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The dynamics of mechanical systems such as turbomachinery with multiple blades are often modeled by arrays of periodically driven coupled nonlinear oscillators. It is known that such systems may have multiple stable vibrational modes, and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-06 Lautaro Cilenti , Maria Cameron , Balakumar Balachandran

Non-Gaussian noise influences many complex out-of-equilibrium systems on a wide range of scales such as quantum devices, active and living matter, and financial markets. Despite the ubiquitous nature of non-Gaussian noise, its effect on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-01 Adrian Baule , Peter Sollich

We consider a harmonic oscillator under periodic driving and coupled to two harmonic-oscillator heat baths at different temperatures. We use the thermofield transformation with chain mapping for this setup, which allows us to study the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-19 Tianqi Chen , Dario Poletti

We study heat transport in a chain of harmonic oscillators with random elastic collisions between nearest-neighbours. The equations of motion of the covariance matrix are numerically solved for free and fixed boundary conditions. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-10 L. Delfini , S. Lepri , R. Livi , C. Mejia-Monasterio , A. Politi

We study the non-equilibrium diffusion dynamics of supersonic lattice solitons in a classical chain of atoms with nearest-neighbor interactions coupled to a heat bath. As a specific example we choose an interaction with cubic anharmonicity.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Edward Arevalo , Franz G. Mertens , Yuri Gaididei , A. R. Bishop

We, herein, present a new model based on the framework of synchronization to describe a thermoacoustic system and capture the multiple bifurcations that such a system undergoes. Instead of applying flame describing function to depict the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-06-11 Yue Weng , Vishnu R. Unni , R. I. Sujith , Abhishek Saha

We investigate thermalization in a tight-binding chain with an on-site defect subject to local dephasing noise implemented as random phase kicks. For a single linear defect of strength $\epsilon$, we obtain an exact analytical description…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-27 Debraj Das , Andrea Gambassi , Stefano Iubini , Stefano Lepri

We study the probability distribution and the escape rate in systems with delayed dissipation that comes from the coupling to a thermal bath. To logarithmic accuracy in the fluctuation intensity, the problem is reduced to a variational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. I. Dykman , I. B. Schwartz

In this paper, we propose a framework to investigate the collective dynamics in ensembles of globally coupled phase oscillators when higher-order modes dominate the coupling. The spatiotemporal properties of the attractors in various…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-04-19 Can Xu , Hairong Xiang , Jian Gao , Zhigang Zheng

The Langevin equation is ubiquitously employed to numerically simulate plasmas, colloids and electrolytes. However, the usual assumption of white noise becomes untenable when the system is subject to an external AC electric field. This is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Daniele Gamba , Bingyu Cui , Alessio Zaccone

We study the possibility of taking bosonic systems subject to quadratic Hamiltonians and a noisy thermal environment to non-classical stationary states by feedback loops based on weak measurements and conditioned linear driving. We derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Marco G. Genoni , Stefano Mancini , Alessio Serafini

Dynamic facilitation theory assumes short-ranged dynamic constraints to be the essential feature of supercooled liquids and draws much of its conclusions from the study of kinetically constrained models. While deceptively simple, these…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-12 Thomas Speck , David Chandler

The escape phenomenon, mainly caused by thermal effects, is known as an obstacle to the further practical application of optical levitation system in vacuum. Irregular photophoresis induced by thermal effects can act as an amplifier of…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-16 Mengzhu Hu , Nan Li , Zhenhai Fu , Yizhou Zhang , Wenqiang Li , Huizhu Hu

We consider two types of strongly disordered one-dimensional Hamiltonian systems coupled to baths (energy or particle reservoirs) at the boundaries: strongly disordered quantum spin chains and disordered classical harmonic oscillators.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-26 Wojciech De Roeck , Abhishek Dhar , Francois Huveneers , Marius Schuetz

Based on a variational expression for the steady-state entropy production rate in overdamped Langevin dynamics, we derive concrete upper bounds on the entropy production rate in various physical settings. For particles in a thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-30 Andreas Dechant

We investigate the thermodynamics of overdamped systems weakly driven by time-dependent protocols while interacting with viscoelastic heat baths. Using a generalized Langevin equation with memory, we derive the conditions under which the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Pierre Nazé , Fabricio Q. Potiguar

The study of quantum thermodynamics is key to the development of quantum thermal machines. In contrast to most of the previous proposals based on discrete strokes, here we consider a working substance that is permanently coupled to two or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Heather Leitch , Nicolò Piccione , Bruno Bellomo , Gabriele De Chiara

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of two coupled mechanical oscillators with general linear couplings to two uncorrelated thermal baths at temperatures $T_1$ and $T_2$, respectively. We obtain the complete solution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-07 Daniel Boyanovsky , David Jasnow

We study a conservative stochastic lattice dynamics (Kawasaki dynamics) in contact everywhere in the bulk with a heat bath. Particles interact via an Ising Hamiltonian and phase separation occurs at low temperature. We drive the system out…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-22 Meander Van den Brande , Kyosuke Adachi , Francois Huveneers

Through an exact analysis using quantum Langevin dynamics, we demonstrate the crossover from ballistic to diffusive thermal transport in a harmonic chain with each site connected to Ohmic heat reservoirs. The temperatures of the two heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dibyendu Roy