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arxiv: cond-mat/0402628 · v1 · pith:SWHEBPFUnew · submitted 2004-02-25 · ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech · cond-mat.soft

Equilibrium of a confined, randomly-accelerated, inelastic particle: Is there inelastic collapse?

classification ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.soft
keywords particleboundaryequilibriuminelasticacceleratedanalyticalboundariescoefficient
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We consider the one-dimensional motion of a particle randomly accelerated by Gaussian white noise on the line segment 0<x<1. The reflections of the particle from the boundaries at x=0 and 1 are inelastic, with coefficient of restitution r. We have solved the Fokker-Planck equation satisfied by the equilibrium distribution function P(x,v) with a combination of exact analytical and numerical methods. Throughout the interval 0<r<1, P(x,v) remains extended, as opposed to collapsed. The particle is not localized at the boundary. However, for r<0.163 the equilibrium boundary collision rate is infinite, as predicted by Cornell et al., and all moments of the velocity just after reflection from the boundary vanish.

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