Nonsingular Collapse of a Perfect Fluid Sphere Within a Dilaton-Gravity Reformulation of the Oppenheimer Model

A generic four-dimensional dilaton gravity is considered as a basis for reformulating the paradigmatic Oppenheimer–Synder model of a gravitationally collapsing star modelled as a perfect fluid or dust sphere. Initially, the vacuum Einstein scalar-tensor equations are modified to Einstein–Langevin equations which incorporate a noise or micro-turbulence source term arising from Planck scale conformal, dilaton fluctuations which induce metric fluctuations. Coupling the energy-momentum tensor for pressureless dust or fluid to the Einstein–Langevin equations, a modification of the Oppenheimer–Snyder dust collapse model is derived. The Einstein–Langevin field equations for the collapse are of the form of a Langevin equation for a non-linear Brownian motion of a particle in a homogeneous noise bath. The smooth worldlines of collapsing matter become increasingly randomised Brownian motions as the star collapses, since the backreaction coupling to the fluctuations is non-linear; the input assumptions of the Hawking–Penrose singularity theorems are then violated. The solution of the Einstein–Langevin collapse equation can be found and is non-singular with the singularity being smeared out on the correlation length scale of the fluctuations, which is of the order of the Planck length. The standard singular Oppenheimer–Synder model is recovered in the limit of zero dilaton fluctuations.     

Nonlinear transport and dynamics of fluctuations

The time evolution of the macroscopic variables of a system initially in a state far from thermal equilibrium is studied from a statistical mechanical point of view. Exact nonlinear transport equations for the mean values and linear nonstationary Langevin equations for the fluctuations around the mean path are derived. Connections between the dynamics of fluctuations and the transport equations are discussed. The Langevin random forces depend on the macroscopic state and they are related to the transport kernels by a fluctuation-dissipation formula.     

Microdynamics and nonlinear stochastic processes of gross variables

Starting from classical Hamiltonian mechanics, we derive for the dynamics of gross variables in nonequilibrium systems exact nonlinear generalized Fokker-Planck and Langevin equations in which the effect of the initial preparation is taken into account explicitly. This latter concept allows for the construction of a uniquely determined projection operator. The memory functions occurring in the Langevin equations are related to the random forces by a fluctuation-dissipation theorem of the second kind. We discuss the connection with the generalized Fokker-Planck equation. The known results for equilibrium fluctuations are recovered as a special case.Supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant CHE78-21460.     

Projector formalism of generalized Brownian motion theory applied to dissipative and noisy systems

The projector formalism of Zwanzig-Mori type is extended to obtain generalized Fokker-Planck and generalized nonlinear Langevin equations for coarse-grained variables when the underlying microscopic dynamics is dissipative and noisy (stochastic).     

Spectrum of certain non-self-adjoint operators and solutions of Langevin equations with complex drift

As part of a program to evaluate expectations in complex distributions by longterm averages of solutions to Langevin equations with complex dirft, a simple one-dimensional example is examined in some detail. The validity and rate of convergence of this scheme depends on the spectrum of an associated non-selfadjoint Hamiltonian which is found numerically. In the regime where the stochastic evaluation should be accurate numerical solution of the Langevin equation shows this to be the case.     

Solving Langevin equation with the bicolour rooted tree method

Stochastic differential equations, especially the one called Langevin equation, play an important role in many fields of modern science. In this paper, we use the bicolour rooted tree method, which is based on the stochastic Taylor expansion, to get the systematic pattern of the high order algorithm for Langevin equation. We propose a popular test problem, which is related to the energy relaxation in the double well, to test the validity of our algorithm and compare our algorithm with other usually used algorithms in simulations. And we also consider the time-dependent Langevin equation with the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noise as our second example to demonstrate the versatility of our method.     

The stochastic Boltzmann equation and hydrodynamic fluctuations

Based on the assumption of a kinetic equation in space, a stochastic differential equation of the one-particle distribution is derived without the use of the linear approximation. It is just the Boltzmann equation with a Langevin-fluctuating force term. The result is the general form of the linearized Boltzmann equation with fluctuations found by Bixon and Zwanzig and by Fox and Uhlenbeck. It reduces to the general Landau-Lifshitz equations of fluid dynamics in the presence of fluctuations in a similar hydrodynamic approximation to that used by Chapman and Enskog with respect to the Boltzmann equation.This work received financial support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.     

