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We report on a high precision measurement of gravitational acceleration using ultracold strontium atoms trapped in a vertical optical lattice. Using amplitude modulation of the lattice intensity, an uncertainty $\Delta g /g \approx 10^{-7}$…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-02-24 N. Poli , F. -Y. Wang , M. G. Tarallo , A. Alberti , M. Prevedelli , G. M. Tino

We study theoretically the complex network of forces that is responsible for the static structure and properties of granular materials. We present detailed calculations for a model in which the fluctuations in the force distribution arise…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. N. Coppersmith , C. -h. Liu , S. Majumdar , O. Narayan , T. A. Witten

We measure the fluctuations of the position of a Brownian particle confined by an optical trap in an aging gelatin droplet after a fast quench. Its linear response to an external perturbation is also measured. We compute the spontaneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-05 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Artyom Petrosyan , Sergio Ciliberto

We discuss the unitary quantum dynamics of the Dicke model (spin and oscillator coupled). A suitable quasiprobabilty representing the quantum state turns out to obey a Fokker-Planck equation, with drift terms representing the underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexander Altland , Fritz Haake

Assuming an effective quadratic Hamiltonian, we derive an approximate, linear stochastic equation of motion for the density-fluctuations in liquids, composed of overdamped Brownian particles. From this approach, time dependent two point…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-26 Matthias Krüger , David S. Dean

We consider fluctuations of the time-averaged current in the one-dimensional weakly-asymmetric exclusion process on a ring. The optimal density profile which sustains a given fluctuation exhibits an instability for low enough currents,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-29 Carlos P. Espigares , Pedro L. Garrido , Pablo I. Hurtado

Fluctuation Theorems are statements about the entropy of systems far from thermal equilibrium. In this Letter relativistic Fluctuation Theorems for Brownian motion are presented and proven. Though there is a known discretization dilemma…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Fingerle

We argue that large fluctuations in the saturation momentum are necessary to explain the ATLAS and ALICE data on pA collisions measured at the LHC. Using a form for the distribution of fluctuations motivated by theoretical studies of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-20 Larry McLerran , Michal Praszalowicz

Fluctuations play a critical role in cosmology. They are relevant across a range of phenomena from the dynamics of inflation to the formation of structure. In many cases, these fluctuations are coarse grained and follow a Gaussian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Timothy Cohen , Daniel Green , Akhil Premkumar

We explore fluctuation relations in a periodically driven micromechanical torsional oscillator. In the linear regime where the modulation is weak, we verify that the ratio of the work variance to the mean work is constant, consistent with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 P. Zhou , X. Dong , C. Stambaugh , H. B. Chan

We study the current of particles that move independently in a common static random environment on the one-dimensional integer lattice. A two-level fluctuation picture appears. On the central limit scale the quenched mean of the current…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Jonathon Peterson , Timo Seppäläinen

We establish a way to handle main collective fluctuations in correlated quantum systems based on a Fluctuation Local Field concept. This technique goes beyond standard mean-field approaches, such as Hartree-Fock and dynamical mean-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Alexey N. Rubtsov , Evgeny A. Stepanov , Alexander I. Lichtenstein

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 a Brownian excursion on the time interval $\left|t\right|\leq T$, conditioned to stay above a moving wall $x_{0}\left(t\right)$ such that $x_0\left(-T\right)=x_0\left(T\right)=0$, and $x_{0}\left(\left|t\right|<T\right)>0$. For a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-28 Naftali R. Smith , Baruch Meerson

We consider a model of active Brownian particles with velocity-alignment in two spatial dimensions with passive and active fluctuations. Hereby, active fluctuations refers to purely non-equilibrium stochastic forces correlated with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Grossmann , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Pawel Romanczuk

We study the fluctuations in equilibrium for a dynamics of rods with random length. This includes the classical hard rod elastic collisions, when rod lengths are constant and equal to a positive value. We prove that in the diffusive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Pablo A. Ferrari , Stefano Olla

A particle diffusing around a point of stable mechanical equilibrium in a static but non-conservative force field enters into a steady state characterized by circulation in the probability flux. Circulation in such a Brownian vortex is not…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-17 Bo Sun , Jiayi Lin , Ellis Darby , Alexander Y. Grosberg , David G. Grier

Brownian motion occurs in a variety of fluids, from rare gases to liquids. The Langevin equation, describing friction and agitation forces in statistical balance, is one of the most successful ways to treat the phenomenon. In rare gases, it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-15 Frank Munley

Event-by-event fluctuations of hadronic patterns in heavy-ion collisions are studied in search for signatures of quark-hadron phase transition. Attention is focused on a narrow strip in the azimuthal angle with small $\Delta y$. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Rudolph C. Hwa , Qing-hui Zhang

We analyze the radiative forces between two dielectric nanospheres mediated via the quantum and thermal fluctuations of the electromagnetic field in the presence of an external drive. We generalize the scattering theory description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Clemens Jakubec , Pablo Solano , Uroš Delić , Kanu Sinha