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The quantum Brownian motion of a single neutral particle with nonzero electric dipole moment placed in a photon gas at fixed temperature and close to a conducting wall is here examined. The interaction of the particle with the photon field…

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We study the influence of the velocity dependence of friction on the escape of a Brownian particle from the deep potential well ($E_{b} \gg k_{B}T$, $E_{b}$ is the barrier height, $k_{B}$ is the Boltzmann constant, $T$ is the bath…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. F. Gelin , D. S. Kosov

A two-dimensional system of particles with tunable repulsive interactions is experimentally investigated. Soft ferromagnetic particles are placed on a vibrating rough plate and vertically confined, so that they perform a horizontal Brownian…

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The transport of independent active Brownian particles within a two-dimensional narrow channel, modeled as an open-wedge, is studied both numerically and theoretically. We show that the active force tends to localize the particles near the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-01 Lorenzo Caprini , Fabio Cecconi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We computationally study the behavior of underdamped active Brownian particles in a sheared channel geometry. Due to their underdamped dynamics, the particles carry momentum a characteristic distance away from the boundary before it is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-23 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

We propose a new mechanism to alter the nature of the potential barriers when a biased Brownian particle under goes a constrained motion in narrow, periodic channel. By changing the angle of the external bias, the nature of the potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-06 P. S. Burada , G. Schmid

We study fluctuations of entropy production for a charged Brownian particle confined in a harmonic trap and driven out of equilibrium by crossed electric and magnetic fields. The magnetic field is constant and perpendicular to the plane of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-19 L. C. González-Morales , I. Pérez Castillo , J. I. Jiménez-Aquino

We consider the influence of active speed fluctuations on the dynamics of a $d$-dimensional active Brownian particle performing a persistent stochastic motion. We use the Laplace transform of the Fokker-Planck equation to obtain exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-08 Amir Shee , Debasish Chaudhuri

We analytically explore the dynamics of a charged active particle coupled to two thermal baths kept at two different temperatures in two dimensions. The particle is confined to an asymmetric harmonic potential and a magnetic field of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-07 M Muhsin , F Adersh , Mamata Sahoo

A Brownian particle performs gyrating motion around a potential energy minimum when subjected to thermal noises from two different heat baths. Here, we propose a magneto-gyrator made of a single charged Brownian particle that is steered by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-12 Iman Abdoli , René Wittmann , Joseph Michael Brader , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Hartmut Löwen , Abhinav Sharma

We study the dynamics of a Brownian circle swimmer with a time-dependent self-propulsion velocity in an external temporally varying harmonic potential. For several situations, the noise-free swimming paths, the noise-averaged mean…

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We consider the thermally activated escape of an overdamped Brownian particle over a potential barrier in the presence of periodic driving. A time-dependent path-integral formalism is developed which allows us to derive asymptotically exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jörg Lehmann , Peter Reimann , Peter Hänggi

The thermodynamics of mesoscopic systems driven by time-varying temperatures is crucial for understanding biological systems, designing nanoscale engines, and performing micro-particle cooling. In this work, we analyze an underdamped…

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Brownian motion in confinement and at interfaces is a canonical situation, encountered from fundamental biophysics to nanoscale engineering. Using the Lorenz-Mie framework, we optically record the thermally-induced tridimensional…

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We investigate the influence of an external magnetic field (torque) on the motion of Brownian particles confined in a channel geometry with varying width. Furthermore, the particles are driven by random fluctuations modeled by the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-05-10 Paul K. Radtke , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

We consider the motion of an overdamped particle in a force field in presence of an external, adiabatic noise, without the restriction that the noise process is Gaussian or the stochastic process is Markovian. We examine the condition for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Suman Kumar Banik , Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri , Deb Shankar Ray

Efficiency of a Brownian particle moving along the axis of a three-dimensional asymmetric periodic channel is investigated in the presence of a symmetric unbiased force and a load. Reduction of the spatial dimensionality from two or three…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bao-quan Ai , Hui-zhang Xie , Liang-gang Liu

We investigate the transport of Brownian particles in a two-dimensional potential under the action of a uniform external force. The potential is periodic in one direction and confines the particle to a narrow channel of varying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Xinli Wang , German Drazer

We study analytically the dynamics of an anisotropic particle subjected to different stochastic resetting schemes in two dimensions. The Brownian motion of shape-asymmetric particles in two dimensions results in anisotropic diffusion at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-02 Subhasish Chaki , Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Hartmut Löwen

We study the Brownian motion of a single particle coupled to an external ac field in a two-dimensional random potential. We find that for small fields a large-scale vorticity pattern of the steady-state net currents emerges, a consequence…

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