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Brownian computers utilize thermal fluctuations as a resource for computation and hold promise for achieving ultra-low-energy computations. However, the lack of a statistical direction in Brownian motion necessitates the incorporation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sho Nakade , Ferdinand Peper , Kazuki Kanki , Tomio Petrosky

The fundamental insight into Brownian motion by Einstein is that all substances exhibit continual fluctuations due to thermal agitation balancing with the frictional resistance. However, even at thermal equilibrium, biological activity can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-19 Soya Shinkai , Yuichi Togashi

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

We study the Brownian motion of a classical particle in one-dimensional inhomogeneous environments where the transition probabilities follow quasiperiodic or aperiodic distributions. Exploiting an exact correspondence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Igloi , L. Turban , H. Rieger

In this paper, a comprehensive examination of the temperature- and bias-dependent diffusion regimes of underdamped Brownian particles is presented. A temperature threshold for a transition between anomalous and normal diffusive behaviors is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-16 Trey Jiron , Marygrace Prinster , Jarrod Schiffbauer

The non-thermal nature of self-propelling colloids offers new insights into non-equilibrium physics. The central mathematical model to describe their trajectories is active Brownian motion, where a particle moves with a constant speed,…

Inspired by one--dimensional light--particle systems, the dynamics of a non-Hamiltonian system with long--range forces is investigated. While the molecular dynamics does not reach an equilibrium state, it may be approximated in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-23 Romain Bachelard , Nicola Piovella , Shamik Gupta

Diffusive transport of particles or, more generally, small objects is a ubiquitous feature of physical and chemical reaction systems. In configurations containing confining walls or constrictions transport is controlled both by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-22 P. Sekhar Burada , Peter Hanggi , Fabio Marchesoni , Gerhard Schmid , Peter Talkner

A considerable number of systems have recently been reported in which Brownian yet non-Gaussian dynamics was observed. These are processes characterised by a linear growth in time of the mean squared displacement, yet the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-26 V. Sposini , A. V. Chechkin , F. Seno , G. Pagnini , R. Metzler

The motion of a Brownian particle in the presence of Coulomb friction and an asymmetric spatial potential was evaluated in this study. The system exhibits a ratchet effect, i.e., an average directed motion even in the absence of an external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Massimiliano Semeraro , Giuseppe Gonnella , Eugenio Lippiello , Alessandro Sarracino

Last year in [Phys. Rev. E 102, 042121 (2020)] the authors studied an overdamped dynamics of nonequilibrium noise driven Brownian particle dwelling in a spatially periodic potential and discovered a novel class of Brownian, yet non-Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-22 Karol Białas , Jakub Spiechowicz

Living cells are known to generate non-Gaussian active fluctuations significantly larger than thermal fluctuations owing to various active processes. Understanding the effect of these active fluctuations on various physicochemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-26 Govind Paneru , Jin Tae Park , Hyuk Kyu Pak

As a generic model for transport of interacting fermions through a barrier or interstitials in a lattice, quantum Brownian motion in a periodic potential is studied. There is a duality transformation between the continuous coordinate or…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Sassetti , H. Schomerus , U. Weiss

The thermal ratchets model toggles a spatially periodic asymmetric potential to rectify random walks and achieve transport of diffusing particles. We numerically solve the governing equation for the full dynamics of an infinite 1D ratchet…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-18 Abhranil Das , Soumitro Banerjee

We consider the dynamics of strongly localized systems subject to dephasing noise with arbitrary correlation time. Although noise inevitably induces delocalization, transport in the noise-induced delocalized phase is subdiffusive in a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-28 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , K. Ranjibul Islam , Michael Knap

The weak noise limit of dissipative dynamical systems is often the most fascinating one. In such a case fluctuations can interact with a rich complexity frequently hidden in deterministic systems to give rise of completely new phenomena…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-15 Jakub Spiechowicz , Jerzy Łuczka

Consider a chaotic dynamical system generating Brownian motion-like diffusion. Consider a second, non-chaotic system in which all particles localize. Let a particle experience a random combination of both systems by sampling between them in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-01 Y. Sato , R. Klages

We revealed a right-left asymmetry of the inter-well mean first passage times for the Brownian particles in a ratchet potential under internal white noise. We showed analytically and numerically that this asymmetry gives rise to the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolai Brilliantov , Peter Strizhak

For optimizing a non-convex function in finite dimension, a method is to add Brownian noise to a gradient descent, allowing for transitions between basins of attractions of different minimizers. To adapt this for optimization over a space…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Pierre Germain , Pierre Monmarché

We investigate proteins within heterogeneous cell membranes where non-equilibrium phenomena arises from spatial variations in concentration and temperature. We develop simulation methods building on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-28 D. Jasuja , P. J. Atzberger