study a planar two-temperature diffusion of a Brownian particle in a parabolic potential. The diffusion process is defined in terms of two Langevin equations with two different effective temperatures in the X and the Y directions. In the stationary regime the system is described by a non-trivial particle position distribution P(x,y), which we determine explicitly. We show that this distribution corresponds to a non-equilibrium stationary state, characterised by the presence of space-dependent particle currents which exhibit a non-zero rotor. Theoretical results are confirmed by the numerical simulations.

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@article{arxiv.1302.4056,
  title  = {Two-temperature Langevin dynamics in a parabolic potential},
  author = {Victor Dotsenko and Anna Maciolek and Oleg Vasilyev and Gleb Oshanin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.4056},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures

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