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We investigate the crossing of an energy barrier by a self-propelled particle described by a Rayleigh friction term. We reveal the existence of a sharp transition in the external force field whereby the amplitude dramatically increases.…

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We report an experimental study of a dilute "gas" of magnetic particles subjected to a vertical alternating magnetic field in a 3D container. Due to the torque exerted by the field on the magnetic moment of each particle, a spatially…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-10 Eric Falcon , Jean-Claude Bacri , Claude Laroche

Motivated by the conduction properties of graphene discovered and studied in the last decades, we consider the quantum dynamics of a massless, charged, spin 1/2 relativistic particle in three dimensional space-time, in the presence of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-24 Ivan Morales , Bruno Neves , Zui Oporto , Olivier Piguet

A Quincke roller is a unique active particle that can run and tumble freely on a flat plate due to the torque generated by a uniform DC electric field applied perpendicular to the plate. A system involving many such particles exhibits a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-06 Shun Imamura , Kohei Sawaki , John J. Molina , Matthew S. Turner , Ryoichi Yamamoto

We study the confinement of Dirac fermions in armchair graphene nanoribbons by means of a quantum-dot-type electrostatic potential. With the use of specific projection operators, we find exact solutions for some bound states that satisfy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Vit Jakubsky , Sengul Kuru , Javier Negro

A new theory for the dynamics of the magnetic particles and their magnetic moments in ferrofluids is developed. Based on a generalized Lagrangian formulation for the equations of motion of the colloidal particle, we introduce its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Claudio Scherer , Hans-Georg Matuttis

We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of two particles confined in two spatially separated harmonic potentials and linearly coupled to the same thermally fluctuating scalar field, a cartoon for optically trapped colloids in contact with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-12 Davide Venturelli , Andrea Gambassi

Single particle states in the atomic trap employing the rotating magnetic field are found using the full time-dependent instantaneous trapping potential. These states are compared with those of the effective time-averaged potential. We show…

We perform a study to describe motion of charged particles under the influence of electromagnetic and gravitational fields of a slowly rotating wormhole with nonvanishing magnetic moment. We present analytic expression for potentials of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-27 A. A. Abdujabbarov , B. J. Ahmedov

Topological quantum matter exhibits novel transport phenomena driven by entanglement between internal degrees of freedom, as for instance generated by spin-orbit coupling effects. Here we report on a direct connection between the mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jorge Martinez Romeral , Aron W. Cummings , Stephan Roche

We present a description of the energy loss of a charged particle moving parallel to a graphene layer and graphene double layers. Specifically, we compare the stopping power of the plasma oscillations for these two configurations in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Godfrey Gumbs , O. Roslyak , Danhong Huang , Antonios Balassis

Dynamics of active deformable particles in an external Poiseuille flow is investigated. In order to make the analysis general, we employ time-evolution equations derived from symmetry considerations that take into account an elliptical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-07 Mitsusuke Tarama

One propose a relativistic version of the transfer matrix method for an electron moving through a given number of rectangular barriers of arbitrary shape. It is shown that starting with the Dirac equation depending on the effective mass and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Ion I. Cotaescu , Paul Gravila , Marius Paulescu

We present a dynamical framework for modeling the motion of point-like charged particles, with or without mass, in general external electromagnetic fields. A key feature of this formulation is the treatment of time coordinate as a dynamical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Zui Oporto , Gonzalo Marcelo Ramírez-Ávila

A two-dimensional gas of non-interacting quasiparticles in a nearly periodic potential and a perpendicular magnetic field is studied. The potential is a superposition of a periodic potential, induced e.g. by a charge density wave or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Eckern , K. Ziegler

We analyze the motion of an overdamped classical particle in a multidimensional periodic potential, driven by a weak external noise. We demonstrate that in steady-state, the presence of temporal correlations in the noise and spatial…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Ghosh , S. V. Khare

In this paper we study the motion of a charged particle on a Riemannian surface under the influence of a positive magnetic field B. Using Moser's Twist Theorem and ideas from classical pertubation theory we find sufficient conditions to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cesar Castilho

The behavior of electrons in strained graphene is usually described using effective pseudomagnetic fields in a Dirac equation. Here we consider the particular case of a spatially constant strain. Our results indicate that lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 M. Oliva-Leyva , G. G. Naumis

For a particle moves on a 2D surface f(x)=0 embedded in 3D Euclidean space, the geometric momentum and potential are simultaneously admissible within the Dirac canonical quantization scheme for constrained motion. In our approach, not the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Q. H. Liu

We study a two-dimensional granular system where external driving force is applied to each particle in the system in such a way that the system is driven into a steady state by balancing the energy input and the dissipation due to inelastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Gongwen Peng , Takao Ohta