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The underdamped Langevin equation of motion of a particle, in a symmetric periodic potential and subjected to a symmetric periodic forcing with mean zero over a period, with nonuniform friction, is solved numerically. The particle is shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-29 S. Saikia , Mangal C. Mahato

We study analytically the dynamics of an anisotropic particle subjected to different stochastic resetting schemes in two dimensions. The Brownian motion of shape-asymmetric particles in two dimensions results in anisotropic diffusion at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-02 Subhasish Chaki , Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Hartmut Löwen

Spontaneous transitions between non-equilibrium patterns are characterised by hydrodynamic calculations of ideal straight roll steady state heat convection. The calculations are tested quantitatively against existing experimental data. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-28 Phil Attard

Several physical models have recently been proposed to obtain unidirectional motion of an overdamped Brownian particle in a periodic potential system. The asymmetric ratchetlike form of the periodic potential and the presence of correlated…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Mangal C. Mahato , T. P. Pareek , A. M. Jayannavar

The paper treats a reaction-diffusion equation with hysteretic nonlinearity on a one-dimensional lattice. It arises as a result of the spatial discretization of the corresponding continuous model with so-called nontransverse initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Pavel Gurevich , Sergey Tikhomirov

Recently, we developed a theory of a geometrically growing system. Here we show that the theory can explain some phenomena of power-law distribution including classical demographic and economic and novel pandemic instances, without…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-02-28 Kim Chol-jun

Translational ordering of the internal kinematic chaos provides the Special Relativity referents for the geodesic motion of warm thermodynamical bodies. Taking identical mathematics, relativistic physics of the low speed transport of…

General Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 I. E. Bulyzhenkov

This paper explores a novel connection between a thermodynamic and a dynamical systems perspective on emergent dynamical order. We provide evidence for a conjecture that Hamiltonian systems with mixed chaos spontaneously find regular…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-09-16 Pavel Chvykov , Jeremy England

We survey recent results on reaction-diffusion equations with discontinuous hysteretic nonlinearities. We connect these equations with free boundary problems and introduce a related notion of spatial transversality for initial data and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Mark Curran , Pavel Gurevich , Sergey Tikhomirov

Nonergodicity observed in single-particle tracking experiments is usually modeled by transient trapping rather than spatial disorder. We introduce models of a particle diffusing in a medium consisting of regions with random sizes and random…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-23 P. Massignan , C. Manzo , J. A. Torreno-Pina , M. F. García-Parajo , M. Lewenstein , G. J. Lapeyre

Recent theoretical research on the fundamentals of statistical mechanics has led to a remarkable discovery [2-4]: with a locally nonchaotic energy barrier, a macroscopic system may produce useful work in a cycle by absorbing heat from a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-10 Yu Qiao , Meng Wang

Recent advances in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics shed new light on the ratchet effect. The ratchet motion can thus be understood in terms of symmetry (breaking) considerations. We introduce an additional symmetry operation besides…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Wojciech De Roeck , Christian Maes

We study diffusion in ratchet systems. As a particular experimental realization we consider an asymmetric SQUID subjected to an external ac current and a constant magnetic flux. We analyze mean-square displacement of the Josephson phase and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-02 Jakub Spiechowicz , Jerzy Łuczka

Diffusive transport of a particle in spatially correlated random energy landscape having exponential density of states has been considered. We exactly calculate the diffusivity in the nondispersive quasi-equilibrium transport regime and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-14 S. V. Novikov

Thermodynamic implications of anisotropic gas-surface interactions in a closed molecular flow cavity are examined. Anisotropy at the microscopic scale, such as might be caused by reduced-dimensionality surfaces, is shown to lead to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. L. Miller

A mechanism of the self-organization in an unbounded two-dimensional (2D) point vortex system is discussed. A kinetic equation for the system with positive and negative vortices is derived using the Klimontovich formalism. Similar to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-15 Yuichi Yatsuyanagi , Tadatsugu Hatori

We study a connection between chemical thermodynamics and information geometry. We clarify a relation between the Gibbs free energy of an ideal dilute solution and an information-geometric quantity called an $f$-divergence. From this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-11 Kohei Yoshimura , Sosuke Ito

We observe the spontaneous onset of three-dimensional motion from a quiescent, purely conductive state of a stably stratified fluid in a V-shaped enclosure heated from below, which ultimately self-organizes into a two-dimensional steady…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-23 Patrick J. Stofanak , Cheng-Nian Xiao , Inanc Senocak

Two-dimensional (2D) particulate aggregates formed due to competing interactions exhibit a range of non-equilibrium steady state morphologies from finite-size compact crystalline structures to non-compact string-like conformations. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-22 Tamoghna Das , T. Lookman , M. M. Bandi

The "ratchet principle" asserts that non-equilibrium systems which violate parity symmetry generically exhibit steady-state currents. As recently shown, there are exceptions to this principle, due to the existence of hidden time-reversal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-15 Jessica Metzger , Sunghan Ro , Julien Tailleur