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Local time of a system of Brownian particles on the line with steplike initial condition
Ivan N Burenev1, Satya N Majumdar1, Alberto Rosso1
1LPTMS, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France.
Abstract:
We consider a system of noninteracting Brownian particles on a line with a steplike initial condition, and we investigate the behavior of the local time at the origin at large times. We compute the mean and the variance of the local time, and we show that the memory effects are governed by the Fano factor associated with the initial condition. For the uniform initial condition, we show that the probability distribution of the local time admits a large deviation form, and we compute the corresponding large deviation functions for the annealed and quenched averaging schemes. The two resulting large deviation functions are very different. Our analytical results are supported by extensive numerical simulations.
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