TY - JOUR
T1 - Brownian motion across a magnetic field
T2 - Langevin approach revisited
AU - Lucero-Azuara, N.
AU - Sánchez-Salas, N.
AU - Jiménez-Aquino, J. I.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 European Physical Society.
PY - 2020/5
Y1 - 2020/5
N2 - In this work we present Langevin's original method to study the Brownian motion of a charged particle across a constant magnetic field. Langevin's strategy allows one to transform the Langevin equation into a deterministic one associated with mean square displacement (MSD), whose solution is explicitly studied in this work. We calculate the MSD for the z-axis, along which the magnetic field is allowed to point: in this direction, the solution is exactly the same proposed by Langevin, while in the x-y plane orthogonal to the magnetic field the solution for the MSD is obtained with the validity of the Bohr-van Leuuwen theorem in thermal equilibrium.
AB - In this work we present Langevin's original method to study the Brownian motion of a charged particle across a constant magnetic field. Langevin's strategy allows one to transform the Langevin equation into a deterministic one associated with mean square displacement (MSD), whose solution is explicitly studied in this work. We calculate the MSD for the z-axis, along which the magnetic field is allowed to point: in this direction, the solution is exactly the same proposed by Langevin, while in the x-y plane orthogonal to the magnetic field the solution for the MSD is obtained with the validity of the Bohr-van Leuuwen theorem in thermal equilibrium.
KW - Bohr-van Leuuwen theorem
KW - Brownian motion
KW - Langevin equation
KW - magnetic field
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U2 - 10.1088/1361-6404/ab6c2b
DO - 10.1088/1361-6404/ab6c2b
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0143-0807
VL - 41
JO - European Journal of Physics
JF - European Journal of Physics
IS - 3
M1 - 035807
ER -