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Characteristic features of tunneling times for dissipative tunneling of a particle through a rectangular barrier are studied within a semiclassical model involving dissipation in the form of a velocity dependent frictional force. The…

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The internal dynamics of active gels, both in artificial (in-vitro) model systems and inside the cytoskeleton of living cells, has been extensively studied by experiments of recent years. These dynamics are probed using tracer particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-28 E. Ben Isaac , É. Fodor , P. Visco , F. van Wijland , N. S. Gov

We consider the nonequilibrium dynamics of a a real scalar field in a degenerate double-well potential. The system is prepared in the lowest free energy state in one of the wells and the dynamics is driven by the coupling of the field to a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Marcelo Gleiser , Andrew F. Heckler , Edward W. Kolb

The rate of noise-induced escape from a metastable state of a periodically modulated overdamped system is found for an arbitrary modulation amplitude $A$. The instantaneous escape rate displays peaks that vary with the modulation from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. I. Dykman , D. Ryvkine

The entanglement between the position and coin state of a $N$-dimensional quantum walker is shown to lead to a thermodynamic theory. The entropy, in this thermodynamics, is associated to the reduced density operator for the evolution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alejandro Romanelli , Raul Donangelo , Renato Portugal , Franklin L. Marquezino

We consider bound and scattering states of the one-dimensional dimer formed by two coupled non-identical atoms when one of them also interacts with the zero-range potential located at the origin. By calculating the dimer localized and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 N. Shypka , O. Hryhorchak , V. Pastukhov

We reveal several distinct regimes of the relaxation dynamics of a small quantum system coupled to an environment within the plane of the dissipation strength and the reservoir temperature. This is achieved by discriminating between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. M. Kennes , O. Kashuba , V. Meden

We investigate a simple model corresponding to particles driven in opposite directions and interacting via a repulsive potential. The particles move off-lattice on a periodic strip and are subject to random forces as well. We show that this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk Helbing , Illes Farkas , Tamas Vicsek

We study depletion dynamics of an open system of weakly interacting fermions with two-body random interactions. In this model fermions are escaping from the high-energy one-particle orbitals, that mimics the evaporation process used in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-01-08 Andrey R. Kolovsky , Dima L. Shepelyansky

Thermal escape out of a metastable well is considered in the weak friction regime, where the bottleneck for decay is energy diffusion, and at lower temperatures, where quantum tunneling becomes relevant. Within a systematic semiclassical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alvise Verso , Joachim Ankerhold

We study a one-dimensional run-and-tumble particle (RTP), which is a prototypical model for active system, moving within an arbitrary external potential. Using backward Fokker-Planck equations, we derive the differential equation satisfied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-27 Mathis Guéneau , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

In Part I of this paper series, a theoretical and numerical model for a a driven pendulum filled with liquid was developed. The system was analyzed in the framework of tuned liquid dampers (TLD) and hybrid mass liquid dampers (HMLD) theory.…

The one-dimensional coagulation-diffusion process describes the strongly fluctuating dynamics of particles, freely hopping between the nearest-neighbour sites of a chain such that one of them disappears with probability 1 if two particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-23 Xavier Durang , Jean-Yves Fortin , Malte Henkel

The escape dynamics in a two-dimensional multiwell potential is explored. A thorough numerical investigation is conducted in several types of two-dimensional planes and also in a three-dimensional subspace of the entire four-dimensional…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

Probing deeper into the existing issues regarding the exit probability (EP) in one dimensional dynamical models, we consider several models where the states are represented by Ising spins and the information flows inwards. At zero…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-11 Parna Roy , Soham Biswas , Parongama Sen

We present a simple model for the turbulent kinetic energy behavior of subsonic plasma turbulence undergoing isotropic three-dimensional compression, such as may exist in various inertial confinement fusion experiments or astrophysical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Seth Davidovits , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Recently, we have experimentally demonstrated a continuous loading mechanism for an optical dipole trap from a guided atomic beam [1]. The observed evolution of the number of atoms and temperature in the trap are consequences of the unusual…

A dynamical system involving a driven pendulum filled with liquid, is analyzed in the present paper series. The study of such a system is conducted in order to understand energy dissipation resulting from the shallow water sloshing and…

A semiclassical formalism is used to investigate the transistor-like behavior of ultracold atoms in a triple-well potential. Atom current flows from the source well, held at fixed chemical potential and temperature, into an empty drain…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Seth C. Caliga , Cameron J. E. Straatsma , Alex A. Zozulya , Dana Z. Anderson

We perform a comprehensive study of a class of dark energy models - scalar field models where the effective potential can be described by a polynomial series - exploring their dynamical behavior using the method of flow equations that has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dragan Huterer , Hiranya V. Peiris