The stochastic process of equilibrium fluctuations, of a system with long range interactions

Freddy Bouchet

Published 2003-05-08Version 1

The relaxation towards equilibrium of systems with long range interactions is not yet fully understood. As a step towards such a comprehension, we propose the study of the dynamical equilibrium fluctuations in a model system with long range interaction. We compute analytically, from the microscopic dynamics, the autocorrelation function of the order parameter. From this result, we derive analytically a Fokker Planck equation which describes the stochastic process of the impulsion of a single particle in an equilibrium bath. The diffusion coefficient is explicitly computed.