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We analyze the rectified motion of a Brownian particle in a confined environment. We show the emergence of strong cooperativity between the inherent rectification of the ratchet mechanism and the entropic bias of the fluctuations caused by…

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We present a diagrammatic formulation of a theory for the time dependence of density fluctuations in equilibrium systems of interacting Brownian particles. To facilitate derivation of the diagrammatic expansion we introduce a basis that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Grzegorz Szamel

We investigate the disordered spin-$\frac12$Heisenberg model in two dimensions and employ tree tensor networks (TTNs) with a physics-informed structural optimization of the tree layout, to simulate dynamics in the many-body localization…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-23 Lars Humpert , Dante M. Kennes , Jan-Niklas Herre

We develop a method based on tensor networks to create localized single particle excitations on top of strongly-correlated quantum spin chains. In analogy to the problem of creating localized Wannier modes, this is achieved by optimizing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-03 Maarten Van Damme , Laurens Vanderstraeten , Jacopo De Nardis , Jutho Haegeman , Frank Verstraete

We study numerically the motion of a one dimensional array of Brownian particles in a washboard potential, driven by an external stochastic force and interacting via short range repulsive forces. In particular, we investigate the role of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giulio Costantini , Fabio Cecconi , Umberto Marini-Bettolo-Marconi

We derive the distribution of particle currents for a system of interacting active Brownian particles in the long time limit using large deviation theory and a weighted many body expansion. We find the distribution is non-Gaussian, except…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-19 Trevor GrandPre , David T. Limmer

Density-dependent diffusion is a widespread phenomenon in nature. We have examined the density-dependent diffusion behavior of some biological processes such as tumor growth and invasion [23]. Here, we extend our previous work by developing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-14 Ahmed M. Fouad , Marwa M. Fouad

We propose a model for protein folding in vivo based on a Brownian-ratchet mechanism in the multidimensional energy landscape space. The device is able to produce directed transport taking advantage of the assumed intrinsic asymmetric…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ernesto Gonzalez-Candela , Victor Romero-Rochin

Single-particle tracking allows to infer the motion of single molecules in living cells. When we observe a long trajectory (more than 100 points), it is possible that the particle switches mode of motion over time. Then, fitting a single…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-16 Vincent Briane , Charles Kervrann , Myriam Vimond

We consider the motion of a overdamped Brownian particle in periodic asymmetric potential with space dependent friction coefficient. In the presence of external time periodic forcing, the system shows multiple current reversals on varying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar , Mangal C. Mahato

We combine power functional theory and machine learning to study non-equilibrium overdamped many-body systems of colloidal particles at the level of one-body fields. We first sample in steady state the one-body fields relevant for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-16 Toni Zimmerman , Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt , Daniel de las Heras

The motion of a Brownian particle in the presence of Coulomb friction and an asymmetric spatial potential was evaluated in this study. The system exhibits a ratchet effect, i.e., an average directed motion even in the absence of an external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Massimiliano Semeraro , Giuseppe Gonnella , Eugenio Lippiello , Alessandro Sarracino

Brownian computers utilize thermal fluctuations as a resource for computation and hold promise for achieving ultra-low-energy computations. However, the lack of a statistical direction in Brownian motion necessitates the incorporation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sho Nakade , Ferdinand Peper , Kazuki Kanki , Tomio Petrosky

The transport of self-propelled particles such as bacteria and phoretic swimmers through crowded heterogeneous environments is relevant to many natural and engineering processes, from biofilm formation and contamination processes to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-10 Roberto Alonso-Matilla , Brato Chakrabarti , David Saintillan

We study one-dimensional hardcore lattice gases, with nearest-neighbor interactions, in the presence of an external potential barrier, that moves on the periodic lattice with a constant speed. We investigate how the nature of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-14 Deepsikha Das , Punyabrata Pradhan , Sakuntala Chatterjee

An ensemble of Brownian particles in a feedback controlled flashing ratchet is studied. The ratchet potential is switched on and off depending on the position of the particles, with the aim of maximizing the current. We study in detail a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. J. Cao , L. Dinis , J. M. R. Parrondo

We construct and exactly solve a model of an extended Brownian ratchet. The model comprises an arbitrary number of heterogeneous, growing and shrinking filaments which together move a rigid membrane by a ratchet mechanism. The model draws…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 Anthony J. Wood , Richard A. Blythe , Martin R. Evans

Transport properties of overdamped Brownian paricles in a rocked thermal ratchet with space dependent friction coefficient is studied. By tuning the parameters, the direction of current exhibit multiple reversals, both as a function of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Debasis Dan , Mangal C. Mahato , A. M. Jayannavar

We consider a generic system operating under non-equilibrium conditions. Explicitly, we consider an inertial classical Brownian particle dwelling a periodic structure with a spatially broken reflection symmetry. The particle is coupled to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 P. Hänggi , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

The noise-flatness-induced hypersensitive transport of overdamped Brownian particles in a tilted ratchet system driven by multiplicative nonequilibrium three-level Markovian noise and additive white noise is considered. At low temperatures…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Romi Mankin , Astrid Haljas , Risto Tammelo , Dmitri Martila