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Classical molecular dynamics (MD) has been shown to be effective in simulating heat conduction in certain molecular junctions since it inherently takes into account some essential methodological components which are lacking with quantum…

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An approach to correlated dynamics of quantum nuclei and electrons both in dynamical interaction with external environments is presented. This stochastic quantum molecular dynamics rests on a theorem that establishes a one-to-one…

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Langevin equations for the self-thermophoretic dynamics of Janus motors partially coated with an absorbing layer that is heated by a radiation field are presented. The derivation of these equations is based on fluctuating hydrodynamics and…

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We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of two particles confined in two spatially separated harmonic potentials and linearly coupled to the same thermally fluctuating scalar field, a cartoon for optically trapped colloids in contact with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-12 Davide Venturelli , Andrea Gambassi

We apply the concept of a frequency-dependent effective temperature based on the fluctuation-dissipation ratio to a driven Brownian particle in a nonequilibrium steady state. Using this system as a thermostat for a weakly coupled harmonic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 Robert Wulfert , Michael Oechsle , Thomas Speck , Udo Seifert

The molecular junction geometry is modelled in terms of nuclear degrees of freedom that are embedded in a stochastic quantum environment of non-equilibrium electrons. Time-evolution of the molecular geometry is governed via a mean force, a…

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Energy transfer through quantum coherences plays an essential role in diverse natural phenomena and technological applications, such as human vision, light-harvesting complexes, quantum heat engines, and quantum information and computing.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-23 J. Ma , H. Zhang , B. Lavorel , F. Billard , E. Hertz , J. Wu , C. Boulet , J. -M. Hartmann , O. Faucher

When matter is exposed to a high-intensity x-ray free-electron-laser pulse, the x rays excite inner-shell electrons leading to the ionization of the electrons through various atomic processes and creating high-energy-density plasma, i.e.,…

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Nonequilibrium energetics of single molecule translational motor kinesin was investigated by measuring heat dissipation from the violation of the fluctuation-response relation of a probe attached to the motor using optical tweezers. The sum…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Takayuki Ariga , Michio Tomishige , Daisuke Mizuno

We study stochastic thermodynamics of over-damped Brownian motion in a flowing fluid. Unlike some previous works, we treat the effects of the flow field as a non-conservational driving force acting on the Brownian particle. This allows us…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-23 Jun Wu , Mingnan Ding , Xiangjun Xing

The friction coefficient of fluids may become a function of the velocity at increased external driving. This non-Newtonian behavior is of general theoretical interest as well as of great practical importance, e.g., for the design of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-03 Matthias Post , Steffen Wolf , Gerhard Stock

Simplest extensions of single particle dynamics in momentum conserving active fluid - that of an active suspension of two colloidal particles or a single particle confined by a wall - exhibit strong departures from Boltzmann behavior,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-18 Amit Singh Vishen , Jacques Prost , Madan Rao

Colloids have a striking relevance in a wide spectrum of industrial formulations, spanning from personal care products to protective paints. Their behaviour can be easily influenced by extremely weak forces, which disturb their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-14 Daniel Corbett , Alejandro Cuetos , Matthew Dennison , Alessandro Patti

Biologically driven non-equilibrium fluctuations are often characterized by their non-Gaussianity or by an "effective temperature", which is frequency dependent and higher than the ambient temperature. We address these two measures…

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We initially prepare a quantum linear oscillator weakly coupled to a bath in equilibrium at an arbitrary temperature. We disturb this system by varying a Hamiltonian parameter of the coupled oscillator, namely, either its spring constant or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ilki Kim

We propose a stochastic model for intracellular transport processes associated with the activity of molecular motors. This out-of-equilibrium model, based on a generalized Langevin equation, considers a particle immersed in a viscoelastic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-04-15 L. Bruno , M. A. Despósito

We demonstrate that the multicanonical approach is not restricted to Monte Carlo simulations, but can also be applied to simulation techniques such as molecular dynamics, Langevin, and hybrid Monte Carlo algorithms. The effectiveness of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich H. E. Hansmann , Yuko Okamoto , Frank Eisenmenger

We consider a probe linearly coupled to the center of mass of a nonequilibrium bath. We study the induced motion on the probe for a model where a resetting mechanism is added to an overdamped bath dynamics with quadratic potentials. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-09 Christian Maes , Thimothée Thiery

The homogeneous state of a binary mixture of smooth inelastic hard disks or spheres is analyzed. The mixture is driven by a thermostat composed by two terms: a stochastic force and a drag force proportional to the particle velocity. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-24 Nagi Khalil , Vicente Garzó

We derive various exact results for Markovian systems that spontaneously relax to a non-equilibrium steady-state by using joint probability distributions symmetries of different entropy production decompositions. The analytical approach is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-10 Reinaldo García-García , Vivien Lecomte , A. B. Kolton , D. Domínguez