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We develop the kinetic theory of the flux-carrying Brownian motion recently introduced in the context of open quantum systems. This model constitutes an effective description of two-dimensional dissipative particles violating both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-27 Antonio A. Valido

Quantum Brownian motion in a periodic cosine potential is studied and a simple estimate of the tunneling effect is obtained in the frames of a quasi-equilibrium semiclassical approach. It is shown that the latter is applicable for heavy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-19 R. Tsekov

This article discusses the numerical result predicted by the quantum Langevin equation of the generalized diffusion function of a Brownian particle immersed in an Ohmic quantum bath of harmonic oscillators. The time dependence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Pedro J. Colmenares

A new nonlinear Schroedinger equation is obtained explicitly from the fractal Brownian motion of a massive particle with a complex-valued diffusion constant. Real-valued energy (momentum) plane wave and soliton solutions are found in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Carlos Castro , Jorge Mahecha , Boris Rodriguez

We investigate a mean-field approach to a quantum brownian particle interacting with a quantum thermal bath at temperature $T$, and subjected to a non-linear potential. An exact, partially classical description of quantum brownian motion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. E. Allahverdyan , R. Balian , Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

Diffusive transport properties of a quantum Brownian particle moving in a tilted spatially periodic potential and strongly interacting with a thermostat are explored. Apart from the average stationary velocity, we foremost investigate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Machura , M. Kostur , P. Talkner , J. Luczka , P. Hänggi

In two prior papers of this series, it was proposed that a wavefunction model of a heavy particle and a collection of light particles might generate ``Brownian-Motion-Like" trajectories as well as diffusive motion (displacement proportional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Leonardo De Carlo , W. David Wick

We explore dissipative quantum tunnelling, a phenomenon central to various physical and chemical processes, using a double-well potential model. This paper aims to bridge gaps in understanding the crossover from thermal activation to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Robson Christie , Jessica Eastman

By considering an ensemble of Brownian particles suspended in a heat bath as a thermodynamic system with an internal degree of freedom it is possible to obtain the Fokker-Planck equation for Brownian motion in a temperature gradient, by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Perez-Madrid , J. M. Rubi , P. Mazur

We show how the quantum analog of the Fokker-Planck equation for describing Brownian motion can be obtained as the diffusive limit of the quantum linear Boltzmann equation. The latter describes the quantum dynamics of a tracer particle in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-20 Bassano Vacchini , Klaus Hornberger

We revisit the model of a system made up of a Brownian quantum oscillator under the influence of an external classical force and linearly coupled to an environment made up of many quantum oscillators at zero or finite temperature. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. H. Fleming , B. L. Hu , Albert Roura

Brownian motion near soft surfaces is a situation widely encountered in nanoscale and biological physics. However, a complete theoretical description is lacking to date. Here, we theoretically investigate the dynamics of a two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Yilin Ye , Yacine Amarouchene , Raphaël Sarfati , David S. Dean , Thomas Salez

The Langevin equation (LE) for the one-dimensional relativistic Brownian motion is derived from a microscopic collision model. The model assumes that a heavy point-like Brownian particle interacts with the lighter heat bath particles via…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jörn Dunkel , Peter Hänggi

We review how unitarity and stationarity in the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism naturally lead to a (quantum) generalized fluctuation-dissipation relation (gFDR) that works beyond thermal equilibrium. Non-Gaussian loop corrections are also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-04 Xinyi Chen-Lin

We model a quantum system coupled to an environment of damped harmonic oscillators by following the approach of Caldeira-Leggett and adopting the Caldirola-Kanai Lagrangian for the bath oscillators. In deriving the master equation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-17 Lester Buxton , Marc-Thomas Russo , Jim Al-Khalili , Andrea Rocco

We derive the quantum thermodynamics of quantum Brownian motion from the exact solution of its reduced density matrix. We start from the total equilibrium thermal state between the Brownian particle and its reservoir, and solve analytically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Chuan-Zhe Yao , Wei-Min Zhang

The quantum thermodynamic behavior of small systems is investigated in presence of finite quantum dissipation. We consider the archetype cases of a damped harmonic oscillator and a free quantum Brownian particle. A main finding is that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Hänggi , Gert-Ludwig Ingold

Einstein's kinetic theory of the Brownian motion, based upon light water molecules continuously bombarding a heavy pollen, provided an explanation of diffusion from the Newtonian mechanics. Since the discovery of quantum mechanics it has…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Laszlo Erdos

Aim of this note is to analyse branching Brownian motion within the class of models introduced in the recent paper [4] and called chemical diffusion master equations. These models provide a description for the probabilistic evolution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Alberto Lanconelli , Berk Tan Perçin

A Wigner-Klein-Kramers equation is proposed, which merges relativistic, quantum and thermo dynamics. The relativistic effect on quantum Brownian motion is studied via the Breit-Fermi Hamiltonian applied into a dissipative Madelung…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Roumen Tsekov