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脉动场中主动和被动示踪剂扩散的微扰路径积分研究

A perturbative path integral study of active and passive tracer diffusion in fluctuating fields

V. Démery, D. S. Dean

摘要:

研究了布朗粒子与热涨落标量场线性耦合时的有效扩散常数。我们使用路径积分方法计算有效扩散系数微扰到最低阶的耦合常数。此方法可应用于场受粒子(主动示踪剂)影响的情况以及示踪剂被动的情况。我们的研究结果适用于广泛的物理问题,从蛋白质在膜中扩散到被动示踪剂在随机电位中的分散。在被动扩散的情况下,在标量场,我们表明,在某些情况下,耦合到字段可以加快相应的随机共振的形式的扩散。我们的被动扩散的结果也证实了通过微扰计算的粒子的概率密度函数的福克-普朗克制定的问题。简化系统的数值模拟证实了我们的结果。

英文摘要:

We study the effective diffusion constant of a Brownian particle linearly coupled to a thermally fluctuating scalar field. We use a path integral method to compute the effective diffusion coefficient perturbatively to lowest order in the coupling constant. This method can be applied to cases where the field is affected by the particle (an active tracer), and cases where the tracer is passive. Our results are applicable to a wide range of physical problems, from a protein diffusing in a membrane to the dispersion of a passive tracer in a random potential. In the case of passive diffusion in a scalar field, we show that the coupling to the field can, in some cases, speed up the diffusion corresponding to a form of stochastic resonance. Our results on passive diffusion are also confirmed via a perturbative calculation of the probability density function of the particle in a Fokker-Planck formulation of the problem. Numerical simulations on simplified systems corroborate our results.

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