Published June 10, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Numerical simulations of generalized Langevin equations with deeply asymptotic parameters

Description

A unified algorithm for solving Langevin equations with deeply asymptotic parameters is proposed and tested. The method consists of identifying solvable linear friction and implementing the force evaluations by use of the Runge-Kutta method. We apply the present scheme to the periodic motion of an overdamped particle subjected to a multiplicative white noise. The accurate calculations for the temporal velocity of the particle and its correlation function can be realized by introducing an inertial term. It is shown that the fluctuation around the steady quantity increases with decreasing time step in the overdamped white-noise algorithm, however, a massive white-noise technique greatly reduces this spurious drift, and the result can converge to the correct value if the added inertia approaches zero. The other application is the simulation of generalized Langevin equation with an exponential memory friction, this allows us to treat a weak non-Markovian process

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.jcp.2003.11.025;
PII
S0021999103006284;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal Volume
197
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 241-252
ISSN
0021-9991
CODEN
JCTPAH

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.