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We study the large-time behaviour of Brownian particles moving through a viscous medium in a confined potential, and which are further subjected to position-dependent driving forces that are periodic in time. We focus on the case where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sreedhar B. Dutta , Mustansir Barma

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

In this thesis, we develop analytical methods to study out-of-equilibrium stochastic processes driven by colored noise, i.e., noise with temporal correlations. These non-Markovian processes pose significant analytical challenges compared to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-07 Mathis Guéneau

We consider a Brownian particle in a harmonic trap. The location of the trap is modulated according to an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We investigate the fluctuation of the work done by the modulated trap on the Brownian particle in a given…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-26 Arnab Pal , Sanjib Sabhapandit

Active microparticles in confining potentials manifest complex and intriguing dynamical phenomena, as their activity competes with confinement. The steady-state position distributions of harmonically bound active Brownian particles (HBABPs)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-13 Sanatan Halder , Manas Khan

We consider a random two-phase process which we call a reset-return one. The particle starts its motion at the origin. The first, displacement, phase corresponds to a stochastic motion of a particle and is finished at a resetting event. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-27 Anna S. Bodrova , Igor M. Sokolov

Inertia is intrinsic to many living and synthetic active systems, from animals and robotic agents to colloidal swimmers, and it strongly shapes transport. Many such systems employ intermittent restart protocols to regulate exploration.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-25 Manish Patel , Amir Shee

Recently Wang et al. carried out a laboratory experiment, where a Brownian particle was dragged through a fluid by a harmonic force with constant velocity of its center. This experiment confirmed a theoretically predicted work related…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. van Zon , E. G. D. Cohen

Inertial effects in fluctuations of the work to sustain a system in a nonequilibrium steady state are discussed for a dragged massive Brownian particle model using a path integral approach. We calculate the work distribution function in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-12 Tooru Taniguchi , E. G. D. Cohen

We investigate the mean first passage time of an active Brownian particle in one dimension using numerical simulations. The activity in one dimension is modeled as a two state model; the particle moves with a constant propulsion strength…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Alberto Scacchi , Abhinav Sharma

We study the mean first passage time (MFPT) to an absorbing target of a one-dimensional Brownian particle subject to an external potential $v(x)$ in a finite domain. We focus on the cases in which the external potential is confining, of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-14 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar

We study the stationary states of an over-damped active Brownian particle (ABP) in a harmonic trap in two dimensions, via mathematical calculations and numerical simulations. In addition to translational diffusion, the ABP self-propels with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-27 Urvashi Nakul , Manoj Gopalakrishnan

Several physical models have recently been proposed to obtain unidirectional motion of an overdamped Brownian particle in a periodic potential system. The asymmetric ratchetlike form of the periodic potential and the presence of correlated…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Mangal C. Mahato , T. P. Pareek , A. M. Jayannavar

The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process is interpreted as Brownian motion in a harmonic potential. This Gaussian Markov process has a bounded variance and admits a stationary probability distribution, in contrast to the standard Brownian motion. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-07 Pece Trajanovski , Petar Jolakoski , Kiril Zelenkovski , Alexander Iomin , Ljupco Kocarev , Trifce Sandev

We analyze the classical problem of the stochastic dynamics of a particle confined in a periodic potential, through the so called Il'in and Khasminskii model, with a novel semi-analytical approach. Our approach gives access to the transient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-19 Antonio Piscitelli , Massimo Pica Ciamarra

We investigate the Brownian diffusion of particles in one spatial dimension and in the presence of finite regions within which particles can either evaporate or be reset to a given location. For open boundary conditions, we highlight the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-04 Gennaro Tucci , Andrea Gambassi , Shamik Gupta , Édgar Roldán

We look at the equilibrium of a Brownian particle in an inhomogeneous space following the alternative approach proposed in ref.[1]. We consider a coordinate dependent damping that makes the stochastic dynamics the one with multiplicative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-07 Avik Biswas , A. Bhattacharyay

We investigate the dynamics of an inertial active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) particle in the presence of stochastic resetting. Using renewal approach, we compute the mean square displacement (MSD) and position probability distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-24 Uma Shankari , Mamata Sahoo

We discuss the statistics of first-passage times of a Brownian particle moving in a highly unstable nonlinear potential proportional to an odd power of position. We observe temperature-induced shortening of the mean first-passage time and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-18 Artem Ryabov , Pavel Zemanek , Radim Filip

The steady state of a Brownian particle diffusing in an arbitrary potential under the stochastic resetting mechanism has been studied. We show that there are different classes of nonequilibrium steady states depending on the nature of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-13 Arnab Pal