English

First Passage Resetting Gas

Statistical Mechanics 2026-02-18 v2

Abstract

We study a one-dimensional gas of NN Brownian particles that diffuse independently but are simultaneously reset whenever any of them reaches a fixed threshold located at L>0L > 0. For any N>2N > 2, the system reaches a non-equilibrium stationary state (NESS) at long-times with strong long-range correlations. These correlations emerge purely from the dynamics, and not from built-in interactions. Despite being strongly correlated, the NESS has a solvable structure that allows for an exact computation of several physical observables, both global and local. These include the average density profile, the distribution of the position of the kk-th ordered particles, the distribution of the gap between two consecutive particles and the full counting statistics, i.e., the distribution of the number of particles in a finite interval around the origin.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2512.00440,
  title  = {First Passage Resetting Gas},
  author = {Marco Biroli and Satya N. Majumdar and Gregory Schehr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.00440},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures, slightly revised version before submission

R2 v1 2026-07-01T08:00:46.236Z