具有固有频率涨落的记忆阻尼线性系统的随机共振

研究了在内噪声、外噪声(固有频率涨落噪声)及周期激励信号共同作用下具有指数型记忆阻尼的广义Langevin方程的共振行为.首先将其转化为等价的三维马尔可夫线性系统,再利用Shapiro-Loginov公式和Laplace变换导出系统响应一阶矩和稳态响应振幅的解析表达式.研究发现,当系统参数满足Routh-Hurwitz稳定条件时,稳态响应振幅随周期激励信号频率、记忆阻尼及外噪声参数的变化存在"真正"随机共振、传统随机共振和广义随机共振,且随机共振随着系统记忆时间的增加而减弱.数值模拟计算结果表明系统响应功率谱与理论结果相符.     

Langevin model of the rotational diffusion of molecules

Globular molecules in dense gases, liquids, and orientationally disordered crystals experience an incessant fluctuating torque of rather weak magnitude. In gases and liquids the fluctuating torque perturbs the otherwise free rotational motion which becomes diffusive. We treat the rotational diffusion within the Langevin model where the molecules are driven by a stochastic torque and hindered by a friction term. The Langevin equation for molecules with one, two, and three angular degrees of freedom is solved numerically and the dipole and Raman correlation functions are extracted. In the one-dimensional case we compare with the exact solution of the Langevin equation, in two and three dimensions with earlier work and with experimental results.     

On the brownian motion of a frequencymodulated oscillator

The Langevin equations for a harmonically bound particle, where the force constant is a given function of time, is solved. The mean and mean-square properties of the solution are determined. The analysis is then specialized to the case of a force constant periodic in time. It is shown that the mean fluctuations remain bounded in time precisely when the mean motion is stable (remains bounded).This work was supported in part by NSF Grant CHE77-14553.     

Foundations of quantum mechanics: The Langevin equations for QM

Stochastic derivations of the Schrödinger equation are always developed on very general and abstract grounds. Thus, one is never enlightened which specific stochastic process corresponds to some particular quantum mechanical system, that is, given the physical system—expressed by the potential function, which fluctuation structure one should impose on a Langevin equation in order to arrive at results identical to those comming from the solutions of the Schrödinger equation. We show, from first principles, how to write the Langevin stochastic equations for any particular quantum system. We also show the relation between these Langevin equations and those proposed by Bohm in 1952. We present numerical simulations of the Langevin equations for some quantum mechanical problems and compare them with the usual analytic solutions to show the adequacy of our approach. The model also allows us to address important topics on the interpretation of quantum mechanics.     

自发辐射对量子级联激光器发光噪声的影响

为得到量子级联激光器特有的光噪声特性,通过在速率方程中引入Langevin噪声源以及自发辐射因子的方法,在单模与线性增益的情况下讨论了自发辐射因子及与偏置电流等参数与光噪声的强度及带宽等特性之间的关系,计算结果表明,增大自发辐射因子能降低光噪声的强度,增宽光噪声的3-dB截止频率,进一步的研究也表明,自发辐射因子对光噪声的影响与激光器的偏置电流有密切关系,这种影响在偏置电流较小时比较明显,但当偏置电流很大时自发辐射因子对光噪声的影响将变得很弱。     

基于Lagrange方法封闭的两相湍流场方程模型

两相湍流场方程模型采用基于Euler方法的一阶矩方程,而二阶矩方程由Lagrange方法得到,新模型的封闭不需要附加其它假设.首先基于概率密度函数给出颗粒运动的连续方程和动量方程,其次由基于平均Langevin方程的Lagrange模型推导得到颗粒二阶矩方程,最终获得封闭的二阶矩模型.将新模型用于气固两相壁面射流的数值模拟,结果表明新模型合理有效.     

从布朗运动的发现到RR方法

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