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We study metastable behaviour in systems of weakly interacting Brownian particles with localised, attractive potentials which are smooth and globally bounded. In this particular setting, numerical evidence suggests that the particles…

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The motion of a quantum particle hopping on a simple cubic lattice under the influence of thermal noise and of a static random potential is expected to be diffusive, i.e., the particle is expected to exhibit `quantum Brownian motion', no…

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The steady state of a Brownian particle diffusing in an arbitrary potential under the stochastic resetting mechanism has been studied. We show that there are different classes of nonequilibrium steady states depending on the nature of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-13 Arnab Pal

We study the two-dimensional overdamped motion of an active particle whose orientational dynamics is subject to fractional Brownian noise, whereas its position is affected by self-propulsion and Brownian fluctuations. From a Langevin-like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-21 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Francisco J. Sevilla

We investigate the dynamics of an overdamped Brownian particle moving in a washboard potential with space dependent friction coefficient. Analytical expressions have been obtained for current and diffusion coefficient. We show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar

We study the order statistics of one dimensional branching Brownian motion in which particles either diffuse (with diffusion constant $D$), die (with rate $d$) or split into two particles (with rate $b$). At the critical point $b=d$ which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 Kabir Ramola , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

The unbiased thermal diffusion of an overdamped Brownian particle in a square lattice potential is considered in the presence of an externally applied ac driving. The resulting diffusion matrix exhibits two orthogonal eigenvectors with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-22 David Speer , Ralf Eichhorn , Peter Reimann

Diffusive transport in many complex systems features a crossover between anomalous diffusion at short times and normal diffusion at long times. This behavior can be mathematically modeled by cutting off (tempering) beyond a mesoscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-15 Thomas Vojta , Zachary Miller , Samuel Halladay

We consider a run an tumble particle with two velocity states $\pm v_0$, in an inhomogeneous force field $f(x)$ in one dimension. We obtain exact formulae for its velocity $V_L$ and diffusion constant $D_L$ for arbitrary periodic $f(x)$ of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-17 Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

Fractional Brownian motion and the fractional Langevin equation are models of anomalous diffusion processes characterized by long-range power-law correlations in time. We employ large-scale computer simulations to study these models in two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-22 Thomas Vojta , Alex Warhover

The dynamical behavior for a quantum Brownian particle is investigated under a random potential of the fractional iterative map on a one-dimensional lattice. For our case, the quantum expectation values can be obtained numerically from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kyungsik Kim , Y. S. Kong , M. K. Yum , J. T. Kim

We consider a Brownian particle performing an overdamped motion in a power-law repulsive potential. If the potential grows with the distance faster than quadratically, the particle escapes to infinity in a finite time. We determine the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-03 P. L. Krapivsky , Baruch Meerson

Diffusion coefficient usually decreases when friction increases. We analyze the opposite behavior in the paradigmatic system consisting of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric spatially periodic potential and driven by an…

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We study the large-time behaviour of Brownian particles moving through a viscous medium in a confined potential, and which are further subjected to position-dependent driving forces that are periodic in time. We focus on the case where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sreedhar B. Dutta , Mustansir Barma

Simultaneous diffusive and inertial motion of Brownian particles in laminar Couette flow is investigated via Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions to determine the effect of particle inertia on diffusive transport in the long-time. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-13 Yannis Drossinos , Michael W. Reeks

Active and diffusive motion in Brownian particles are regularly observed in fluidic environments, albeit at different time scales. Here, we experimentally study the dynamics of highly asymmetric microclusters trapped in air employing…

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Biological Physics · Physics 2020-07-16 Narender Khatri , P. S. Burada

We report video-microscopy measurements of the translational and rotational Brownian motions of isolated ellipsoidal particles in quasi-two-dimensional sample cells of increasing thickness. The long-time diffusion coefficients were measured…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-10 Y. Han , A. Alsayed , M. Nobili , A. G. Yodh

The one-dimensional motion of any number $\cN$ of particles in the field of many independent waves (with strong spatial correlation) is formulated as a second-order system of stochastic differential equations, driven by two Wiener…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Yves Elskens , Etienne Pardoux