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We study the two-dimensional overdamped motion of an active particle whose orientational dynamics is subject to fractional Brownian noise, whereas its position is affected by self-propulsion and Brownian fluctuations. From a Langevin-like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-21 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Francisco J. Sevilla

We discuss the random motion of charged test particles driven by quantum electromagnetic fluctuations at finite temperature in both the unbounded flat space and flat spacetime with a reflecting boundary and calculate the mean squared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongwei Yu , Jun Chen , Puxun Wu

By now active Brownian motion is a well-established model to describe the motion of mesoscopic self-propelled particles in a Newtonian fluid. On the basis of the generalized Langevin equation, we present an analytic framework for active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-13 Alexander R. Sprenger , Christian Bair , Hartmut Löwen

The resolution of Brownian motion in simulations of micro-particle suspensions can be crucial to reproducing the correct dynamics of individual particles, as well as providing an accurate characterisation of suspension properties. Including…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Eric E. Keaveny

Quantum Brownian motion in the strong friction limit is studied based on the exact path integral formulation of dissipative systems. In this limit the time-nonlocal reduced dynamics can be cast into an effective equation of motion, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joachim Ankerhold , Hermann Grabert , Philip Pechukas

At fast timescales, the self-similarity of random Brownian motion is expected to break down and be replaced by ballistic motion. So far, an experimental verification of this prediction has been out of reach due to a lack of instrumentation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-11 Rongxin Huang , Branimir Lukic , Sylvia Jeney , Ernst-Ludwig Florin

The classical Einstein-Langevin theory of Brownian motion assumes a memoryless thermal bath, establishing a universal fractal dimension of $d_v = 3/2$ for the velocity fluctuations of a particle. In this Letter, we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-18 Michael C. Thumann , Jason Boynewicz , Giuseppe Procopio , Massimiliano Giona , Mark G. Raizen

We derive a model that describes the motion of a Brownian particle in a system which is dominated by gravitational forces. An example of such a system is a massive black hole immersed in a cluster of stars. We compute the dispersion in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pinaki Chatterjee , Lars Hernquist , Abraham Loeb

We study the Brownian motion of ellipsoidal particles lying on an agitated granular bath composed of magnetic particles. We quantify the mobility of different floating ellipsoidal particles using the mean square displacement and the mean…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-12 C. Tapia-Ignacio , R. E. Moctezuma , F. Donado , Eric R. Weeks

The absorption cross section of M\"{o}ssbauer radiation in magnetic liquids is calculated, taking into consideration both translational and rotational Brownian motion of magnetic nanoparticles. Stochastic reversals of their magnetization…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-31 A. Ya. Dzyublik , V. Yu. Spivak

We study the motion of an inertial particle in a fractional Gaussian random field. The motion of the particle is described by Newton's second law, where the force is proportional to the difference between a background fluid velocity and the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Georg Schöchtel

We investigate the stochastic dynamics of one sedimenting active Brownian particle in three dimensions under the influence of gravity and passive fluctuations in the translational and rotational motion. We present an analytical solution of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-24 Jérémy Vachier , Marco G. Mazza

We briefly review the problem of Brownian motion and describe some intriguing facets. The problem is first treated in its original form as enunciated by Einstein, Langevin, and others. Then, utilizing the problem of Brownian motion as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-17 Sushanta Dattagupta , Aritra Ghosh

We study the Brownian dynamics of a solid particle on a vibrating solid surface. Phenomenologically, the interaction between the two solid surfaces is modeled by solid friction, and the Gaussian white noise models the vibration of the solid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-15 Prasenjit Das , Moshe Schwartz , Sanjay Puri

In active Brownian motion, an internal propulsion mechanism interacts with translational and rotational thermal noise and other internal fluctuations to produce directed motion. We derive the distribution of its extreme fluctuations and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Patrick Pietzonka , Kevin Kleinbeck , Udo Seifert

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with long-range correlations in time; it has been shown to be a useful model of anomalous diffusion. Here, we investigate the effects of mutual interactions in an ensemble of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-15 Jonathan House , Rashad Bakhshizada , Skirmantas Janušonis , Ralf Metzler , Thomas Vojta

We analyze the classical and quantized center-of-mass motion of a polarizable particle interacting with the fluctuations of the electromagnetic (EM) field in the presence of a medium. As a polarizable particle is immersed in a thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Clemens Jakubec , Christopher Jarzynski , Kanu Sinha

Brownian motion (BM) is pivotal in natural science for the stochastic motion of microscopic droplets. In this study, we investigate BM driven by thermal composition noise at sub-micro scales, where inter-molecular diffusion and surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-26 Haodong Zhang , Fei Wang , Lorenz Ratke , Britta Nestler

When the density of the fluid surrounding suspended Brownian particles is appreciable, in addition to the forces appearing in the traditional Ornstein and Uhlenbeck theory of Brownian motion, additional forces emerge as the displaced fluid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-19 Nicos Makris

We present a diagrammatic formulation of a theory for the time dependence of density fluctuations in equilibrium systems of interacting Brownian particles. To facilitate derivation of the diagrammatic expansion we introduce a basis that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Grzegorz Szamel