Mean-Field Treatment of the Many-Body Fokker-Planck Equation

Details Mean-Field Treatment of the Many-Body Fokker-Planck Equation Mean-Field Treatment of the Many-Body Fokker-Planck Equation

2001-06-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0106101v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

13 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/34/50/305

We review some properties of the stationary states of the Fokker - Planck equation for N interacting particles within a mean field approximation, which yields a non-linear integrodifferential equation for the particle density. Analytical results show that for attractive long range potentials the steady state is always a precipitate containing one cluster of small size. For arbitrary potential, linear stability analysis allows to state the conditions under which the uniform equilibrium state is unstable against small perturbations and, via the Einstein relation, to define a critical temperature Tc separating two phases, uniform and precipitate. The corresponding phase diagram turns out to be strongly dependent on the pair-potential. In addition, numerical calculations reveal that the transition is hysteretic. We finally discuss the dynamics of relaxation for the uniform state suddenly cooled below Tc.

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