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We study the induced dynamics of an inertial tracer particle elastically coupled to passive or active Brownian particles. We integrate out the environment degrees of freedom to obtain generalized Langevin equation for the tracer dynamics in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-16 Ion Santra

We study the dynamics of Brownian particles in a heterogeneous one-dimensional medium with a spatially-dependent diffusion coefficient of the form $D(x)\sim |x|^c$, at constant temperature. The particle's probability distribution function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Shaked Regev , Niels Grønbech-Jensen , Oded Farago

A fluctuation-dissipation relation for perturbed configuration of a relativistic star is obtained. The stochastic fluctuations of the classical stress tensor comprising the matter content ( a perfect fluid) of the relativistic star, act as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-02 Seema Satin

The dynamics of weakly coupled, non-abelian gauge fields at high temperature is non-perturbative if the characteristic momentum scale is of order |k|~ g^2 T. Such a situation is typical for the processes of electroweak baryon number…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-28 Claus Zahlten , Andres Hernandez , Michael G. Schmidt

The physical significance of the stochastic processes associated to the generalized Gibbs ensembles is scrutinized here with special attention to the thermodynamic fluctuations of small systems. The contact with the environment produces an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-04 Amilcare Porporato , Salvatore Calabrese , Lamberto Rondoni

We consider stochastic energy balance and entropy production (EP) in a generalized Langevin dynamics of macrospins, allowing for both amplitude and direction fluctuations, under external magnetic field. EP is calculated using Fokker-Planck…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-09 Swarnali Bandopadhyay , Debasish Chaudhuri , A. M. Jayannavar

The long timescale evolution of a self-gravitating system is generically driven by two-body encounters. In many cases, the motion of the particles is primarily governed by the mean field potential. When this potential is integrable,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-26 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Ben Bar-Or

The thermalization of quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions is crucial for understanding its behavior as a relativistic fluid and the thermodynamic properties of the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). This study investigates the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-19 Yu-Shan Mu , Jing-An Sun , Li Yan , Xu-Guang Huang

We use the theory of the fluctuating electromagnetic field to calculate the frictional drag between nearby two-and three dimensional electron systems. The frictional drag results from coupling via a fluctuating electromagnetic field, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. I. Volokitin , B. N. J. Persson

A theoretical model is introduced for constructing the vibrational Hamiltonian of Hydrogen-like atoms (HLA). The Hamiltonian is then used to derive the vibrational motion equations of HLA in Heisenberg picture. The Langevin equation will…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-26 J. Jahanpanah

We provide a formulation of Stochastic Inflation in full general relativity that goes beyond the slow-roll and separate universe approximations. We show how gauge invariant Langevin source terms can be obtained for the complete set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-18 Yoann L. Launay , Gerasimos I. Rigopoulos , E. P. S. Shellard

By utilizing a soft-hard factorized model, which combines a thermal perturbative description of soft scatterings and a perturbative QCD-based calculation for hard collisions, we study the energy and temperature dependence of the heavy quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-24 Shuang Li , Fei Sun , Wei Xie , Wei Xiong

We explore the transient dynamics associated with the emergence of the classical signal in the full quantum system. We start our study from the instability which promotes the squeezing of the quantum system. This is often interpreted as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-29 Masahiro Morikawa

We study the implications of quantum fluctuations of a dispersive medium, under steady rotation, either in or out of thermal equilibrium with its environment. A rotating object exhibits a quantum instability by dissipating its mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-23 Mohammad F. Maghrebi , Robert L. Jaffe , Mehran Kardar

We calculate the drag force on a heavy quark hit by a shock wave, thus generalizing the strongly coupled AdS/CFT heavy quark drag calculations to both hot and cold nuclear matter. The derivation employs the trailing string configuration,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-15 W. A. Horowitz , Yuri V. Kovchegov

The possibility of generation of non-extensive statistics, in the sense of Tsallis, due to space-time foam is discussed within the context of a particular kind of foam in string/brane-theory, the D-particle foam model . The latter involves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 Nick E. Mavromatos , Sarben Sarkar

We study the stochastic motion of an intruder in a dilute driven granular gas. All particles are coupled to a thermostat, representing the external energy source, which is the sum of random forces and a viscous drag. The dynamics of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-27 Alessandro Sarracino , Dario Villamaina , Giulio Costantini , Andrea Puglisi

Macroscopic parameters as well as precise information on the random force characterizing the Langevin type description of the nuclear fusion process around the Coulomb barrier are extracted from the microscopic dynamics of individual…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-04 Kai Wen , Fumihiko Sakata , Zhu-Xia Li , Xi-Zhen Wu , Ying-Xun Zhang , Shan-Gui Zhou

We give a brief overview of recent results obtained through the gauge/gravity correspondence, concerning the propagation of a heavy quark in strongly-coupled conformal field theories (such as N=4 super-Yang-Mills), both at zero and finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-24 Mariano Chernicoff , J. Antonio Garcia , Alberto Guijosa , Juan F. Pedraza

The impact of thermal fluctuations on the translocation dynamics of a polymer chain driven through a narrow pore has been investigated theoretically and by means of extensive Molecular-Dynamics (MD) simulation. The theoretical consideration…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 J. L. A. Dubbeldam , V. G. Rostiashvili , A. Milchev , T. A. Vilgis