Work fluctuations for a confined Brownian particle: the role of initial conditions
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| author | Carollo, Giovanni Battista Semeraro, Massimiliano Gonnella, Giuseppe Zamparo, Marco |
| author_facet | Carollo, Giovanni Battista Semeraro, Massimiliano Gonnella, Giuseppe Zamparo, Marco |
| contents | We study the large fluctuations of the work injected by the random force into a Brownian particle under the action of a confining harmonic potential. In particular, we compute analytically the rate function for generic uncorrelated initial conditions, showing that, depending on the initial spread, it can exhibit no, one, or two singularities associated to the onset of linear tails. A dependence on the potential strength is observed for large initial spreads (entailing two singularities), which is lost for stationary initial conditions (giving one singularity) and concentrated initial values (no singularity). We discuss the mechanism responsible for the singularities of the rate function, identifying it as a big jump in the initial values. Analytical results are corroborated by numerical simulations. |
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| spellingShingle | Work fluctuations for a confined Brownian particle: the role of initial conditions Carollo, Giovanni Battista Semeraro, Massimiliano Gonnella, Giuseppe Zamparo, Marco Statistical Mechanics We study the large fluctuations of the work injected by the random force into a Brownian particle under the action of a confining harmonic potential. In particular, we compute analytically the rate function for generic uncorrelated initial conditions, showing that, depending on the initial spread, it can exhibit no, one, or two singularities associated to the onset of linear tails. A dependence on the potential strength is observed for large initial spreads (entailing two singularities), which is lost for stationary initial conditions (giving one singularity) and concentrated initial values (no singularity). We discuss the mechanism responsible for the singularities of the rate function, identifying it as a big jump in the initial values. Analytical results are corroborated by numerical simulations. |
| title | Work fluctuations for a confined Brownian particle: the role of initial conditions |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07707 |