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Dynamics of inelastic gases are studied within the framework of random collision processes. The corresponding Boltzmann equation with uniform collision rates is solved analytically for gases, impurities, and mixtures. Generally, the energy…

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The time-reversal symmetry of nonequilibrium fluctuations is experimentally investigated in two out-of-equilibrium systems namely, a Brownian particle in a trap moving at constant speed and an electric circuit with an imposed mean current.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 David Andrieux , Pierre Gaspard , Sergio Ciliberto , Nicolas Garnier , Sylvain Joubaud , Artyom Petrosyan

The fluctuations of the work done by an external Gaussian random force on a harmonic oscillator that is also in contact with a thermal bath is studied. We have obtained the exact large deviation function as well as the complete asymptotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-08 Sanjib Sabhapandit

The underdamped Langevin equation of motion of a particle, in a symmetric periodic potential and subjected to a symmetric periodic forcing with mean zero over a period, with nonuniform friction, is solved numerically. The particle is shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-29 S. Saikia , Mangal C. Mahato

We experimentally study the fluctuations of the work done by an external Gaussian random force on two different stochastic systems coupled to a thermal bath: a colloidal particle in an optical trap and an atomic force microscopy cantilever.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-20 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Ludovic Bellon , Artyom Petrosyan , Sergio Ciliberto

Stochastic phenomena in which the noise amplitude is proportional to the fluctuating variable itself, usually called {\it multiplicative noise}, appear ubiquitously in physics, biology, economy and social sciences. The properties of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Miguel A. Munoz

We study the fluctuation of the Atlas model, where a unit drift is assigned to the lowest ranked particle among a semi-infinite ($ \mathbb{Z}_+ $-indexed) system of otherwise independent Brownian particles, initiated according to a Poisson…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Amir Dembo , Li-Cheng Tsai

We present a generic formalism to describe Brownian motion of particles with intrinsic asymmetry and give predictions for the drift behavior in unbiased time-dependent force fields. Our findings are supported by molecular dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-01 M. van den Broek , R. Eichhorn , C. Van den Broeck

We study the motion of an elastic object driven in a disordered environment in presence of both dissipation and inertia. We consider random forces with the statistics of random walks and reduce the problem to a single degree of freedom. It…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-08-22 Pierre Le Doussal , Aleksandra Petkovic , Kay Jörg Wiese

A Brownian Motor is a nanoscale or molecular device that combines the effects of thermal noise, spatial or temporal asymmetry, and directionless input energy to drive directed motion. Because of the input energy, Brownian motors function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Dean Astumian

A geometrically polar granular rod confined in 2-D geometry, subjected to a sinusoidal vertical oscillation, undergoes noisy self-propulsion in a direction determined by its polarity. When surrounded by a medium of crystalline spherical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-21 Nitin Kumar , Sriram Ramaswamy , A. K. Sood

Large entropy fluctuations in an equilibrium steady state of classical mechanics were studied in extensive numerical experiments on a simple 2--freedom strongly chaotic Hamiltonian model described by the modified Arnold cat map. The rise…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. V. Chirikov , O. V. Zhirov

A new class of random partial differential equations of parabolic type is considered, where the stochastic term consists of an irregular noisy drift, not necessarily Gaussian, for which a suitable interpretation is provided. After freezing…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-12-04 Francesco Russo , Gerald Trutnau

In active Brownian motion, an internal propulsion mechanism interacts with translational and rotational thermal noise and other internal fluctuations to produce directed motion. We derive the distribution of its extreme fluctuations and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Patrick Pietzonka , Kevin Kleinbeck , Udo Seifert

Transport in a one-dimensional symmetric device can be activated by the combination of thermal noise and a bi-harmonic drive. For the study case of an overdamped Brownian particle diffusing on a periodic one-dimensional substrate, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Borromeo , F. Marchesoni

We study the flashing ratchet model of a Brownian motor, which consists in cyclical switching between the Fokker-Planck equation with an asymmetric ratchet-like potential and the pure diffusion equation. We show that the motor really…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-13 Dmitry Vorotnikov

Multistability is one of the most important phenomena in dynamical systems, e.g. bistability enables the implementation of logic gates and therefore computation. Recently multistability has attracted a greatly renewed interest related to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-01 J. Spiechowicz , J. Łuczka

We consider motion of a particle in a one-dimensional tilted ratchet potential subject to two-sided tempered stable L\'{e}vy noise characterised by strength $\Omega$, fractional index $\alpha$, skew $\theta$ and tempering $\lambda$. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Mathew Zuparic , Alexander Kalloniatis , Dale Roberts

The major goal of the present paper is to find out the manifestation of the boundedness of fluctuations. Two different subjects are considered: (i) an ergodic Markovian process associated with a new type of large scaled fluctuations at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria K. Koleva , Valery C. Covachev

We study by simulation a mixture of active (run-and-tumble) and passive (Brownian) particles with repulsive exclusion interactions in one dimension, subject to a ratchet (smoothed sawtooth) potential. Such a potential is known to rectify…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-27 Jean-François Derivaux , Robert L. Jack , Michael E. Cates