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We show that the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density-functional theory displays dynamical step structures that have a spatially non-local and time non-local dependence on the density. Using one-dimensional…

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The effects of sampling rate and total measurement time have been determined for single-point measurements of step fluctuations within the context of first-passage properties. Time dependent STM has been used to evaluate step fluctuations…

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A nonequilibrium fluctuation theorem is established for a colloidal particle driven by an external force within the hydrodynamic theory of Brownian motion, describing hydrodynamic memory effects such as the t^(-3/2) power-law decay of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Pierre Gaspard

We discuss rapidity decorrelation caused by hydrodynamic fluctuations in high-energy nuclear collisions at the LHC energy. We employ an integrated dynamical model which is a combination of the Monte Carlo version of Glauber model with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Azumi Sakai , Koichi Murase , Tetsufumi Hirano

Cells can show not only spontaneous movement but also tactic responses to environmental signals. Since the former can be regarded as the basis to realize the latter, playing essential roles in various cellular functions, it is important to…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Hiroaki Takagi , Masayuki J. Sato , Toshio Yanagida , Masahiro Ueda

Motivated by subdiffusive motion of bio-molecules observed in living cells we study the stochastic properties of a non-Brownian particle whose motion is governed by either fractional Brownian motion or the fractional Langevin equation and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-08 Jae-Hyung Jeon , Ralf Metzler

We study the light-cone and front dynamics of a single particle continuous time extended quantum walk on a one dimensional lattice with finite range hopping. We show that, in general, for an initially localized state, propagating wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-25 Hemlata Bhandari , P. Durganandini

Turbulence in stratified and rotating turbulent flows is characterized by an interplay between waves and eddies, resulting in continuous exchanges between potential and kinetic energy. Here, we study how these processes affect the turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-11 Sebastian Gallon , Alessandro Sozza , Fabio Feraco , Raffaele Marino , Alain Pumir

The exploration of the rich dynamics of electrons is a frontier in fundamental nano-physics. The dynamical behavior of electrons is dominated by random and chaotic thermal motion with ultrafast ($\approx$ ps) and nanoscale scatterings. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Ruijie Qian , S. T. Chui , Zhenghua An , y Hongtao Xu , Zhifang Lin , Zian Ji , Wei Lu

We study general aspects of active motion with fluctuations in the speed and the direction of motion in two dimensions. We consider the case in which fluctuations in the speed are not correlated to fluctuations in the direction of motion,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando Peruani , Luis G. Morelli

We show that above the critical temperature of superconductor - metal phase transitions, both the longitudinal and Hall conductivity exhibit strong temperature dependent mesoscopic fluctuations, with amplitudes much larger than the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Zhou , C. Biagini

The work fluctuations of an oscillator in contact with a thermostat and driven out of equilibrium by an external force are studied experimentally and theoretically within the context of Fluctuation Theorems (FTs). The oscillator dynamics is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederic Douarche , Sylvain Joubaud , Nicolas B. Garnier , Artem Petrosyan , Sergio Ciliberto

We study dynamical fluctuations in overdamped diffusion processes driven by time periodic forces. This is done by studying fluctuation functionals (rate functions from large deviation theory), of fluctuations around the non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-18 Navinder Singh , Bram Wynants

The shape evolution of two-dimensional islands through periphery diffusion biased by an electromigration force is studied numerically using a continuum approach. We show that the introduction of crystal anisotropy in the mobility of edge…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Philipp Kuhn , Joachim Krug , Frank Hausser , Axel Voigt

This paper summarises an investigation of the statistical properties of orbits escaping from three different two-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian systems which exhibit global stochasticity. Each H=H_{0}+eH', with H_{0} integrable and eH' a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Henry E. Kandrup , Christos Siopis , George Contopoulos , Rudolf Dvorak

In a recent paper [Ferrari et al., Phys. Rev. E 69, 035102(R) (2004)], the scaling law of the fluctuations of the step limiting a crystal facet has been computed as a function of the facet size. Ferrari et al. use rigorous, but physically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alberto Pimpinelli , M. Degawa , T. L. Einstein , Ellen D. Williams

We propose a generalized diffusion equation for a flat Euclidean space subjected to a continuous infinitesimal scale transform. For the special cases of an algebraic or exponential expansion/contraction, governed by time-dependent scale…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-17 Manuel Schrauth , Maximilian Schneider

We study the effects of thermal fluctuations on a small elastic ring. We derive analytical expressions for the correlation functions of the Euler angles, for the real space two--point correlation functions and for the probability…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Rabin , S. Panyukov

We examine the non-ergodic properties of scaled Brownian motion, a non-stationary stochastic process with a time dependent diffusivity of the form $D(t)\simeq t^{\alpha-1}$. We compute the ergodicity breaking parameter EB in the entire…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Hadiseh Safdari , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Felix Thiel , Igor M. Sokolov , Ralf Metzler

We study correlated electron states in frustrated geometry of a triangular lattice. The interplay of long range interactions and finite residual entropy of a classical system gives rise to unusual effects in equilibrium ordering as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. Novikov , B. Kozinsky , L. S. Levitov