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Effective diffusion coefficient of a Brownian particle in a periodic potential

D.L. Weaver

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1979, vol. 98, issue 1, 359-362

Abstract: The effective diffusion coefficient for a Brownian particle moving in a one-dimensional periodic potential is defined and derived via the mean time to travel one lattice spacing.

Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(79)90187-0

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