Path integral method applied to the brownian rotation of a symmetric top

E. Braun and Emilio Cortes

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1986, vol. 136, issue 1, 189-214

Abstract: The conditional probability density function in angular velocities space is obtained in an exact and closed expression for a symmetric top undergoing brownian motion. The distribution turns out to be non-gaussian. We obtain the distribution function by shifting the problem of solving stochastic differential equations to the problem of solving ordinary differential equations. This is done using the method of path integrals developed by Feynman and Hibbs for quantum mechanics.

Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(86)90050-6

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