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The nonlinear dynamics of electron-acoustic localized structures in a collisionless and unmagnetized plasma consisting of "cool" inertial electrons, "hot" electrons having a kappa distribution, and stationary ions is studied. The…

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The state of particles injected onto the surface of the Fermi sea depends essentially on the temperature. The pure state injected at zero temperature becomes a mixed state if injected at finite temperature. Moreover the electron source…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Michael Moskalets

Simulation results are presented to demonstrate electron temperature and electrical potential development in dilute and cold plasma development. The simulation method is a hybrid method which adopted fluid model for electrons due to their…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Shiying Cai , Chunpei Cai , Zhen Zhang

Energy diffusion due to spontaneous localization (SL) for a relativistically-fast moving particle is examined. SL is an alternative to standard quantum theory in which quantum state reduction is treated as a random physical process which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-04 Daniel Bedingham

We experimentally investigate the statistical behaviour of a model two-dimensional granular system undergoing stationary sedimentation. Buoyant cylindrical particles are rotated in liquid-filled drum, thus confined in a harmonic centripetal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-01 Nariaki Sakaï , Sébastien Moulinet , Frédéric Lechenault , Mokhtar Adda-Bedia

We investigate the escape rate of an overdamped, self-propelled spherical Brownian particle on a surface from a metastable potential well. Within a modeling in terms of a 1D constant speed of the particle's active dynamics we consider the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-12 Alexander Geiseler , Peter Hänggi , Gerhard Schmid

The mobility of externally-driven phoretic propulsion of particles is evaluated by simultaneously solving the solute conservation equation, interaction potential equation, and the modified Stokes equation. While accurate, this approach is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-16 Arkava Ganguly , Souradeep Roychowdhury , Ankur Gupta

This research presents a framework for describing the average velocity magnitude of an accelerated, self-propelled Brownian particle diffusing in a thermal fluid and confined by a harmonic external potential. The system is immersed in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Pedro J. Colmenares

A steady state of a granular gas with homogeneous granular temperature, no mass flow, and nonzero heat flux is studied. The state is created by applying an external position--dependent force or by enclosing the grains inside a curved…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-31 Nagi Khalil

We solve a physically significant extension of a classic problem in the theory of diffusion, namely the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process [G. E. Ornstein and L. S. Uhlenbeck, Phys. Rev. 36, 823, (1930)]. Our generalised Ornstein-Uhlenbeck systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Bezuglyy , B. Mehlig , M. Wilkinson , K. Nakamura , E. Arvedson

We consider model of a complex particle that consists of a rigid shell and a nucleus with spatial asymmetric interaction. The particle's dynamics with the nucleus driven by a periodic excitation is considered. It is shown that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Denisov

We develop a theory of the effective disorder temperature in glass-forming materials driven away from thermodynamic equilibrium by external forces. Our basic premise is that the slow configurational degrees of freedom of such materials are…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Eran Bouchbinder , J. S. Langer

We study the thermal and non-thermal steady state scaling functions and the steady-state dynamics of a model of local quantum criticality. The model we consider, i.e. the pseudogap Kondo model, allows us to study the concept of effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-10 P. Ribeiro , F. Zamani , S. Kirchner

We argue that, within the realm of gauge-gravity duality, for a large class of systems in a steady-state there exists an effective thermodynamic description. This description comes equipped with an effective temperature and a free energy,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-06 Arnab Kundu

We consider the thermal and athermal overdamped motion of particles in 1D geometries where discrete internal degrees of freedom (spin) are coupled with the translational motion. Adding a driving velocity that depends on the time-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-21 Thibaut Demaerel , Christian Maes

One of the most fundamental quests in the physics of active matter concerns the existence of a comprehensive theory for its macroscopic properties, i.e. an ``active thermodynamics''. Here, we derive and experimentally verify key elements of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-08 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Benno Liebchen , Hartmut Löwen

Overdamped motion of Brownian particles in tilted piecewise linear periodic potentials is considered. Explicit algebraic expressions for the diffusion coefficient, current, and coherence level of Brownian transport are derived. Their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Els Heinsalu , Risto Tammelo , Teet Ord

We perform large-scale molecular dynamics simulations to study heated granular fluids in three dimensions. Granular particles dissipate their kinetic energy due to solid frictional interaction with other particles. The velocity of each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-25 Prasenjit Das , Sanjay Puri , Moshe Schwartz

We study the motion of a one-dimensional run-and-tumble particle with three discrete internal states in the presence of a harmonic trap of stiffness $\mu.$ The three internal states, corresponding to positive, negative and zero velocities…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-19 Urna Basu , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso , Sanjib Sabhapandit , Gregory Schehr

The dynamics of a point charged particle which is driven by a uniform external electric field and moves in a medium of elastic scatterers is investigated. Using rudimentary approaches, we reproduce, in one dimension, the known results that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner
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