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Diffusion coefficient usually decreases when friction increases. We analyze the opposite behavior in the paradigmatic system consisting of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric spatially periodic potential and driven by an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-31 I. G. Marchenko , I. I. Marchenko , V. Aksenova , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

Since the times of Holtsmark (1911), statistics of fields in random environments have been widely studied, for example in astrophysics, active matter, and line-shape broadening. The power-law decay of the two-body interaction, of the form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-29 Avraham Samama , Eli Barkai

The anomalous (i.e. non-Gaussian) dynamics of particles subject to a deterministic acceleration and a series of 'random kicks' is studied. Based on an extension of the concept of continuous time random walks to position-velocity space, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Friedrich , F. Jenko , A. Baule , S. Eule

The dynamics of a test particle interacting with diffusing impurities in one dimension is investigated analytically and numerically. In the absence of an applied external force, the dynamics of the particle can be characterized by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lasse Laurson , Mikko J. Alava

In this paper we numerically investigate the influence of dissipation during particle collisions in an homogeneous turbulent velocity field by coupling a discrete element method to a Lattice-Boltzmann simulation with spectral forcing. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-12-18 Thomas Burgener , Dirk Kadau , Hans Jürgen Herrmann

We consider the propagation of gravitational waves in the late time Universe with the presence of structure. Before detection, gravitational waves emitted from distant sources have to traverse through regions of spacetime which are far from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-27 Shashank S. Pandey , Arnab Sarkar , Amna Ali , A. S. Majumdar

We study the motion of an inertial particle in a fractional Gaussian random field. The motion of the particle is described by Newton's second law, where the force is proportional to the difference between a background fluid velocity and the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Georg Schöchtel

The evolution and the statistical properties of an infinite gravitating system represent an interesting and widely investigated subject of research. In cosmology, the standard approach is based on equations of hydrodynamics. In the present…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Pietronero , M. Bottaccio , R. Mohayaee , M. Montuori

Gravitational waves (GWs) are direct probes of cosmological gravity, sensitive to space-time inhomogeneities along their propagation. The presence of massive objects breaks homogeneity and isotropy, allowing for new interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicola Menadeo , Serena Giardino , Miguel Zumalacárregui

We show that in experimental atomic force microscopy studies of the lifetime distribution of mechanically stressed folded proteins the effects of externally applied fluctuations can not be distinguished from those of internally present…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-10-21 Maxime Clusel , Eric I. Corwin

We investigate the dynamics of a three-state stochastic lattice gas, consisting of holes and two oppositely "charged" species of particles, under the influence of an "electric" field, at zero total charge. Interacting only through an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Korniss , B. Schmittmann , R. K. P. Zia

Here, we model the effect of non-uniform dynamical mass distributions and their associated gravitational fields on the stationary galactic superwind solution. We do this by considering an analogue injection of mass and energy from stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-04 G. A. Añorve-Zeferino , M. G. Corona-Galindo

In 1687, Isaac Newton published the universal law of gravitation stating that two bodies attract each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and the inverse square of the distance. The constant of proportionality, G,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikhail L. Gershteyn , Lev I. Gershteyn , Arkady Gershteyn , Oleg V. Karagioz

To address the observation of Max Born (M. Born 1969) that the Newton's second law can emerge from a purely statistical perspective, we derive the evolution equation about the statistical distribution for dilute gas based solely on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-23 Hong Yuan , Chang-Pu Sun

We discuss diffusion of particles in a spatially inhomogeneous medium. From the microscopic viewpoint we consider independent particles randomly evolving on a lattice. We show that the reversibility condition has a discrete geometric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Daniele Andreucci , Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Matteo Colangeli , Davide Gabrielli

An external load on a particle packing is distributed internally through a heterogeneous network of particle contacts. This contact force distribution determines the stability of the particle packing and the resulting structure. Here, we…

We revisited the problem of heavy particles suspended in homogeneous box turbulence flow subjected to rotation along the vertical axis, which introduces anisotropy along the vertical and horizontal planes. We investigate the effect of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-12 Priyanka Maity

We investigate the influence of random variations of the Galactic gravitational field on the apparent celestial positions of extragalactic sources. The basic statistical characteristics of a stochastic process (first-order moments, an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-03 T. Larchenkova , A. Lutovinov , N. Lyskova

We explore the possibility of obtaining unidirectional current in a symmetric (periodic) potential system without the application of any obvious (apparent) externally applied bias. There are many physical models proposed to accomplish this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Jayannavar

The self-gravitating systems are formed by particles interacting through gravity. They describe structure formation in the universe. As a consequence of the long range interaction of gravity, they are inhomogeneous even at thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Siebert