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We study the statistics, in stationary conditions, of the work $W_\tau$ done by the active force in different systems of self-propelled particles in a time $\tau$. We show the existence of a critical value $W_\tau ^\dag$ such that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-17 Francesco Cagnetta , Federico Corberi , Giuseppe Gonnella , Antonio Suma

Trajectories of an overdamped particle in a highly unstable potential diverge so rapidly, that the variance of position grows much faster than its mean. Description of the dynamics by moments is therefore not informative. Instead, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-26 Luca Ornigotti , Artem Ryabov , Viktor Holubec , Radim Filip

A meshfree Lagrangian method for the fluctuating hydrodynamic equations (FHEs) with fluid-structure interactions is presented. Brownian motion of the particle is investigated by direct numerical simulation of the fluctuating hydrodynamic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Anamika Pandey , Steffen Hardt , Axel Klar , Sudarshan Tiwari

We investigate the dynamics of an inertial active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle suspended in a non-Markovian environment. The particle is additionally subjected to external forces, such as harmonic confinement and a magnetic field. Motivated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-15 Sanju S Pillai , M Muhsin , M Sahoo

We consider the two dimensional motion of a particle into a confining potential, subjected to Brownian forces, associated with two different temperatures on the orthogonal directions. Exact solutions are obtained for an asymmetric harmonic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-23 Vincent Mancois , Bruno Marcos , Pascal Viot , David Wilkowski

Using the Feynman-Kac formula, a work fluctuation theorem for a Brownian particle in a nonconfining potential, e.g., a potential well with finite depth, is derived. The theorem yields aninequality that puts a lower bound on the average work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-12 Christoph Streißnig , Holger Kantz

We study the current of particles that move independently in a common static random environment on the one-dimensional integer lattice. A two-level fluctuation picture appears. On the central limit scale the quenched mean of the current…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Jonathon Peterson , Timo Seppäläinen

We study the Brownian dynamics of a solid particle on a vibrating solid surface. Phenomenologically, the interaction between the two solid surfaces is modeled by solid friction, and the Gaussian white noise models the vibration of the solid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-15 Prasenjit Das , Moshe Schwartz , Sanjay Puri

The problem of Brownian motion in a periodic potential, under the influence of external forcing, which is either random or periodic in time, is studied in this paper. Multiscale techniques are used to derive general formulae for the steady…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Pavliotis

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with long-range correlations in time; it has been shown to be a useful model of anomalous diffusion. Here, we investigate the effects of mutual interactions in an ensemble of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-15 Jonathan House , Rashad Bakhshizada , Skirmantas Janušonis , Ralf Metzler , Thomas Vojta

A novel approach to account for hard-body interactions in (overdamped) Brownian dynamics simulations is proposed for systems with non-vanishing force fields. The scheme exploits the analytically known transition probability for a Brownian…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-11-07 Hans Behringer , Ralf Eichhorn

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

The dynamics of two Brownian particles trapped by two neighboring harmonic potentials in a linear shear flow is investigated. The positional correlation functions in this system are calculated analytically and analyzed as a function of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-08 Jochen Bammert , Lukas Holzer , Walter Zimmermann

We study experimentally and theoretically the probability density functions of the injected and dissipated energy in a system of a colloidal particle trapped in a double well potential periodically modulated by an external perturbation. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-21 Alberto Imparato , Pierre Jop , Artyom Petrosyan , Sergio Ciliberto

We complement and extend our work on fluctuation relations arising in nonequilibrium systems in steady states driven by L\'evy noise [Phys. Rev. E 76, 020101(R) (2006)]. As a concrete example, we consider a particle subjected to a drag…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-20 H. Touchette , E. G. D. Cohen

We investigate Brownian motions of a particle coupled to vacuum fluctuations of a quantum field. The Unruh effect predicts that an observer in an accelerated motion sees the Minkowski vacuum as thermally excited. This addresses the problem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-02 Naritaka Oshita , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Sen Zhang

From synthetic active devices such as self-propelling Janus colloids to micro-organisms like bacteria, micro-algae, living cells in tissues, active fluctuations are ubiquitous. Thermodynamics of small systems involving thermal as well as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-29 Arnab Saha , Rahul Marathe

We discuss activated escape from a metastable state of a system driven by a time-periodic force. We show that the escape probabilities can be changed very strongly even by a comparatively weak force. In a broad parameter range, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. I. Dykman , B. Golding , L. I. McCann , V. N. Smelyanskiy , D. G. Luchinsky , R. Mannella , P. V. E. McClintock

In this paper we consider the persistence properties of random processes in Brownian scenery, which are examples of non-Markovian and non-Gaussian processes. More precisely we study the asymptotic behaviour for large $T$, of the probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Fabienne Castell , Nadine Guillotin-Plantard , Frederique Watbled

In this work, we examine the impact of time-varying temperature and force on the thermodynamic features of active Brownian motor that moves with velocity against the force as well as passive Brownian motor. By deriving analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-10 Mesfin Taye