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We consider a system of interacting particles governed by the generalized Langevin equation (GLE) in the presence of external confining potentials, singular repulsive forces, as well as memory kernels. Using a Mori-Zwanzig approach, we…
A linear open quantum system consisting of a harmonic oscillator linearly coupled to an infinite set of independent harmonic oscillators is considered; these oscillators have a general spectral density function and are initially in a…
A fundamental challenge of the theory of liquids is to understand the similarities and differences in the macroscopic dynamics of both colloidal and atomic liquids, which originate in the (Newtonian or Brownian) nature of the microscopic…
We provide a fully quantum description of a mechanical oscillator in the presence of thermal environmental noise by means of a quantum Langevin formulation based on quantum stochastic calculus. The system dynamics is determined by symmetry…
We discuss the use of a Langevin equation with a colored (correlated) noise to perform constant-temperature molecular dynamics simulations. Since the equations of motion are linear in nature, it is easy to predict the response of a…
The Kramers' theory of activated processes is generalized for nonequilibrium open one-dimensional systems. We consider both the internal noise due to thermal bath and the external noise which are stationary, Gaussian and are characterized…
Generalized Langevin equations (GLEs) provide a powerful framework for describing slow dynamics in soft-matter systems, but deriving an exact homogeneous GLE (hGLE) for a reaction coordinate from an underlying many-body system remains…
The method of the nonequilibrium statistical operator developed by D. N. Zubarev is employed to analyse and derive generalized transport and kinetic equations. The degrees of freedom in solids can often be represented as a few interacting…
In this paper, we study a non-Markovian generalized relativistic Langevin equation (GRLE). We show that when the memory kernel is a sum of exponentials, the GRLE is equivalent to a Markovian system with added variables. We establish the…
The Mori-Zwanzig formalism is a powerful theoretical framework for deriving equations of motion for coarse-grained observables in the form of generalized Langevin equations (GLEs) involving evolution and projection operators. Using a…
Recently, we have shown how a colored-noise Langevin equation can be used in the context of molecular dynamics as a tool to obtain dynamical trajectories whose properties are tailored to display desired sampling features. In the present…
In the frames of classical mechanics the generalized Langevin equation is derived for an arbitrary mechanical subsystem coupled to the harmonic bath of a solid. A time-acting temperature operator is introduced for the quantum Klein-Kramers…
We derive generalized Langevin equations (GLEs) for single beads in linear elastic networks. In particular, the derivations of the GLEs are conducted without employing normal modes, resulting in two distinct representations in terms of…
Open quantum systems play a central role in contemporary nanoscale technologies, including molecular electronics, quantum heat engines, quantum computation and information processing. A major theoretical challenge is to construct dynamical…
We have presented a simple approach to quantum theory of Brownian motion and barrier crossing dynamics. Based on an initial coherent state representation of bath oscillators and an equilibrium canonical distribution of quantum mechanical…
The Schr\"odinger-Langevin (SL) equation is considered as an effective open quantum system formalism suitable for phenomenological applications involving a quantum subsystem interacting with a thermal bath. We focus on two open issues…
The modified Langevin noise formalism has been proposed for the correct charaterization of quantum electromagnetic fields in the presence of finite-sized lossy dielectric objects in free space. The main modification to the original one…
We study the relaxation process in normal and anomalous diffusion regimes for systems described by a generalized Langevin equation (GLE). We demonstrate the existence of a very general correlation function which describes the relaxation…
We generalize the oscillator model of a particle interacting with a thermal reservoir by introducing arbitrary nonlinear couplings in the particle coordinates.The equilibrium positions of the heat bath oscillators are promoted to space-time…
This article discusses the numerical result predicted by the quantum Langevin equation of the generalized diffusion function of a Brownian particle immersed in an Ohmic quantum bath of harmonic oscillators. The time dependence of the…