Noninteracting particles in a harmonic trap with a stochastically driven center
Sanjib Sabhapandit,
Satya N Majumdar
Abstract:We study a system of N noninteracting particles on a line in the presence of a harmonic trap U(x) = µ[x − z(t)]^2/2, where the trap center z(t) undergoes a bounded stochastic modulation. We show that this stochastic modulation drives the system into a nonequilibrium stationary state, where the joint distribution of the positions of the particles is not factorizable. This indicates strong correlations between the positions of the particles that are not inbuilt, but rather get generated by the dynamics itself. M… Show more
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