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The hydrodynamic stationary states of a granular fluid are addressed theoretically when subject to energy injection and a time-independent, but otherwise arbitrary external potential force. When the latter is not too symmetrical in a well…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-22 Alvaro Domínguez , Nagi Khalil

We study the glassy dynamics taking place in dense assemblies of athermal active particles that are driven solely by a nonequilibrium self-propulsion mechanism. Active forces are modeled as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic process,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-28 Elijah Flenner , Grzegorz Szamel , Ludovic Berthier

We study a self-propelled particle moving in a solvent with the active Ornstein Uhlenbeck dynamics in the underdamped regime to evaluate the influence of the inertia. We focus on the properties of potential-free and harmonically confined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

From the smallest scales of quantum systems to the largest scales of intergalactic medium, turbulence is ubiquitous in nature. Often dubbed as the last unsolved problem of classical physics, it remains a time tested paradigm of dynamics far…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-23 Sanjay CP , Ashwin Joy

We show that the Casimir-Polder potential of a particle in an energy eigenstate at nonretarded distance from a well-conducting body of arbitrary shape is independent of the environment temperature. This is true even when the thermal photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-23 Simen Å. Ellingsen , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Stefan Scheel

We investigate the thermodynamic properties of a single inertial probe driven into a nonequilibrium steady-state by random collisions with self-propelled active walkers. The probe and walkers are confined within a gravitational harmonic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-13 Dima Boriskovsky , Rémi Goerlich , Benjamin Lindner , Yael Roichman

The dynamics of active particles is of interest at many levels and is the focus of theoretical and experimental research. There have been many attempts to describe the dynamics of particles affected by random active forces in terms of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Dan Wexler , Nir S. Gov , Kim Ø. Rasmussen , Golan Bel

We study numerically and analytically the properties of the stationary state of a particle moving under the influence of an electric field $\bE$ in a two dimensional periodic Lorentz gas with the energy kept constant by a Gaussian…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 F. Bonetto , D. Daems , J. L. Lebowitz

Direct Monte Carlo simulations of the Enskog-Boltzmann equation for a spatially uniform system of smooth inelastic spheres are performed. In order to reach a steady state, the particles are assumed to be under the action of an external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 J. M. Montanero , A. Santos

We study the stationary dynamics of an active interacting Brownian particle system. We measure the violations of the fluctuation dissipation theorem, and the corresponding effective temperature, in a locally resolved way. Quite naturally,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-29 Isabella Petrelli , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Giuseppe Gonnella , Antonio Suma

We consider an overdamped particle with a general physical mechanism that creates noisy active movement (e.g., a run-and-tumble particle or active Brownian particle etc.), that is confined by an external potential. Focusing on the limit in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-23 Naftali R. Smith

We consider a system of $N$ particles living on the noncommutative plane in the presence of a confining potential and study its thermodynamics properties. Indeed, after calculating the partition function, we determine the corresponding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Rachid Houça , Ahmed Jellal

We consider a system of particles subjected to a uniform external force E and undergoing random collisions with "virtual" fixed obstacles, as in the Drude model of conductivity. The system is maintained in a nonequilibrium stationary state…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Federico Bonetto , Joel L. Lebowitz

We investigate a novel type of Langevin model that describes the nonequilibrium dynamics of a classical particle interacting with a spatially extended environment. In this model, a particle, which interacts with the environment through the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-20 Taiki Haga

We characterize the dynamic non-equilibrium steady state behavior of active particles using density fluctuations in the system. We analyze the effective local density around a particle in the steady state and numerically calculate its mean,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-22 Jayam Joshi , Pawan Kumar Mishra , Shradha Mishra

We investigate the long time behavior of a passive particle evolving in a one-dimensional diffusive random environment, with diffusion constant $D$. We consider two cases: (a) The particle is pulled forward by a small external constant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-16 François Huveneers

We theoretically and numerically investigate the transport of active colloids to target regions, delimited by asymmetric energy barriers. We show that it is possible to introduce a generalized effective temperature that is related to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-30 N. Koumakis , C. Maggi , R. Di Leonardo

We study a planar two-temperature diffusion of a Brownian particle in a parabolic potential. The diffusion process is defined in terms of two Langevin equations with two different effective temperatures in the X and the Y directions. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Victor Dotsenko , Anna Maciolek , Oleg Vasilyev , Gleb Oshanin

The overdamped Brownian motion of a self-propelled particle which is driven by a projected internal force is studied by solving the Langevin equation analytically. The "active" particle under study is restricted to move along a linear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-28 Borge ten Hagen , Sven van Teeffelen , Hartmut Löwen

A granular gas composed of inelastic hard spheres or disks in the homogeneous cooling state is considered. Some of the particles are labeled and their number density exhibits a time-independent linear profile along a given direction. As a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero