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Extreme statistics and spacing distribution in a Brownian gas correlated by resetting

Statistical Mechanics 2025-11-11 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study a one-dimensional gas of NN Brownian particles that diffuse independently, but are {\it simultaneously} reset to the origin at a constant rate rr. The system approaches a non-equilibrium stationary state (NESS) with long-range interactions induced by the simultaneous resetting. Despite the presence of strong correlations, we show that several observables can be computed exactly, which include the global average density, the distribution of the position of the kk-th rightmost particle and the spacing distribution between two successive particles. Our analytical results are confirmed by numerical simulations. We also discuss a possible experimental realisation of this resetting gas using optical traps.

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@article{arxiv.2211.00563,
  title  = {Extreme statistics and spacing distribution in a Brownian gas correlated by resetting},
  author = {Marco Biroli and Hernan Larralde and Satya N. Majumdar and Gregory Schehr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.00563},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

5 pages + 8 pages (Supplementary Material), 4 figures. Published version. Misprint corrected in the Supp. Mat. (Section IV)