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"\textit{The noise is the signal}"[R. Landauer, Nature \textbf{392}, 658 (1998)] emphasizes the rich information content encoded in fluctuations. This paper assesses the dynamical role of fluctuations of a quantum system driven far from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Yi-Jen Chen , Stefan Pabst , Zheng Li , Oriol Vendrell , Robin Santra

Motivated by the wide range of applicability of the fluctuation and dissipation phenomena in non-equilibrium systems, we provide a universal study scheme for the dissipation of the energy and the corresponding Brownian motion analysis of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Dimitrios Giataganas , Da-Shin Lee , Chen-Pin Yeh

It is well known that in quantum gravity, the very geometry of space and time is subject to continual fluctuation. The mathematical formulation for this old theory is still lacking. This article formulates this more than forty-year-old…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Behzad Tajahmad

Quantum friction, the electromagnetic fluctuation-induced frictional force decelerating an atom which moves past a macroscopic dielectric body, has so far eluded experimental evidence despite more than three decades of theoretical studies.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 J. Klatt , M. B. Farias , D. A. R. Dalvit , S. Y. Buhmann

A net force can arise on objects which lie in systems with complex energy partitions, even if the system is on average stationary. These forces are usually called fluctuation forces, as they arise due to the objects modifying the character…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-15 Daniel Putt , Rodolfo Ostilla-Mónico

While techniques to compute thermal fluctuation induced, or pseudo-Casimir, forces in equilibrium systems are well established, the same is not true for non-equilibrium cases. We present a general formalism that allows us to unambiguously…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-10 David S. Dean , Ajay Gopinathan

Liquid-solid phase transition and the change of the frictional force of a system with two hard spheres in a two-dimensional rectangular box are discussed. Under controlling the pressure or the supply of energy from the wall, the solid like…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Awazu

We study experimentally the thermal fluctuations of energy input and dissipation in a harmonic oscillator driven out of equilibrium, and search for Fluctuation Relations. We study transient evolution from the equilibrium state, together…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-28 Sylvain Joubaud , Nicolas Garnier , Sergio Ciliberto

We study the phenomenon of quantum friction in a system consisting of a polarizable atom moving at a constant speed parallel to a metallic plate. The metal is described using a charged hydrodynamic model for the electrons. This model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Kunmin Wu , Thomas L. Schmidt , M. Belén Farias

The research herein studies the Langevin dynamics allowing for an exchange of energy between liquid crystals and the thermal environment. This dynamics leads to fluctuation and dissipation behaviors in the motions of liquid crystals, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-08 I. L. Ho

While Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory (MFT) has been highly successful in analyzing non-equilibrium steady states, its application to non-steady-state processes remains limited. In this study, we apply MFT to the relaxation process of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-27 Daisuke Suzuki , Tomohiro Sasamoto

Quantum scattering is used ubiquitously in both experimental and theoretical physics across a wide range of disciplines, from high-energy physics to mesoscopic physics. In this work, we uncover universal relations for the energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Samuel L. Jacob , John Goold , Gabriel T. Landi , Felipe Barra

The fluctuation-dissipation theorem is a central theorem in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics by which the evolution of velocity fluctuations of the Brownian particle under a fluctuating environment is intimately related to its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Tai-Hung Wu , Da-Shin Lee

A new generation of experiments on dry macroscopic friction has revealed that the transition from static to dynamic friction is essentially a spatially and temporally non-uniform process, initiated by a rupture-like detachment front. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-23 Naum I. Gershenzon , Gust Bambakidis

Based on a fully relativistic framework and the assumption of local equilibrium, we describe a simple mechanism of quantum friction for a particle moving parallel to a dielectric. The Cherenkov effect explains how the bare ground state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Gregor Pieplow , Carsten Henkel

We give a proof of transient fluctuation relations for the entropy production (dissipation function) in nonequilibrium systems, which is valid for most time reversible dynamics. We then consider the conditions under which a transient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Debra J. Searles , Lamberto Rondoni , Denis J. Evans

We examine a two-dimensional system of sterically repulsive interacting disks where each particle runs in a random direction. This system is equivalent to a run-and-tumble dynamics system in the limit where the run time is infinite. At low…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-06 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

We use the theory of the fluctuating electromagnetic field to calculate the frictional drag between nearby two-and three dimensional electron systems. The frictional drag results from coupling via a fluctuating electromagnetic field, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. I. Volokitin , B. N. J. Persson

This study discusses the quantum behavior of a particle, which is controlled by fluctuations in the physical space-time (ST) variables, rather than provides a novel interpretation of quantum theory. The fluctuations, i.e., inhomogeneities…

General Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Valery Egorushkin

We derive an integral fluctuation theorem (FT) in a general setup of cavity quantum electrodynamics systems. In the derivation, a key difficulty lies in a diverging behavior of entropy change arising from the zero-temperature limit of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-19 Tatsuro Yuge , Makoto Yamaguchi