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Resetting a stochastic process is an important problem describing the evolution of physical, biological and other systems which are continually returned to their certain fixed point. We consider the motion of a subdiffusive particle with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-18 Aleksander A. Stanislavsky

In this Topical Review we consider stochastic processes under resetting, which have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. We begin with the simple example of a diffusive particle whose position is reset randomly in time with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

The optimal protocols for the irreversible work achieve their maximum usefulness if their work fluctuations are the smallest ones. In this work, for classical and isothermal processes subjected to finite-time and weak drivings, I show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-14 Pierre Nazé

Jarzynski's equality sets a strong bound on the probability of violating the second law of thermodynamics by extracting work beyond the free energy difference. We derive finite-time refinements to this bound for driven systems in contact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-19 Harry J. D. Miller , Martí Perarnau-Llobet

We study the dynamics of overdamped Brownian particles diffusing in conservative force fields and undergoing stochastic resetting to a given location with a generic space-dependent rate of resetting. We present a systematic approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-15 Édgar Roldán , Shamik Gupta

A result of great theoretical and experimental interest, Jarzynski equality predicts a free energy change $\Delta F$ of a system at inverse temperature $\beta$ from an ensemble average of non-equilibrium exponential work, i.e., $\langle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-18 Juan D. Jaramillo , Jiawen Deng , Jiangbin Gong

We study the non-equilibrium steady states and first passage properties of a Brownian particle with position $X$ subject to an external confining potential of the form $V(X)=\mu|X|$, and that is switched on and off stochastically. Applying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-11 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar , Grégory Schehr

We study the effects of an intermittent harmonic potential of strength $\mu = \mu_0 \nu$ -- that switches on and off stochastically at a constant rate $\gamma$, on an overdamped Brownian particle with damping coefficient $\nu$. This can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Ion Santra , Santanu Das , Sujit Kumar Nath

We propose a generalization of the stochastic resetting mechanism for a Brownian particle diffusing in a one-dimensional periodic potential: randomly in time, the particle gets reset at the bottom of the potential well it was in. Numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-18 Pulak K. Ghosh , Shubhadip Nayak , Jianli Liu , Yunyun Li , Fabio Marchesoni

We investigate the work fluctuations in an overdamped non-equilibrium process that is stopped at a stochastic time. The latter is characterized by a first passage event that marks the completion of the non-equilibrium process. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-20 Iago N Mamede , Prashant Singh , Arnab Pal , Carlos E. Fiore , Karel Proesmans

The theory of stochastic resetting asserts that restarting a stochastic process can expedite its completion. In this paper, we study the escape process of a Brownian particle in an open Hamiltonian system that suffers noise-enhanced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-23 Julia Cantisán , Alexandre R. Nieto , Jesús M. Seoane , Miguel A. F. Sanjuán

We define common thermodynamic concepts purely within the framework of general Markov chains and derive Jarzynski's equality and Crooks' fluctuation theorem in this setup. In particular, we regard the discrete time case that leads to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-14 Pedro Hack , Sebastian Gottwald , Daniel A. Braun

We investigate an intermittent stochastic process, in which the diffusive motion with time-dependent diffusion coefficient $D(t)\sim t^{\alpha-1}$, $\alpha>0$ (scaled Brownian motion), is stochastically reset to its initial position and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Anna S. Bodrova , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Igor M. Sokolov

We consider a single Brownian particle in one dimension in a medium at a constant temperature in the underdamped regime. We stochastically reset the position of the Brownian particle to a fixed point in the space with a constant rate $r$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Deepak Gupta

We consider the dynamical evolution of a Brownian particle undergoing stochastic resetting, meaning that after random periods of time it is forced to return to the starting position. The intervals after which the random motion is stopped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-19 Mattia Radice

We study a Brownian particle diffusing under a time-modulated stochastic resetting mechanism to a fixed position. The rate of resetting r(t) is a function of the time t since the last reset event. We derive a sufficient condition on r(t)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-18 Arnab Pal , Anupam Kundu , Martin R. Evans

We give a field-theoretic proof of the nonequilibrium work relations for a space dependent field with stochastic dynamics. The path integral representation and its symmetries allow us to derive Jarzynski's equality. In addition, we derive a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-01 Kirone Mallick , Moshe Moshe , Henri Orland

Stochastic processes offer a fundamentally different paradigm of dynamics than deterministic processes, the most prominent example of the latter being Newton's laws of motion. Here, we discuss in a pedagogical manner a simple and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-15 Shamik Gupta , Arun M. Jayannavar

In the classical stochastic resetting problem, a particle, moving according to some stochastic dynamics, undergoes random interruptions that bring it to a selected domain, and then, the process recommences. Hitherto, the resetting mechanism…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-08 Carlos A. Plata , Deepak Gupta , Sandro Azaele

The fluctuation theorems, and in particular, the Jarzynski equality, are the most important pillars of modern non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. We extend the quantum Jarzynski equality together with the Two-Time Measurement Formalism…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-01 Anthony Bartolotta , Sebastian Deffner