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We investigate the thermal responses of a harmonic oscillator chain coupled at its boundaries to heat baths held at different temperatures. This setup sustains a steady energy flux, continuously dissipating heat into both reservoirs. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Michiel Gautama , Faezeh Khodabandehlou , Christian Maes , Ion Santra

We investigate the dynamics of a massive tracer particle coupled to an interacting active bath, modeled as a harmonic chain of overdamped active particles analytically, with an aim to understand the impact of bath interactions and activity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-03 Ritwick Sarkar , Ion Santra

All systems in thermal equilibrium exhibit a spatially variable energy landscape due to thermal fluctuations. Thus at any instant there is naturally a thermodynamically driven localization of energy in parts of the system relative to other…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Reigada , A. H. Romero , A. Sarmiento , K. Lindenberg

It is often argued that a small non-degenerate quantum system coupled to a bath has a fixed energy in its ground state since a fluctuation in energy would require an energy supply from the bath. We consider a simple model of a harmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. E. Nagaev , M. Buttiker

We provide insights into energetics of a Brownian oscillator in contact with a heat bath and driven by an external unbiased time-periodic force that takes the system out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Solving the corresponding Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-06 Mohammad Yaghoubi , M. Ebrahim Foulaadvand , Antoine Bérut , Jerzy Łuczka

We consider an infinite chain of coupled harmonic oscillators with a Langevin thermostat at the origin. In the high frequency limit, we establish the reflection-transmission coefficients for the wave energy for the scattering of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Tomasz Komorowski , Stefano Olla , Lenya Ryzhik , Herbert Spohn

We consider a chain composed of $N$ coupled harmonic oscillators in contact with heat baths at temperature $T_\ell$ and $T_r$ at sites 1 and $N$ respectively. The oscillators are also subjected to non-momentum conserving bulk stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Cedric Bernardin , Venkateshan Kannan , Joel L. Lebowitz , Jani Lukkarinen

The concept of temperature in nonequilibrium thermodynamics is an outstanding theoretical issue. We propose an energy repartition principle that leads to a spectral (mode-dependent) temperature in steady-state nonequilibrium systems. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Peng Yan , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Huaiwu Zhang

We study experimentally and numerically the dynamics of colloidal beads confined by a harmonic potential in a bath of swimming E. coli bacteria. The resulting dynamics is well approximated by a Langevin equation for an overdamped oscillator…

We study analytically the probability distribution of the heat released by an ensemble of harmonic oscillators to the thermal bath, in the nonequilibrium relaxation process following a temperature quench. We focus on the asymmetry…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-29 A. Crisanti , A. Sarracino , M. Zannetti

The non-equilibrium state of two oscillators with a mutual interaction and coupled to separate heat baths is discussed. Bosonic baths are considered, and an exact spectral representation for the elements of the covariance matrix is provided…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 Carsten Henkel

We analyze a system coupled to a bath of independent harmonic oscillators. We transform the bath in chain structure by solving an inverse eigenvalue problem. We solve the equations of motion for the collective variables defined by this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 L. Ferialdi , D. Dürr

We study the dynamics of the oscillating gauged scalar field in a thermal bath. A Langevin type equation of motion of the scalar field, which contains both dissipation and fluctuation terms, is derived by using the real-time finite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-30 Yuhei Miyamoto , Hayato Motohashi , Teruaki Suyama , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We provide a stochastic fractional diffusion equation description of energy transport through a finite one-dimensional chain of harmonic oscillators with stochastic momentum exchange and connected to Langevian type heat baths at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Aritra Kundu , Cédric Bernardin , Keji Saito , Anupam Kundu , Abhishek Dhar

Harmonic oscillator chains connecting two harmonic reservoirs at different constant temperatures cannot act as thermal diodes, irrespective of structural asymmetry. However, here we prove that perfectly harmonic junctions can rectify heat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Na'im Kalantar , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Dvira Segal

We study the dynamics of covariances in a chain of harmonic oscillators with conservative noise in contact with two stochastic Langevin heat baths. The noise amounts to random collisions between nearest-neighbour oscillators that exchange…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-10 S. Lepri , C. Mejia-Monasterio , A. Politi

We discuss the positional fluctuations of a quantum harmonic oscillator in a heat bath. Analytic expressions are given for the probability distribution functions of the oscillator position in general and limiting (classical and ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Shigenori Tanaka , Yuto Komeiji

When coupling thermal baths at different temperatures, negative differential thermal conductivity is typically attributed to nonlinear interactions in the connecting medium. In this work, we demonstrate that such an effect can arise purely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-13 Simon Krekels , Christian Maes , Ion Santra , Ruoxun Zhai

We study the energy distribution in the extended resonant level model at equilibrium. Previous investigations [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 89}, 161306 (2014), Phys. Rev. B {\bf 93}, 115318 (2016)] have found, for a resonant electronic level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Maicol A. Ochoa , Anton Bruch , Abraham Nitzan

We consider two types of strongly disordered one-dimensional Hamiltonian systems coupled to baths (energy or particle reservoirs) at the boundaries: strongly disordered quantum spin chains and disordered classical harmonic oscillators.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-26 Wojciech De Roeck , Abhishek Dhar , Francois Huveneers , Marius Schuetz
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