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Efficiency of a Brownian particle moving along the axis of a three-dimensional asymmetric periodic channel is investigated in the presence of a symmetric unbiased force and a load. Reduction of the spatial dimensionality from two or three…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bao-quan Ai , Hui-zhang Xie , Liang-gang Liu

Security of oscillatory true random number generators remains not fully understood due to insufficient understanding of complex $1/f^\alpha$ phase noise. To bridge this gap, we introduce fractional Brownian motion as a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Maciej Skorski

We present an analysis of Brownian force noise from residual gas damping of reference test masses as a fundamental sensitivity limit in small force experiments. The resulting acceleration noise increases significantly when the distance of…

An efficient method for the calculation of ferromagnetic resonant modes of magnetic structures is presented. Finite-element discretization allows flexible geometries and location dependent material parameters. The resonant modes can be used…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Florian Bruckner , Massimiliano d'Aquino , Claudio Serpico , Claas Abert , Christoph Vogler , Dieter Suess

This lecture addresses the concept of form factor in magnetic scattering of thermal neutrons, analyzing its meaning, discussing its measurement by polarized neutrons and detailing its computation for the ions by the spherical tensor…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-06-05 Rafik Ballou

We discuss the dynamics of a Brownian particle under the influence of a spatially periodic noise strength in one dimension using analytical theory and computer simulations. In the absence of a deterministic force, the Langevin equation can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-28 Davide Breoni , Ralf Blossey , Hartmut Löwen

Brownian thermal noise associated with highly-reflective mirror coatings is a fundamental limit for several precision experiments, including gravitational-wave detectors. Recently, there has been a worldwide effort to find mirror coatings…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-14 N. Demos , M. Granata , S. Gras , A. Amato , G. Cagnoli , B. Sassolas , J. Degallaix , D. Forest , C. Michel , L. Pinard , M. Evans , A. Di Michele , M. Canepa

Optical whispering-gallery-mode microresonators with ultrahigh quality factors and small mode volumes have played an important role in modern physics. They have been demonstrated as a diverse platform for a wide range of photonics…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-18 Xuefeng Jiang , Lan Yang

We derive some of the properties of blackbody radiation using thermodynamic identities. A few of the results reported earlier (in Part 1 of the present paper) will be re-derived here from a different perspective. We argue that the…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-02 Masud Mansuripur

This paper presents a new model of textures, obtained as realizations of a new class of fractional Brownian fields. These fields, called weighted tensorized fractional Brownian fields, are obtained by a relaxation of the tensor-product…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Céline Esser , Claire Launay , Laurent Loosveldt , Béatrice Vedel

Mirror thermal noise is and will remain one of the main limitations to the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors based on laser interferometers. We report about projected mirror thermal noise due to losses in the mirror coatings and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-02 Janyce Franc , Nazario Morgado , Raffaele Flaminio , Ronny Nawrodt , Iain Martin , Liam Cunningham , Alan Cumming , Sheila Rowan , James Hough

We study the thermal fluctuation induced interactions between two surfaces containing Brownian charges which are held at different temperatures. Using a dynamical form of Debye-H\"uckel theory implemented within the stochastic equation for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-11 B. -S. Lu , D. S. Dean , R. Podgornik

Nonergodic Brownian motion is elucidated within the framework of the generalized Langevin equation. For thermal noise yielding either a vanishing or a divergent zero-frequency friction strength, the non-Markovian Browninan dynamics exhibits…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jing-Dong Bao , Yi-Zhong Zhuo , Fernando A. Oliveira , Peter Hänggi

Thermal frequency fluctuations in optical cavities limit the sensitivity of precision experiments ranging from gravitational wave observatories to optical atomic clocks. Conventional modeling of these noises assumes a linear response of the…

We modified the modal expansion, which is the traditional method used to calculate thermal noise. This advanced modal expansion provides physical insight about the discrepancy between the actual thermal noise caused by inhomogeneously…

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The sensitivity of current and planned gravitational wave interferometric detectors is limited, in the most critical frequency region around 100 Hz, by a combination of quantum noise and thermal noise. The latter is dominated by Brownian…

Thermodynamical fluctuations of temperature in mirrors of gravitational wave antennae may be transformed into additional noise not only through thermal expansion coefficient but also through temperature dependence of refraction index. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 V. B. Braginsky , M. L. Gorodetsky , S. P. Vyatchanin

We introduce a method for computing quantum mechanical forces through surface integrals over the stress tensor within the framework of density functional theory. This approach avoids the inaccuracies of traditional force calculations using…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Moritz Gubler , Jonas A. Finkler , Stig Rune Jensen , Stefan Goedecker , Luca Frediani

Brownian motion near soft surfaces is a situation widely encountered in nanoscale and biological physics. However, a complete theoretical description is lacking to date. Here, we theoretically investigate the dynamics of a two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Yilin Ye , Yacine Amarouchene , Raphaël Sarfati , David S. Dean , Thomas Salez

Having a priori knowledge of the force acting on a noisy system it is possible to solve the issue relative to the interpretation of multiplicative noise terms (aka Ito-Stratonovich dilemma). We experimentally show that for a Brownian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-15 Giovanni Volpe , Laurent Helden , Thomas Brettschneider , Jan Wehr , Clemens Bechinger