Harmonic oscillator Brownian motion: Langevin approach revisited
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https://doi.org/10.31349/RevMexFisE.18.97Keywords:
Langevin Equation, Brownian motion, Harmonic Oscillator Brownian motion, MSDAbstract
The original strategy applied by Langevin to Brownian movement problem is used to solve the case of a free particle under a harmonic potential. Such straightforward strategy consists in separating the noise termin the Langevin equation in order to solve a deterministic equation associated
with the Mean Square Displacement (MSD). In this work, to achieve our goal we first calculate the variance for the stochastic harmonic oscillator and then the MSD appears immediately. We study the problem in the damped and lightly damped cases and show that, for times greater than the relaxation time, Langevin's original strategy is quite consistent with the exact theoretical solutions reported by Chandrasekhar and Lemons, these latter obtained using the statistical properties of a Gaussian white noise. Our results for the MSDs are compared with the exact theoretical solutions as well as with the numerical simulation.
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