Semi-Markovian switching in a fluctuating harmonic trap: An age-structured formulation

Abstract

We study a Brownian particle in a harmonic trap whose stiffness switches between two values with arbitrary waiting-time statistics, generating semi-Markovian dynamics. To treat the resulting temporal memory, we formulate the problem in an enlarged age-structured state space, restoring Markovianity and yielding a local Fokker--Planck description. Within this framework, we derive exact steady-state integral equations for the spatial and birth distributions and obtain exact expressions for stationary moments, injected power, and potential energy. In the second part of the paper, we analyze the stochastic-resetting limit, corresponding to a particle alternately released and trapped. By representing the stationary spatial distribution as a superposition of Gaussian states with fluctuating variance, the problem can be reformulated as a switching process in variance space. This yields exact integral equations for the variance distributions and leads to a simplified description amenable to direct analytical treatment.

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