I am trying to obtain the standard expressions for free fall in a constant and stationary gravitational field using stochastic mechanics. When the initial velocity of the particle is $v_0$ we write the following equation for the subsequent Brownian movement
$${\frac {\partial }{\partial t}}p \left( x,t \right) +v_{{0}}{\frac {
\partial }{\partial x}}p \left( x,t \right) =\eta \left( t \right) {
\frac {\partial ^{2}}{\partial {x}^{2}}}p \left( x,t \right)$$
where $p(x,t)$ is the probability that the particle is at position x at time t; and $\eta \left( t \right) $ is the diffusivity of the particle in the gravitational field at time t. Assuming that the particle at t = 0 is at x = 0, we have that
$$p \left( x,0 \right) =\delta \left( x \right) $$
where $\delta \left( x \right) $ is the Dirac delta function.
We consider a general form for the diffusivity given by
$$\eta \left( t \right) =\eta\,{t}^{n}$$
where $n$ is a positive integer.
The solution of this problem is obtained with Maple using the Fourier transform and the result is
From this solution the expected position for the particle is
$$E \left( x \left( t \right) \right) =v_{{0}}t$$
and the corresponding variance for the position at time t is
$${\it Var} \left( x \left( t \right) \right) =2\,{\frac {\eta\,{t}^{n+
1}}{n+1}}$$
The classical trajectory for the particle is reconstructed according with
$$x \left( t \right) =E \left( x \left( t \right) \right) +\sqrt {{\it
Var} \left( x \left( t \right) \right) }$$
Then we have that
$$x \left( t \right) =v_{{0}}t+{\frac {\sqrt {2}\sqrt {\eta}{t}^{n/2+
1/2}}{\sqrt {n+1}}}$$
From this last expression the velocity of the particle at time t is
$$v \left( t \right) =v_{{0}}+(1/2)\,\sqrt {2}\sqrt {\eta}{t}^{n/2-1/2}
\sqrt {n+1}$$
If we attempt to recover the classic expression
$$v \left( t \right) =v_{{0}}+gt$$
we need to choose that
$$n = 3$$
and
$$\eta={g}^{2}/2$$
My questions are:
1. Do you know some reference where all these computations can be found ?.
2. It is possible to use these results with the aim to describe the free fall as a real diffusion in a gravitational field?