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Exactly solvable diffusions from space-time transformations

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Costantino Di Bello
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Édgar Roldán
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Ralf Metzler *
DOI:doi:10.1088/1367-2630/adecbbdelete
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Abstract

Abstract

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We consider a general one-dimensional overdamped diffusion model described by the Itô stochastic differential equation (SDE) , where Wt is the standard Wiener process. We obtain a specific condition that µ and σ must fulfil in order to be able to solve the SDE via mapping the generic process, using a suitable space-time transformation, onto the simpler Wiener process. By taking advantage of this transformation, we obtain the propagator in the case of open, reflecting, and absorbing time-dependent boundary conditions for a large class of diffusion processes. In particular, this allows us to derive the first-passage time statistics of such a large class of models, some of which were so far unknown. While our results are valid for a wide range of non-autonomous, non-linear and non-homogeneous processes, we illustrate applications in stochastic thermodynamics by focusing on the propagator and the first-passage-time statistics of isoentropic processes that were previously realised in the laboratory by Brownian particles trapped with optical tweezers.
Keywords:
stochastic differential equations
space-time transformation
propagator
first-passage time statistics
stochastic thermodynamics

Journal

New Journal of Physics cover
New Journal of Physics
IF:
2.8
Papers:
580
Citations:
3.5W

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