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The dynamics of a linear system embedded in a heat bath environment and subject to non- Gaussian noise is studied. Higher order cumulants in coordinate space are derived and their impact on the dynamics and on asymptotic steady state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 Maximilian Köpke , Joachim Ankerhold

The collective behaviour of statistical systems close to critical points is characterized by an extremely slow dynamics which, in the thermodynamic limit, eventually prevents them from relaxing to an equilibrium state after a change in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-13 Andrea Gambassi

The main subject of the thesis is the study of stationary nonequilibrium states trough the use of microscopic stochastic models that encode the physical interaction in the rules of Markovian dynamics for particles configurations. These…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-07 Leonardo De Carlo

A fundamental challenge in soft matter physics is to describe materials, such as the living cytoplasm and tissues, that are simultaneously active, chemically driven, and exhibit long-lasting memory of mechanical stresses. Here, we construct…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-10 Ryota Takaki , Frank Jülicher

Constructing a thermodynamic framework for nonequilibrium systems remains a major challenge, as quantities such as temperature and free energy often become ambiguous when inferred solely from steady-state properties. Here we take a…

Active matter is rapidly becoming a key paradigm of out-of-equilibrium soft matter exhibiting complex collective phenomena, yet the thermodynamics of such systems remain poorly understood. In this letter we study the nonequilbrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-30 Emanuele Crosato , Mikhail Prokopenko , Richard E. Spinney

These notes are for the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Insitutue on "Scale Invariance, Interfaces, and Non--Equilibrium Dynamics", held at the Isaac Newton Institute, 20--30 June 1994. The four lectures address a number of issues…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Mehran Kardar , Deniz Ertas

This paper gives an overview of recent results concerning the long time dynamics of repeated interaction quantum systems in a deterministic and random framework. We describe the non equilibrium steady states (NESS) such systems display and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Alain Joye

Slow relaxation and heterogeneous dynamics are characteristic features of glasses. The presence of glassy dynamics in nonequilibrium systems, such as active matter, is of significant interest due to its implications for living systems and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-27 Antina Ghosh , Sayan Maity , Vijayakumar Chikkadi

We review the mechanism for transport in strongly anharmonic chains of oscillators near the atomic limit where all oscillators are decoupled. In this regime, the motion of most oscillators remains close to integrable, i.e. quasi-periodic,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Wojciech De Roeck , François Huveneers

Non-equilibrium steady states are subject to intense investigations but still poorly understood. For instance, the derivation of Fourier law in Hamiltonian systems is a problem that still poses several obstacles. In order to investigate…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-10-15 Chiara Franceschini , Cristian Giardina

We propose a first-principles theoretical approach for the description of the aging of the linear viscoelastic properties of a colloidal liquid after a sudden quench into a dynamically arrested (glass or gel) state. Specifically, we couple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-23 R. Peredo-Ortiz , O. Joaquín-Jaime , L. López-Flores , M. Medina-Noyola , L. F. Elizondo-Aguilera

There are two main approaches to non-equlibrium statistical mechanics: one using stochastic processes and the other using dynamical systems. To model the dynamics during inflation one usually adopts a stochastic description, which is known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-29 Vitaly Vanchurin

Bacterial assemblies exhibit rich collective behaviors that control their biological functions, making them a relevant object of study from an active matter physics perspective. Dense bacterial suspensions self-organize into distinct…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-08 Martin Maliet , Nicolas Fix-Boulier , Ludovic Berthier , Maxime Deforet

The interplay between cytoskeletal architecture and the nonlinearity of the interactions due to bucklable filaments plays a key role in modulating the cell's mechanical stability and affecting its structural rearrangements. We study a model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-01 Shenshen Wang , Tongye Shen , Peter G. Wolynes

The mathematical physics of mechanical systems in thermal equilibrium is a well studied, and relatively easy, subject, because the Gibbs distribution is in general an adequate guess for the equilibrium state. On the other hand, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Pierre Eckmann

A periodically driven Fermi gas coupled to a simple boson bath reaches a non-equilibrium steady-state occupation with sharp non-analyticities at certain momenta. Here, we demonstrate that these non-analyticities behave as emergent Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Oles Matsyshyn , Li-kun Shi , Inti Sodemann Villadiego

Minimal models of active and driven particles have recently been used to elucidate many properties non-equilibrium systems. However, the relation between energy consumption and changes in the structure and transport properties of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-03 Clara del Junco , Laura Tociu , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

We propose a variational formulation for the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of discrete open systems, i.e., discrete systems which can exchange mass and heat with the exterior. Our approach is based on a general variational formulation for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura

We develop a mode coupling theory(MCT) to study the nonequilibrium glass transition behavior of a mono-disperse mixture of active-passive hard-sphere particles. The MCT equations clearly demonstrate that the glass transition is shifted to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-10 Huai Ding , Mengkai Feng , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou