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We study the first-passage time to the origin of a mortal Brownian particle, with mortality rate $ \mu $, diffusing in one dimension. The particle starts its motion from $ x>0 $ and it is subject to stochastic resetting with constant rate $…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-01 Mattia Radice

We study far from equilibrium transport of a periodically driven inertial Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential. As detected recently for a SQUID ratchet dynamics (Spiechowicz J. & Luczka J. Phys. Rev. E 91, 062104 (2015)), the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-07 Jakub Spiechowicz , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

Consider a linear autonomous Hamiltonian system with a time periodic bound state solution. In this paper we study the structural instability of this bound state ^M relative to time almost periodic perturbations which are small, localized…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-09-25 Eduard Kirr , Michael I. Weinstein

We discuss the order statistics of the particle positions of a gas of $N$ identical independent particles performing Brownian motion in one dimension in a potential that asymptotically behaves like $V(x) \sim x^\gamma$ for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-26 Zdzislaw Burda , Mario Kieburg , Tomasz Maciocha

Our Recent advancements in stochastic processes have illuminated a paradox associated with the Einstein model of Brownian motion. The model predicts an infinite propagation speed, conflicting with the second law of thermodynamics. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Isanka Garli Hevage , Akif Ibraguimov , Zeev Sobol

We study the dynamics of an active Brownian particle with a nonlinear friction function located in a spatial cubic potential. For strong but finite damping, the escape rate of the particle over the spatial potential barrier shows a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-02 P. S. Burada , B. Lindner

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 study, we investigate the behavior of inertial active Brownian particles in a $d$-dimensional harmonic trap in the presence of translational diffusion. While the solution of the Fokker-Planck equation is generally challenging, it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-08 Manish Patel , Debasish Chaudhuri

Brownian fluctuations arise for any quantity that depends on the stochastic variables of a Brownian particle. In this study, we explore the Brownian fluctuations of a bidimensional quadratic potential that exhibits two regimes: a confining…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-01 Pedro B. Melo , Pedro V. Paraguassú , Eduardo S. Nascimento , Welles A. M. Morgado

We study the deterministic dynamics of a periodically driven particle in the underdamped case in a spatially symmetric periodic potential. The system is subjected to a space-dependent friction coefficient, which is similarly periodic as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Shantu Saikia , Mangal C. Mahato

We study experimentally and theoretically the optimal mean time needed by a free diffusing Brownian particle to reach a target at a distance L from an initial position in the presence of resetting. Both the initial position and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-05 Benjamin Besga , Alfred Bovon , Artyom Petrosyan , Satya N. Majumdar , Sergio Ciliberto

We study the motion of an overdamped colloidal particle in a time-dependent non-harmonic potential. We demonstrate the first law-like balance between applied work, exchanged heat, and internal energy on the level of a single trajectory. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Blickle , T. Speck , L. Helden , U. Seifert , C. Bechinger

Optically trapped particles are often subject to a non-conservative scattering force arising from radiation pressure. In this paper we present an exact solution for the steady state statistics of an overdamped Brownian particle subjected to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-15 M. Mangeat , T. Guérin , D. S. Dean

The transport of interacting Brownian particles in a periodic asymmetric (ratchet) substrate is studied numerically. In a zero-temperature regime, the system behaves as a reversible step motor, undergoing multiple sign reversals of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-31 Rogério M. da Silva , Clécio C. de Souza Silva , Sérgio Coutinho

We study impact of inertia on directed transport of a Brownian particle under non-equilibrium conditions: the particle moves in a one-dimensional periodic and symmetric potential, is driven by both an unbiased time-periodic force and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-25 Aleksandra Słapik , Jerzy Łuczka , Jakub Spiechowicz

We solve the problem of optimal stopping of a Brownian motion subject to the constraint that the stopping time's distribution is a given measure consisting of finitely-many atoms. In particular, we show that this problem can be converted to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Erhan Bayraktar , Christopher W. Miller

We derive a microscopic expression for a quantity $\mu$ that plays the role of chemical potential of Active Brownian Particles (ABPs) in a steady state in the absence of vortices. We show that $\mu$ consists of (i) an intrinsic chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-17 Siddharth Paliwal , Jeroen Rodenburg , René van Roij , Marjolein Dijkstra

The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process of diffusion in the harmonic potential is re-examined in the context of the first-passage time problem. We investigate this problem to the extent that it has not yet been fully resolved and demonstrate exact…

General Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Przemyslaw Chelminiak

We prove a central limit theorem for the momentum distribution of a particle undergoing an unbiased spatially periodic random forcing at exponentially distributed times without friction. The start is a linear Boltzmann equation for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jeremy Clark , Christian Maes

We consider a random walker on a ring, subjected to resetting at Poisson-distributed times to the initial position (the walker takes the shortest path along the ring to the initial position at resetting times). In the case of a Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-30 Pascal Grange