Two-temperature Langevin dynamics in a parabolic potential

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2013 Jun;87(6):062130. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.062130. Epub 2013 Jun 19.

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 nontrivial particle position distribution, P(x,y), which we determine explicitly. We show that this distribution corresponds to a nonequilibrium stationary state, characterized by the presence of space-dependent particle currents which exhibit a nonzero rotor. Theoretical results are confirmed by the numerical simulations.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't