Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics. Instructor: Professor V. Balakrishnan, Department of Physics, IIT Madras. Thermal fluctuations, Langevin dynamics, Brownian motion and diffusion, Fokker-Planck equations, linear response theory, fluctuation-dissipation relations, the Boltzmann equation, critical phenomena, scaling and critical exponents. (from nptel.ac.in)
| Lecture 04 - The Langevin Model (Part 3) |
Variance of the displacement for a free Brownian particle. Conditional PDF of the velocity: Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) distribution. Langevin equation (LE) for a Brownian particle in a magnetic field. Velocity autocorrelation tensor in a magnetic field. Explicit solution for the correlation tensor.
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