Brownian motion of a charged particle driven internally by correlated noise

Paraan, Francis N. C.; Solon, Mikhail P.; Esguerra, J. P.

Brownian motion of a charged particle driven internally by correlated noise

Authors

Paraan, Francis N. C.

Solon, Mikhail P.

Esguerra, J. P.

Description

We give an exact solution to the generalized Langevin equation of motion of a charged Brownian particle in a uniform magnetic field that is driven internally by an exponentially-correlated stochastic force. A strong dissipation regime is described in which the ensemble-averaged fluctuations of the velocity exhibit transient oscillations that arise from memory effects. Also, we calculate generalized diffusion coefficients describing the transport of these particles and briefly discuss how they are affected by the magnetic field strength and correlation time. Our asymptotic results are extended to the general case of internal driving by correlated Gaussian stochastic forces with finite autocorrelation times.
10 pages, 4 figures with subfigures, RevTeX, v2: revised