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We propose a generalization of the stochastic resetting mechanism for a Brownian particle diffusing in a one-dimensional periodic potential: randomly in time, the particle gets reset at the bottom of the potential well it was in. Numerical…

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We study the mean first passage time (MFPT) to an absorbing target of a one-dimensional Brownian particle subject to an external potential $v(x)$ in a finite domain. We focus on the cases in which the external potential is confining, of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-14 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar

We demonstrate that a particle driven by a set of spatially uncorrelated, independent colored noise forces in a bounded, multidimensional potential exhibits rotations that are independent of the initial conditions. We calculate the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. W. Ghosh , S. V. Khare

We explore rectification phenomena in a system where two-dimensional random walkers interact with a funnel-shaped ratchet under two distinct classes of reflection rules. The two classes include the angle of reflection exceeding the angle of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-01 Vidyesh Rao Anisetti , Sharath Ananthamurthy , J. M. Schwarz

First-passage times in random walks have a vast number of diverse applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and finance. In general, environmental conditions for a stochastic process are not constant on the time scale of the average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-13 Martin Falcke , V. Nicolai Friedhoff

We consider the statics and dynamics of a single particle trapped in a one-dimensional harmonic potential, and subjected to a driving noise with memory, that is represented by a resetting stochastic process. The finite memory of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-18 Mathis Gueneau , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

We study diffusion properties of an inertial Brownian motor moving on a ratchet substrate, i.e. a periodic structure with broken reflection symmetry. The motor is driven by an unbiased time-periodic symmetric force which takes the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-25 Jakub Spiechowicz , Marcin Kostur , Jerzy Łuczka

The transport properties of Brownian ratchet was studied in the presence of stochastic intensity noise (SIN) in both overdamped and underdamped regimes. In the overdamped case, analytical solution using the matrix continued fraction method…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Yoshihiko Hasegawa , Masanori Arita

We analyze the effect of a colored non Gaussian noise on a model of a random walker moving along a ratchet potential. Such a model was motivated by the transport properties of motor proteins, like kinesin and myosin. Previous studies have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergio E. Mangioni , Horacio S. Wio

We consider a charged Brownian particle in an asymmetric bistable electrostatic potential biased by an externally applied or induced time periodic electric field. While the amplitude of the applied field is independent of frequency, that of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-03-04 Meir Shaked , Zeev Schuss

Dynamics of a Brownian particle in an asymmetric micro-channel that is subjected to an external oscillating force is numerically analyzed. In addition to the elastic collisions with the walls that are kind of short range interactions, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 B. Golshaei , A. Najafi

The paper addresses Brownian motion in the logarithmic potential with time-dependent strength, $U(x,t) = g(t) \log(x)$, subject to the absorbing boundary at the origin of coordinates. Such model can represent kinetics of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-29 Artem Ryabov , Ekaterina Berestneva , Viktor Holubec

Fractional Brownian motion is a generalised Gaussian diffusive process that is found to describe numerous stochastic phenomena in physics and biology. Here we introduce a multi-dimensional fractional Brownian motion (FBM) defined as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-14 Jae-Hyung Jeon , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

The mobility of an overdamped particle, in a periodic potential tilted by a constant external field and moving in a medium with periodic friction coefficient is examined. When the potential and the friction coefficient have the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Debasis Dan , Mangal C. Mahato , A. M. Jayannavar

Particle currents flowing against an external driving are a fascinating phenomenon in both single-particle and interacting many-particle systems. Underlying physical mechanisms of such current reversals are not fully understood yet.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-10 Moritz Wolf , Sören Schweers , Philipp Maass

A class of exclusion processes in which particles perform history-dependent random walks is introduced, stimulated by dynamic phenomena in some biological and artificial systems. The particles locally interact with the underlying substrate…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-08-15 Johannes H. P. Schulz , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky , Erwin Frey

Rapidly oscillating potentials with a vanishing time average have been used for a long time to trap charged particles in source-free regions. It has been argued that the motion of a particle in such a potential can be approximately…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-11-09 A. Ridinger , N. Davidson

The random phase approximation (RPA) for the correlation energy functional of density functional theory has recently attracted renewed interest. Formulated in terms of the Kohn-Sham (KS) orbitals and eigenvalues, it promises to resolve some…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Hong Jiang , Eberhard Engel

The conventional impedance profile of a neuron can identify the presence of resonance and other properties of the neuronal response to oscillatory inputs, such as nonlinear response amplifications, but it cannot distinguish other nonlinear…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-24 Rodrigo F. O. Pena , Vinicius Lima , Renan O. Shimoura , Cesar C. Ceballos , Horacio G. Rotstein , Antonio C. Roque

We study far from equilibrium transport of a periodically driven inertial Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential. As detected recently for a SQUID ratchet dynamics (Spiechowicz J. & Luczka J. Phys. Rev. E 91, 062104 (2015)), the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-07 Jakub Spiechowicz , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka