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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Éwerton J. B. Ferreira , Eliza M. B. Guedes , Herondy F. Santana Mota

To obtain further insight on possible power law generalizations of Boltzmann equilibrium concepts, a stochastic collision model is investigated. We consider the dynamics of a tracer particle of mass $M$, undergoing elastic collisions with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eli Barkai

We study the position distribution of a single active Brownian particle (ABP) on the plane. We show that this distribution has a compact support, the boundary of which is an expanding circle. We focus on a short-time regime and employ the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-19 Satya N. Majumdar , Baruch Meerson

We introduce a systematic method for extracting multivariable universal scaling functions and critical exponents from data. We exemplify our insights by analyzing simulations of avalanches in an interface using simulations from a driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-06 Yan-Jiun Chen , Stefanos Papanikolaou , James P. Sethna , Stefano Zapperi , Gianfranco Durin

Fractional Brownian motion is a generalised Gaussian diffusive process that is found to describe numerous stochastic phenomena in physics and biology. Here we introduce a multi-dimensional fractional Brownian motion (FBM) defined as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-14 Jae-Hyung Jeon , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

We study reaction-diffusion particle systems with several interaction mechanisms. As the number of particles tends to infinity, the system admits a mean-field limit describing the bulk behaviour. We focus on determining the propagation…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Matthieu Jonckheere , Seva Shneer

We consider scaled Brownian motion (sBm), a random process described by a diffusion equation with explicitly time-dependent diffusion coefficient $D(t) = D_0 t^{\alpha - 1}$ (Batchelor's equation) which, for $\alpha < 1$, is often used for…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-17 Felix Thiel , Igor M. Sokolov

We describe a novel approach to statistical learning from particles tracked while moving in a random environment. The problem consists in inferring properties of the environment from recorded snapshots. We consider here the case of a fluid…

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In this paper we study the effects of quantum scalar field vacuum fluctuations on scalar test particles in an analog model for the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spatially flat geometry. In this scenario, the cases with one and two perfectly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-03 C. H. G. Bessa , V. B. Bezerra , E. R. Bezerra de Mello , H. F. Mota

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

We construct a model of Brownian Motion on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold associated with general relativity. There are two aspects of the problem: The first is to define a sequence of stopping times associated with the Brownian "kicks" or…

General Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Paul O'Hara , Lamberto Rondoni

Area fluctuations of a Brownian excursion are described by the Airy distribution, which found applications in different areas of physics, mathematics and computer science. Here we generalize this distribution to describe the area…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-01 B. Meerson

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

Brownian motion of a particle with an arbitrary shape is investigated theoretically. Analytical expressions for the time-dependent cross-correlations of the Brownian translational and rotational displacements are derived from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-13 Bodan Cichocki , Maria L. Ekiel-Jezewska , Eligiusz Wajnryb

We consider a directed random walk making either 0 or $+1$ moves and a Brownian bridge, independent of the walk, conditioned to arrive at point $b$ on time $T$. The Hamiltonian is defined as the sum of the square of increments of the bridge…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Servet Martinez , Dimitri Petritis

Fractional Brownian motion (fBm) is a ubiquitous diffusion process in which the memory effects of the stochastic transport result in the mean squared particle displacement following a power law, $\langle {\Delta r}^2 \rangle \sim…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Raviteja Vangara , Kim Ø. Rasmussen , Dimiter N. Petsev , Golan Bel , Boian S. Alexandrov

Overdamped Brownian motion of a self-propelled particle is studied by solving the Langevin equation analytically. On top of translational and rotational diffusion, in the context of the presented model, the "active" particle is driven along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-15 Borge ten Hagen , Sven van Teeffelen , Hartmut Löwen

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

We study a Brownian excursion on the time interval $\left|t\right|\leq T$, conditioned to stay above a moving wall $x_{0}\left(t\right)$ such that $x_0\left(-T\right)=x_0\left(T\right)=0$, and $x_{0}\left(\left|t\right|<T\right)>0$. For a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-28 Naftali R. Smith , Baruch Meerson

We consider a system of particles performing a one-dimensional dyadic branching Brownian motion with space-dependent branching rate, negative drift $-\mu$ and killed upon reaching $0$. More precisely, the particles branch at rate…

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