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We consider a one dimensional evolution problem modeling the dynamics of an acoustic field coupled with a set of mechanical oscillators. We analyze solutions of the system of ordinary and partial differential equations with time-dependent…

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We consider the nonequilibrium work distribution of a quantum oscillator with modulated angular frequency. We examine the discrete-to-continuous transition of the distribution as the temperature and the degree of nonadiabaticity of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-28 Sebastian Deffner , Obinna Abah , Eric Lutz

The work distribution is a fundamental quantity in nonequilibrium thermodynamics mainly due to its connection with fluctuations theorems. Here we develop a semiclassical approximation to the work distribution for a quench process in chaotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Ignacio García-Mata , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Diego A. Wisniacki

We study the dynamics of an inertial particle coupled to forcing, dissipation, and noise in the small mass limit. We derive an expression for the limiting (homogenized) joint distribution of the position and (scaled) velocity degrees of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Jeremiah Birrell , Janek Wehr

We obtain an almost sure bound for oscillation rates of empirical distribution functions for stationary causal processes. For short-range dependent processes, the oscillation rate is shown to be optimal in the sense that it is as sharp as…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Wei Biao Wu

The formalism of Kundu et al. [J. Stat. Mech. (2011) P03007], for computing the large deviations of heat flow in harmonic systems, is applied to the case of single Brownian particle in a harmonic trap and coupled to two heat baths at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-21 Sanjib Sabhapandit

The asymptotic tails of the probability distributions of thermodynamic quantities convey important information about the physics of nanoscopic systems driven out of equilibrium. We apply a recently proposed method to analytically determine…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-23 D. Nickelsen , A. Engel

The evolution and the statistical properties of an infinite gravitating system represent an interesting and widely investigated subject of research. In cosmology, the standard approach is based on equations of hydrodynamics. In the present…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Pietronero , M. Bottaccio , R. Mohayaee , M. Montuori

In this paper we consider a generalized classical mechanics with fractional derivatives. The generalization is based on the time-clock randomization of momenta and coordinates taken from the conventional phase space. The fractional…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Aleksander Stanislavsky

We consider an isothermal machine composed of two Brownian particles (say particle A and B) connected by a harmonic spring. A constant load is attached to particle A, and the particle B is trapped in a harmonic confinement whose minimum is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Deepak Gupta

A study of time homogeneous, real valued Markov processes with a special property and a non-atomic initial distribution is provided. The new notion of a function of evolution of distribution which determines the dependency between one…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Tomasz Bielecki , Jacek Jakubowski , Maciej Wiśniewolski

We derive a systematic, multiple time-scale perturbation expansion for the work distribution in isothermal quasi-static Langevin processes. To first order we find a Gaussian distribution reproducing the result of Speck and Seifert [Phys.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Johannes Hoppenau , Andreas Engel

In this paper, we present a variational treatment of the linear dependence for a non-orthogonal time-dependent basis set in solving the Schr\"odinger equation. The method is based on: i) the definition of a linearly independent working…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Loïc Joubert-Doriol

We discuss some problems of dissipative chaos for open quantum systems in the framework of semiclassical and quantum distributions. For this goal, we propose a driven nonlinear oscillator with time-dependent coefficients, i.e. with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 T. V. Gevorgyan , A. R. Shahinyan , G. Yu. Kryuchkyan

We extend Tooru-Cohen analysis for nonequilirium steady state(NSS) of a Brownian particle to nonequilibrium oscillatory state (NOS) of Brownian particle by considering time dependent external drive protocol. We consider an unbounded charged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-20 Navinder Singh

The quantization of a constant of motion for the harmonic oscillator with a time-explicitly depending external force is carried out. This quantization approach is compared with the normal Hamiltonian quantization approach. Numerical results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 G. Lopez

The time evolution of correlation functions in statistical systems is described by an exact functional differential equation for the corresponding generating functionals. This allows for a systematic discussion of non-equilibrium physics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Christof Wetterich

For a Brownian system the evolution of thermodynamic quantities is a stochastic process. In particular, the work performed on a driven colloidal particle held in an optical trap changes for each realization of the experimental manipulation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Giuseppe Pesce , Giovanni Volpe , Alberto Imparato , Giulia Rusciano , Antonio Sasso

We compute exactly the distribution of the occupation time in a discrete {\em non-Markovian} toy sequence which appears in various physical contexts such as the diffusion processes and Ising spin glass chains. The non-Markovian property…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Satya N. Majumdar , David S. Dean

We present a general scheme to obtain work distribution in closed systems under continuous quantum histories of corresponding "power" operator. The scheme is tested by analytically calculating the quantum work distribution for a prototype…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-24 Huanan Li , Jian-Sheng Wang