Generalized fluctuation-dissipation relation
ID: generalized-fluctuation-dissipation-relation
For the equilibrium generalized Langevin equation with unit mass, the random force has zero mean and the displayed autocorrelation, where is the equilibrium velocity variance. If the deterministic relaxation is stable, and , then the stationary velocity autocorrelation function is , equivalentlyOne proof uses the power spectral density. The even force autocorrelation has spectrum . With transfer function , the velocity spectrum is , the spectrum of the even extension of . Stability removes initial transients with finite second moment. A valid force autocorrelation must have nonnegative power spectral density; an arbitrary proposed memory kernel does not automatically satisfy this condition.
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