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We present an interesting connection between Brownian motion and magnetism. We use this to determine the distribution of areas enclosed by the path of a particle diffusing on a sphere. In addition, we find a bound on the free energy of an…

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We analyze the decoherence of a particle's spatial superposition moving along a stationary worldline through the Minkowski vacuum. The particle is modeled via an internal degree of freedom that couples to a scalar field, and an external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Clemens Jakubec , Aaron Bartleson , Peter W. Milonni , Kanu Sinha

The Brownian motion of a charged test particle caused by quantum electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations between two perfectly conducting plates is examined and the mean squared fluctuations in the velocity and position of the test particle are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hongwei Yu , Jun Chen

We use a simple model of particle shape to investigate how particle asymmetry affects particle-surface interaction, orientation, and stochastic dynamics over a planar surface. With this geometric model, we construct potential energy curves…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-10 Guilherme H. Oliveira , A. Honorato , Rene A. Nome

Non-Markovian effects upon the Brownian movement of a free particle in the presence as well as in the absence of inertial force are investigated within the framework of Fokker-Planck equations (Rayleigh and Smoluchowski equations). More…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-10 A. O. Bolivar

We develop a theory of Brownian motion of a massive particle, including the effects of inertia (Kramers' problem), in spaces with curvature and torsion. This is done by invoking the recently discovered generalized equivalence principle,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 H. Kleinert , S. V. Shabanov

Brownian motion of particle interacting with atoms of ideal gas is discussed as a key problem of kinetics lying at the border between ``dead'' systems like the Lorentz gas or formal constructs of conceptual Boltzmannian kinetics and actual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-06-26 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

We analyze the classical and quantized center-of-mass motion of a polarizable particle interacting with the fluctuations of the electromagnetic (EM) field in the presence of a medium. As a polarizable particle is immersed in a thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Clemens Jakubec , Christopher Jarzynski , Kanu Sinha

This work deals with the overdamped motion of a particle in a fluctuating one-dimensional periodic potential. If the potential has no inversion symmetry and its fluctuations are asymmetric and correlated in time, a net flow can be generated…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-26 Enrique Abad , Andreas Mielke

This is a guide to the mathematical theory of Brownian motion and related stochastic processes, with indications of how this theory is related to other branches of mathematics, most notably the classical theory of partial differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Jim Pitman , Marc Yor

We describe in detail the history of Brownian motion, as well as the contributions of Einstein, Sutherland, Smoluchowski, Bachelier, Perrin and Langevin to its theory. The always topical importance in physics of the theory of Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-08 Bertrand Duplantier

In this article we explore the phenomena of nonequilibrium stochastic process starting from the phenomenological Brownian motion. The essential points are described in terms of Einstein's theory of Brownian motion and then the theory…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Deb Shankar Ray

We investigate the motion of an inert (massive) particle being impinged from below by a particle performing (reflected) Brownian motion. The velocity of the inert particle increases in proportion to the local time of collisions and…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Sayan Banerjee , Krzysztof Burdzy , Mauricio Duarte

Quantum Brownian motion of a rod-like particle is investigated in the frame work of system plus reservoir model. The quantum mechanical and classical limit for both translational and rotational motions are discussed. Correlation functions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Z. Nasr , F. Kheirandish

The governing equations of Brownian rigid bodies that both translate and rotate are of interest in fields such as self-assembly of proteins, anisotropic colloids, dielectric theory, and liquid crystals. In this paper, the partial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-09 Henrik van Lengerich

This article reports the modeling of inertial rotational Brownian motion as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process evolving on the cotangent bundle of the rotation group, SO(3). The benefit of this approach and the use of a different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-14 Amitesh S. Jayaraman , Jikai Ye , Gregory S. Chirikjian

We consider classical particles coupled to the quantized electromagnetic field in the background of a spatially flat Robertson-Walker universe. We find that these particles typically undergo Brownian motion and acquire a non-zero mean…

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Brownian motion in one or more dimensions is extensively used as a stochastic process to model natural and engineering signals, as well as financial data. Most works dealing with multidimensional Brownian motion consider the different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-10 Michał Balcerek , Adrian Pacheco-Pozo , Agnieszka Wyłomanska , Krzysztof Burnecki , Diego Krapf

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

We investigate the stochastic dynamics of one sedimenting active Brownian particle in three dimensions under the influence of gravity and passive fluctuations in the translational and rotational motion. We present an analytical solution of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-24 Jérémy Vachier , Marco G. Mazza