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In this work, we study non-Markovian electronic plasma diffusion from a classical point of view, taking into account the effects of the radiation reaction force. The electron Brownian motion is described by a Generalized Langevin Equation…

We present a model for a thermal Brownian motor based on Feynman's famous ratchet and pawl device. Its main feature is that the ratchet and the pawl are in different thermal baths and connected by an harmonic spring. We simulate its…

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Particles kicked by external forces to produce mobility distinct from thermal diffusion are an iconic feature of the active matter problem. Here, we map this onto a minimal model for experiment and theory covering the wide time and length…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-21 Jin Tae Park , Govind Paneru , Chulan Kwon , Steve Granick , Hyuk Kyu Pak

We investigate the dynamics of an inertial active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle suspended in a non-Markovian environment. The particle is additionally subjected to external forces, such as harmonic confinement and a magnetic field. Motivated…

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A model of Brownian particles with the ability to take up energy from the environment, to store it in an internal depot, and to convert internal energy into kinetic energy of motion, is discussed. The general dynamics outlined in Sect. 2 is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benno Tilch , Frank Schweitzer , Werner Ebeling

We study the dynamics of a zero-temperature particle interacting linearly with a bath of hot Brownian particles. Starting with the most general model of a linearly-coupled bath, we eliminate the bath degrees of freedom exactly to map the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Amer Al-Hiyasat , Sunghan Ro , Julien Tailleur

We consider the properties of a one dimensional fluid of brownian inertial hard-core particles, whose microscopic dynamics is partially damped by a heat-bath. Direct interactions among the particles are represented as binary, instantaneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marini Bettolo Marconi Umberto , Tarazona Pedro

We derive and employ a semi-classical Langevin equation obtained from path-integrals to describe the ionic dynamics of a molecular junction in the presence of electrical current. The electronic environment serves as an effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 Jing Tao Lü , Mads Brandbyge , Per Hedegård , Tchavdar N. Todorov , Daniel Dundas

We model a Brownian heat engine as a Brownian particle that hops in a periodic ratchet potential where the ratchet potential is coupled with a linearly decreasing background temperature. It is shown that the efficiency of such Brownian heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-29 Mesfin Asfaw Taye

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 study origin, parameter optimization, and thermodynamic efficiency of isothermal rocking ratchets based on fractional subdiffusion within a generalized non-Markovian Langevin equation approach. A corresponding multi-dimensional Markovian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-27 I. Goychuk , V. O. Kharchenko

We consider different Markovian embedding schemes of non-Markovian stochastic processes that are described by generalized Langevin equations (GLE) and obey thermal detailed balance under equilibrium conditions. At thermal equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-08 Peter Siegle , Igor Goychuk , Peter Talkner , Peter Hanggi

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 investigate the stochastic behavior of a two-temperature Langevin system with non-Markovian thermal reservoirs. The model describes an overdamped Brownian particle in a quadratic potential and coupled to heat baths at different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-20 Eduardo dos S. Nascimento , Welles A. M. Morgado

Based on a microscopic system reservoir model,where the associated bath is not in thermal equilibrium, we simulate the nonstationary Langevin dynamics and obtained the generalized nonstationary fluctuation dissipation relation (FDR) which…

Stochastic model of the Feynman-Smoluchowski ratchet is proposed and solved using generalization of the Fick-Jacobs theory. The theory fully captures nonlinear response of the ratchet to the difference of heat bath temperatures. The ratchet…

In a spatially periodic temperature profile, directed transport of an overdamped Brownian particle can be induced along a periodic potential. With a load force applied to the particle, this setup can perform as a heat engine. For a given…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-02 Florian Berger , Tim Schmiedl , Udo Seifert

We consider an inertial active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle self-propelling in a saw-tooth ratchet potential. Using the Langevin simulation and matrix continued fraction method, the particle transport, steady state diffusion, and coherence…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-30 M Muhsin , M Sahoo

We study the thermodynamics of a Brownian particle under the influence of a time multiplexed harmonic potential of finite width. The memory storage mechanism and the erasure protocol realized by time multiplexed potentials are utilized to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-28 Saurav Talukdar , Shreyas Bhaban , Murti V. Salapaka

In this work the explicit solution of the electronic plasma diffusion with radiation reaction force, under the action of an exponential decay external electric field is given. The electron dynamics is described by a classical generalized…