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The problem of Brownian motion in a periodic potential, under the influence of external forcing, which is either random or periodic in time, is studied in this paper. Multiscale techniques are used to derive general formulae for the steady…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Pavliotis

We consider an open (Brownian) classical harmonic oscillator in contact with a non-Markovian thermal bath and described by the generalized Langevin equation. When the bath's spectrum has a finite upper cutoff frequency, the oscillator may…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-02 Alex V. Plyukhin

We compute the quantum work distribution for a driven Morse oscillator. To this end, we solve the time-dependent dynamics for a scale-invariant process, from which the exact expressions for the transition probabilities are found. Special…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-21 Alison Leonard , Sebastian Deffner

Optical tweezers setup is often used to probe the motion of individual tracer particle, which promotes the study of relaxation dynamics of a generic process confined in a harmonic potential. We uncover the dependence of ensemble- and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-15 Xudong Wang , Yao Chen , Weihua Deng

We investigate a system of Brownian particles weakly bound by attractive parity-symmetric potentials that grow at large distances as $V(x) \sim |x|^\alpha$, with $0 < \alpha < 1$. The probability density function $P(x,t)$ at long times…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-24 Lucianno Defaveri , Eli Barkai , David A. Kessler

Brownian oscillator, i.e. a micron-sized or smaller particle trapped in a thermally fluctuating environment is studied. The confining harmonic potential can move with a constant velocity. As distinct from the standard Langevin theory, the…

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

We analyze quantal Brownian motion in $d$ dimensions using the unified model for diffusion localization and dissipation, and Feynman-Vernon formalism. At high temperatures the propagator possess a Markovian property and we can write down an…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Doron Cohen

The system of oscillator interacting with vacuum is considered as a problem of random motion of quantum reactive harmonic oscillator (QRHO). It is formulated in terms of a wave functional regarded as complex probability process in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander V. Bogdanov , Ashot S. Gevorkyan

Time-dependent response and correlation functions are studied in random quantum systems composed of infinitely many parts without mutual interaction and defined with statistically independent random matrices. The latter are taken within the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-17 Sudhir Ranjan Jain , Pierre Gaspard

A thermal model of kinetic friction is assigned to a classical loaded particle moving on a fluctuating smooth surface. A sinusoidal wave resembles surface fluctuations with a relaxation time. The Hamiltonian is approximated to the mean…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 Rasoul Kheiri

Stuart-Landau limit-cycle oscillators are a paradigm in the study of coherent and incoherent limit cycles. In this work, we generalize the standard Stuart-Landau dimer model to include effects due to an inertia-like term and noise and study…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-05 Jung-Wan Ryu , Alexandre Lazarescu , Rahul Marathe , Juzar Thingna

We perform extensive simulations and systematic statistical analyses of the structural dynamics of amorphous silicon. The simulations follow the dynamics introduced by Wooten, Winer and Weaire: the energy is obtained with the Keating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-19 Zihua Liu , Debabrata Panja , Gerard T. Barkema

The work fluctuations of an oscillator in contact with a thermostat and driven out of equilibrium by an external force are studied experimentally and theoretically within the context of Fluctuation Theorems (FTs). The oscillator dynamics is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederic Douarche , Sylvain Joubaud , Nicolas B. Garnier , Artem Petrosyan , Sergio Ciliberto

Over the last few decades, classical density-functional theory (DFT) and its dynamic extensions (DDFTs) have become powerful tools in the study of colloidal fluids. Recently, previous DDFTs for spherically-symmetric particles have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-02 Miguel A. Durán-Olivencia , Benjamin D. Goddard , Serafim Kalliadasis

The Brownian motion of a test particle interacting with a quantum scalar field in the presence of a perfectly reflecting boundary is studied in (1 + 1)-dimensional flat spacetime. Particularly, the expressions for dispersions in velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 V. A. De Lorenci , E. S. Moreira , M. M. Silva

The phase space representation for a q-deformed model of the quantum harmonic oscillator is constructed. We have found explicit expressions for both the Wigner and Husimi distribution functions for the stationary states of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Jafarov , S. Lievens , S. M. Nagiyev , J. Van der Jeugt

We propose a general framework to study transformations that drive an underdamped Brownian particle in contact with a thermal bath from an equilibrium state to a new one in an arbitrarily short time. To this end, we make use of a time and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-21 Marie Chupeau , Sergio Ciliberto , David Guéry-Odelin , Emmanuel Trizac

We study the evolution of the energy of a harmonic oscillator when its frequency slowly varies with time and passes through zero value. We consider both the classical and quantum descriptions of the system. We show that after a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 Viktor V. Dodonov , Alexandre V. Dodonov

We investigate the overdamped dynamics of a `passive' particle driven by nonreciprocal interaction with a `driver' Brownian particle. When the interaction between them is short-ranged, the long-time behavior of the driven particle is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-24 Urna Basu , P. L. Krapivsky , Satya N. Majumdar

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with long-range correlations in time; it has been shown to be a useful model of anomalous diffusion. Here, we investigate the effects of mutual interactions in an ensemble of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-15 Jonathan House , Rashad Bakhshizada , Skirmantas Janušonis , Ralf Metzler , Thomas Vojta