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We introduce and study a model in one dimension of $N$ run-and-tumble particles (RTP) which repel each other logarithmically in the presence of an external quadratic potential. This is an "active'' version of the well-known Dyson Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-27 Leo Touzo , Pierre Le Doussal , Gregory Schehr

According to a traditional point of view Boltzmann entropy is intimately related to linear Fokker-Planck equations (Smoluchowski, Klein-Kramers, and Rayleigh equations) that describe a well-known nonequilibrium phenomenon: (normal) Brownian…

General Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 A. O. Bolivar

Fluctuation and dissipation are by-products of coupling to the `environment.' The Caldeira-Leggett model, a successful paradigm of quantum Brownian motion, views the environment as a collection of harmonic oscillators linearly coupled to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Mohammad F. Maghrebi , Matthias Krüger , Mehran Kardar

Brownian motion has served as a pilot of studies in diffusion and other transport phenomena for over a century. The foundation of Brownian motion, laid by Einstein, has generally been accepted to be far from being complete since the late…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-06 Hanqing Zhao , Hong Zhao

We develop a method to study quantum impurity models, small interacting quantum systems linearly coupled to an environment, in presence of an additional Markovian quantum bath, with a generic non-linear coupling to the impurity. We aim at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Orazio Scarlatella , Marco Schirò

We analyse the quantum evolution of a particle moving in a potential in interaction with an environment of harmonic oscillators in a thermal state, using the quantum state diffusion (QSD) picture of Gisin and Percival, in which one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Jonathan Halliwell , Andreas Zoupas

The Caldeira-Leggett model of quantum Brownian motion is generalized using a generic velocity-dependent coupling. That leads to the description of a set of models able to capture Markovian and non-Markovian versions of Brownian and L\'evy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-12 Ruward A. Mulder , Mônica. A. Caracanhas , Cristiane Morais Smith

We analyze the evolution of a quantum Brownian particle starting from an initial state that contains correlations between this system and its environment. Using a path integral approach, we obtain a master equation for the reduced density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Luciana Dávila Romero , Juan Pablo Paz

The quantum thermodynamic behavior of small systems is investigated in presence of finite quantum dissipation. We consider the archetype cases of a damped harmonic oscillator and a free quantum Brownian particle. A main finding is that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Hänggi , Gert-Ludwig Ingold

We present a numerical method that consistently implements thermal fluctuations and hydrodynamic interactions to the motion of Brownian particles dispersed in incompressible host fluids. In this method, the thermal fluctuations are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Iwashita , Y. Nakayama , R. Yamamoto

For the standard Quantum Brownian Motion (QBM) model, we point out the occurrence of simultaneous (parallel), mutually irreducible and autonomous decoherence processes. Besides the standard, one Brownian particle, we show there is at least…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 M. Dugic , J. Jeknic-Dugic

We solve the model of N quantum Brownian oscillators linearly coupled to an environment of quantum oscillators at finite temperature, with no extra assumptions about the structure of the system-environment coupling. Using a compact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-29 C. H. Fleming , Albert Roura , B. L. Hu

We discuss the two-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle that is confined to a harmonic trap and driven by a shear flow. The surrounding medium induces memory effects modelled by a linear, typically nonreciprocal coupling of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-26 Lea Fernandez , Siegfried Hess , Sabine H. L. Klapp

We model a quantum system coupled to an environment of damped harmonic oscillators by following the approach of Caldeira-Leggett and adopting the Caldirola-Kanai Lagrangian for the bath oscillators. In deriving the master equation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-17 Lester Buxton , Marc-Thomas Russo , Jim Al-Khalili , Andrea Rocco

Brownian motion is essential for describing diffusion in systems ranging from simple to complex liquids. Unlike simple liquids, which consist of only a solvent, complex liquids, such as colloidal suspensions or the cytoplasm of a cell, are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-27 Jeffrey C. Everts , Robert Hołyst , Karol Makuch

A new nonlinear Schroedinger equation is obtained explicitly from the fractal Brownian motion of a massive particle with a complex-valued diffusion constant. Real-valued energy (momentum) plane wave and soliton solutions are found in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Carlos Castro , Jorge Mahecha , Boris Rodriguez

We obtain a non-Markovian quantum master equation directly from the quantization of a non-Markovian Fokker-Planck equation describing the Brownian motion of a particle immersed in a generic environment (e.g. a non-thermal fluid). As far as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-25 A. O. Bolivar

All physical systems are to some extent open and interacting with their environment. This insight, basic as it may seem, gives rise to the necessity of protecting quantum systems from decoherence in quantum technologies and is at the heart…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 S. Groeblacher , A. Trubarov , N. Prigge , G. D. Cole , M. Aspelmeyer , J. Eisert

In this paper we study some thermal properties of quantum field theories in de Sitter space by means of holographic techniques. We focus on the static patch of de Sitter and assume that the quantum fields are in the standard Bunch-Davies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-13 Willy Fischler , Phuc H. Nguyen , Juan F. Pedraza , Walter Tangarife

The Active Brownian Particle (ABP) model has become a prototype of self-propelled particles. ABPs move persistently at a constant speed $V$ along a direction that changes slowly by rotational diffusion, characterized by a coefficient $\Dr$.…

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