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Brownian motion is a foundational physical process characterized by a mean squared displacement that scales linearly in time in thermal equilibrium, known as diffusion. At short times, the mean squared displacement becomes ballistic,…

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The Brownian motion of a test particle interacting with a quantum scalar field in the presence of a perfectly reflecting boundary is studied in (1 + 1)-dimensional flat spacetime. Particularly, the expressions for dispersions in velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 V. A. De Lorenci , E. S. Moreira , M. M. Silva

We investigate the Brownian motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field. We study this in the high temperature classical and low temperature quantum domains. In both domains, we observe a transition of the mean square displacement from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Urbashi Satpathi , Supurna Sinha

We consider a single Brownian particle in a spatially symmetric, periodic system far from thermal equilibrium. This setup can be readily realized experimentally. Upon application of an external static force F, the average particle velocity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ralf Eichhorn , Peter Reimann , Peter Hänggi

A classical model of Brownian motion consists of a heavy molecule submerged into a gas of light atoms in a closed container. In this work we study a 2D version of this model, where the molecule is a heavy disk of mass M and the gas is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-12-02 N. Chernov , D. Dolgopyat

We discuss the properties of an ideal relativistic gas of events possessing Bose-Einstein statistics. We find that the mass spectrum of such a system is bounded by $\mu \leq m\leq 2M/\mu _K,$ where $\mu $ is the usual chemical potential,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 L. Burakovsky , L. P. Horwitz , W. C. Schieve

Analytical expressions are given for the static structure factor S(k) and the pair correlation function g(r) for uniform ideal Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac gases for all temperatures. In the vicinity of Bose Einstein condensation (BEC)…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Bosse , K. N. Pathak , G. S. Singh

We show that Brownian motion is spatially not symmetric for mesoscopic particles embedded in a fluid if the particle is not in thermal equilibrium and its shape is not spherical. In view of applications on molecular motors in biological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Susan Sporer , Christian Goll , Klaus Mecke

Surprisingly the looking natural random walk leading to Brownian motion occurs to be often biased in a very subtle way: usually refers to only approximate fulfillment of thermodynamical principles like maximizing uncertainty. Recently, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jarek Duda

We study the thermodynamics of ideal Bose gas as well as the transport properties of non interacting bosons and fermions in a one dimensional quasi-periodic potential, namely Aubry-Andr\'e (AA) model at finite temperature. For bosons in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-08 Nilanjan Roy , S. Sinha

A master equation with a Lindblad structure is derived, which describes the interaction of a test particle with a macroscopic system and is expressed in terms of the operator valued dynamic structure factor of the system. In the case of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Bassano Vacchini

We discuss the properties of an ideal relativistic gas of events possessing Bose-Einstein statistics. We find that the mass spectrum of such a system is bounded by $\mu \leq m\leq 2M/\mu _K,$ where $\mu $ is the usual chemical potential,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Burakovsky , L. P. Horwitz , W. C. Schieve

The Brownian motion of a quantum particle in a harmonic confining potential and coupled to a harmonic quantum thermal bath is exactly solvable. It is shown that at low enough temperatures the stationary state is non-Gibbsian due to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen , A. E. Allahverdyan

In this work, improvements are introduced to the current models of the ideal Fermi gas and the ideal Bose gas by incorporating the quantum nature of phase space, which is directly linked to the uncertainty principle. These improved models…

The Brownian motion of a particle in a one-dimensional periodic potential subjected to a uniform external force F is studied. Using the formula for the diffusion coefficient D obtained by other authors and an alternative one derived from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kazuo Sasaki , Satoshi Amari

We study the dynamics of an overdamped Brownian particle in a thermal bath that contains a dilute solution of active particles. The particle moves in a harmonic potential and experiences Poisson shot-noise kicks with specified amplitude…

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Brownian motion of particle interacting with atoms of ideal gas is discussed as a key problem of kinetics lying at the border between ``dead'' systems like the Lorentz gas or formal constructs of conceptual Boltzmannian kinetics and actual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-06-26 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

Thermodynamics of a spin-1 Bose gas with ferromagnetic interactions are investigated via the mean-field theory. It is apparently shown in the specific heat curve that the system undergoes two phase transitions, the ferromagnetic transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chengjun Tao , Peilin Wang , Jihong Qin , Qiang Gu

Quantum Brownian motion in a periodic cosine potential is studied and a simple estimate of the tunneling effect is obtained in the frames of a quasi-equilibrium semiclassical approach. It is shown that the latter is applicable for heavy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-19 R. Tsekov

Explicit density expansions of non-equilibrium probability distribution functions for molecular Brownian particle in ideal gas are obtained in original form what visually implies (is exact solution to) the previously established dynamical…

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