 Ballistic-to-diffusive Brownian displacement (source code)

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= Ballistic-to-diffusive Brownian displacement

With thermal initial velocities and relaxation time $\tau=m/\zeta$, the one-dimensional displacement variance is $2D[t-\tau(1-e^{-t/\tau})]$. It approaches $(k_BT/m)t^2$ at short times and $2Dt$ at long times. Initial velocity preparation changes the short-time result.

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