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We consider the driven diffusion of Brownian particles in 1D periodic potentials using the recently proposed Stochastic Path Integral Hyperdynamics (SPHD) scheme [L.Y. Chen and L.J.M. Horing, J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 126}, 224103 (2007)]. First,…

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Brownian motion near soft surfaces is a situation widely encountered in nanoscale and biological physics. However, a complete theoretical description is lacking to date. Here, we theoretically investigate the dynamics of a two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Yilin Ye , Yacine Amarouchene , Raphaël Sarfati , David S. Dean , Thomas Salez

The diffusive motion of overdamped Brownian particles in tilted piecewise linear pontentials is considered. It is shown that the enhancement of diffusion coefficient by an external static force is quite sensitive to the symmetry of periodic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Els Heinsalu , Risto Tammelo , Teet Ord

The effects of a "diffusing diffusivity" (DD), a stochastically time-varying diffusion coefficient, are explored within the frameworks of three different forms of fractional Brownian motion (FBM): (i) the Langevin equation driven by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-29 Wei Wang , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

This paper investigates the probability distribution of solutions to McKean--Vlasov stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter H>1/2. Our main contribution is the derivation of the associated…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Saloua Labed , Nacira Agram , Bernt Oksendal

In many instances, the dynamical richness and complexity observed in natural phenomena can be related to stochastic drives influencing their temporal evolution. For example, random noise allied to spatial asymmetries may induce…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-03 K. S. Fa , C. -L. Ho , Y. B. Matos , M. G. E da Luz

Directed transport of overdamped Brownian particles driven by fractional Gaussian noises is investigated in asymmetrically periodic potentials. By using Langevin dynamics simulations, we find that rectified currents occur in the absence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Bao-quan Ai , Ya-feng He , Wei-rong Zhong

The methods of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance belong to the best developed and often used tools for studying random motion of particles in different systems, including soft biological tissues. In the long-time limit the current mathematical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-06 Vladimir Lisy , Jana Tothova

The two-variable Langevin equations, modeling the Brownian motion of a particle moving in a potential and leading to the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation, are shown to give rise to types of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jiulin Du

We propose a Langevin equation to describe the quantum Brownian motion of bounded particles based on a distinctive formulation concerning both the fluctuation and dissipation forces. The fluctuation force is similar to that employed in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Mário J. de Oliveira

Noise induced Brownian dynamics in underdamped medium is studied numerically to understand the firing time of excitable systems. By considering Brownian particles that move in underdamped medium, we study how the first arrival time behaves…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-10 Solomon F. Duki , Mesfin A. Taye

We investigate the impact of intermittent energy injections on a Brownian particle, modeled as stochastic renewals of its kinetic energy to a fixed value. Between renewals, the particle follows standard underdamped Langevin dynamics. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-11 Ion Santra , Kristian Stølevik Olsen

The one-dimensional motion of any number $\cN$ of particles in the field of many independent waves (with strong spatial correlation) is formulated as a second-order system of stochastic differential equations, driven by two Wiener…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Yves Elskens , Etienne Pardoux

The Brownian motion of microscopic particles is driven by the collisions with the molecules of the surrounding fluid. The noise associated with these collisions is not white, but coloured due, e.g., to the presence of hydrodynamic memory.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-04 Scott Hottovy , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Wehr

We analyze the mean squared displacement of a Brownian particle in a medium with a spatially varying local diffusivity which is assumed to be periodic. When the system is asymptotically diffusive the mean squared displacement,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 David S. Dean , Thomas Guérin

We introduce a model of self-propelled particles carrying out a Brownian motion with a diffusion coefficient which depends on the local density of particles within a certain finite radius. Numerical simulations show that in a range of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cristobal Lopez

The properties of the thermal force driving micron particles in incompressible fluids are studied within the hydrodynamic theory of the Brownian motion. It is shown that the assumption used for the hydrodynamic Langevin equation in its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-16 Vladimir Lisy , Jana Tothova , Lukas Glod

We carry out a comprehensive linear stability analysis of active Brownian particle systems around a constant homogeneous state. These scalar models, being important prototypes for the continuous description of active matter, are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Michele Coti Zelati , Lucas Ertzbischoff , David Gerard-Varet

The paper is devoted to the problem of the determination of regular and thermal forces acting on microscopic and smaller objects in fluids. One of the methods how regular forces are determined is the measurement of the drift velocity of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-21 Jana Tothova , Lukas Glod , Gabriela Vasziova , Vladimir Lisy

We consider the motion of a particle governed by a weakly random Hamiltonian flow. We identify temporal and spatial scales on which the particle trajectory converges to a spatial Brownian motion. The main technical issue in the proof is to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Komorowski , L. Ryzhik