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A non-equilibrium steady state can be characterized by a nonzero but stationary flux driven by a static external force. Under a weak external force, the drift velocity is difficult to detect because the drift motion is feeble and submerged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Rui Shi , Yanting Wang

We consider a discrete time simple symmetric random walk on Z^d, d>=1, where the path of the walk is perturbed by inserting deterministic jumps. We show that for any time n and any deterministic jumps that we insert, the expected number of…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-12-12 Lung-Chi Chen , Rongfeng Sun

Let $X=(X_t)_{t\ge0}$ be a transient diffusion process in $(0,\infty)$ with the diffusion coefficient $\sigma>0$ and the scale function $L$ such that $X_t\rightarrow\infty$ as $t\rightarrow \infty$, let $I_t$ denote its running minimum for…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-13 Kristoffer Glover , Hardy Hulley , Goran Peskir

Consider a finite system of Brownian particles on the real line. Each particle has drift and diffusion coefficients depending on its current rank relative to other particles, as in Karatzas, Pal and Shkolnikov (2012). We prove some…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Andrey Sarantsev

We consider the degenerate Einsteins Brownian motion model when the time interval of the moving particles before the collisions, is reciprocal to the number of particles per unit volume u(x,t), at the point of observation x at time t. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Isanka Garli Hevage , Akif Ibraguimov , Zeev Sobol

We consider a branching-selection particle system on $\Z$ with $N \geq 1$ particles. During a branching step, each particle is replaced by two new particles, whose positions are shifted from that of the original particle by independently…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-11-06 Jean Bérard

We consider a run-and-tumble particle on a finite interval $[a,b]$ with two absorbing end points. The particle has an internal velocity state that switches between three values $v,0,-v$ at exponential times, thus incorporating positive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-02 Pascal Grange , Linglong Yuan

We consider the motion of a test particle in a one-dimensional system of equal-mass point particles. The test particle plays the role of a microscopic "piston" that separates two hard-point gases with different concentrations and arbitrary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Balakrishnan , I. Bena , C. Van den Broeck

We study exclusion processes on the integer lattice in which particles change their velocities due to stickiness. Specifically, whenever two or more particles occupy adjacent sites, they stick together for an extended period of time, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Miklós Z. Rácz , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

We study a binary Lennard-Jones system below the glass transition with molecular dynamics simulations. To investigate the dynamics we focus on events ("jumps") where a particle escapes the cage formed by its neighbors. Using single particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Vollmayr-Lee

Let $U$ be a domain, convex in $x$ and symmetric about the y-axis, which is contained in a centered and oriented rectangle $R$. \linebreak If $\tau_A$ is the first exit time of Brownian motion from $A$ and $A^+=A\cap \{(x,y):x>0\}$, it is…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Majid Hosseini

The two-dimensional motion of an object on a moving rough horizontal plane is investigated. Two cases are studied: the plane having a translational acceleration, and a rotating plane. For the first case, the motions of a point particle and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Mohammad Khorrami , Amir Aghamohammadi , Cina Aghamohammadi

Motivated by the polynuclear growth model, we consider a Brownian bridge b(t) with b(\pm T)=0 conditioned to stay above the semicircle c_T(t)=\sqrtT^2-t^2. In the limit of large T, the fluctuation scale of b(t)-c_T(t) is T^{1/3} and its…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Patrik L. Ferrari , Herbert Spohn

For $\{B_H(t)= (B_{H,1}(t), \ldots, B_{H,d}(t))^\top,t\ge0\}$, where $\{B_{H,i}(t),t\ge 0\}, 1\le i\le d$ are mutually independent fractional Brownian motions, we obtain the exact asymptotics of $$ \mathbb P (\exists t\ge 0: A B_{H}(t) -…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Krzysztof Debicki , Lanpeng Ji , Svyatoslav Novikov

Microscopic particle separation plays vital role in various scientific and industrial domains. In this Letter, we propose a universal non-equilibrium thermodynamic approach, employing the concept of Shortcuts to Isothermality, to realize…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiu-Hua Zhao , Z. C. Tu , Yu-Han Ma

We consider a system of interacting Brownian particles in R^d with a pairwise potential, which is radially symmetric, of finite range and attains a unique minimum when the distance of two particles becomes a>0. The asymptotic behavior of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Tadahisa Funaki

In this note we consider the time of the collision $\tau$ for $n$ independent Brownian motions $X^1_t,...,X_t^n$ with drifts $a_1,...,a_n$, each starting from $x=(x_1,...,x_n)$, where $x_1<...<x_n$. We show the exact asymptotics of…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Zbigniew Puchała , Tomasz Rolski

The recent paper by Sharoglazova et al. reports an energy-dependent parameter $\nu$ extracted from the spatial distribution of photons in a coupled-waveguide experiment. The authors interpret $\nu$ as the speed of quantum particles, even in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Weixiang Ye

We study dynamics of a classical particle in a one-dimensional potential, which is composed of two periodic components, that are time-independent, have equal amplitudes and periodicities. One of them is externally driven by a random force…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Oshanin , J. Klafter , M. Urbakh