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We study the driven Brownian motion of hard rods in a one-dimensional cosine potential with an amplitude large compared to the thermal energy. In a closed system, we find surprising features of the steady-state current in dependence of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-24 Dominik Lips , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass

We discuss the dynamics of a Brownian particle under the influence of a spatially periodic noise strength in one dimension using analytical theory and computer simulations. In the absence of a deterministic force, the Langevin equation can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-28 Davide Breoni , Ralf Blossey , Hartmut Löwen

We study the Brownian motion of a rigid rod threading through a small fixed ring while the ring can freely rotate. We derive the distribution function for the sliding displacement and the unit vector along the rod both at equilibrium and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-02 Zhongqiang Xiong , Shigeyuki Komura , Masao Doi

We explore the effect of asymmetry in the thermodynamic response (work done) of an overdamped Brownian system driven by a time-periodic field when the particle is confined inside a bilobal irregular structure. The spatial irregularity of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-20 Syed Yunus Ali

We provide a comprehensive analysis of the positional dynamics and average thermodynamics of an overdamped Brownian particle subject to both, harmonic confinement and annealed disorder due to a temporarily fluctuating trap stiffness. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-17 Deepak Gupta , Sabine H. L. Klapp

We consider an isothermal machine composed of two Brownian particles (say particle A and B) connected by a harmonic spring. A constant load is attached to particle A, and the particle B is trapped in a harmonic confinement whose minimum is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Deepak Gupta

Consider the first exit time of one-dimensional Brownian motion $\{B_s\}_{s\geq 0}$ from a random passageway. We discuss a Brownian motion with two time-dependent random boundaries in quenched sense. Let $\{W_s\}_{s\geq 0}$ be an other…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-18 You Lv

Brownian motion near soft surfaces is a situation widely encountered in nanoscale and biological physics. However, a complete theoretical description is lacking to date. Here, we theoretically investigate the dynamics of a two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Yilin Ye , Yacine Amarouchene , Raphaël Sarfati , David S. Dean , Thomas Salez

We investigate the efficiency of an isothermal Brownian work-to-work converter engine, composed of a Brownian particle coupled to a heat bath at a constant temperature. The system is maintained out of equilibrium by using two external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-25 Deepak Gupta , Sanjib Sabhapandit

The cumulant generating function of time-averaged current is studied from an operational viewpoint. Specifically, for interacting Brownian particles under non-equilibrium conditions, we show that the first derivative of the cumulant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Takahiro Nemoto , Shin-ichi Sasa

We study the dynamic properties of a thermal autonomous machine made up of two quantum Brownian particles, each of which is in contact with an environment at different temperature and moves on a periodic sinusoidal track. When such tracks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Michael Drewsen , Alberto Imparato

We investigate the impact of intermittent energy injections on a Brownian particle, modeled as stochastic renewals of its kinetic energy to a fixed value. Between renewals, the particle follows standard underdamped Langevin dynamics. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-11 Ion Santra , Kristian Stølevik Olsen

The one-dimensional time-independent Green's function $G_0$ of a quantum simple harmonic oscillator system ($V_0(x)=m \omega^2 x^2/2$) can be obtained by solving the equation directly. It has a compact expression, which gives correct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 Chun-Khiang Chua , Yu-Tsai Liu , Gwo-Guang Wong

We analyse the impact of temperature on the diffusion coefficient of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric periodic potential and driven by a symmetric time-periodic force. Recent studies have revealed the low friction regime…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-28 I. G. Marchenko , V. Aksenova , I. I. Marchenko , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

The theory of adiabatic invariants has a long history, and very important implications and applications in many different branches of physics, classically and quantally, but is rarely founded on rigorous results. Here we treat the general…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marko Robnik , Valery G. Romanovski

We characterize finite-time thermodynamic processes of multidimensional quadratic overdamped systems. Analytic expressions are provided for heat, work, and dissipation for any evolution of the system covariance matrix. The Bures-Wasserstein…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-28 Paolo Abiuso , Viktor Holubec , Janet Anders , Zhuolin Ye , Federico Cerisola , Martí Perarnau-Llobet

This paper is concerned with the stochastic thermodynamics of non-equilibrium Gaussian processes that can exhibit anomalous diffusion. In the systems considered, the noise correlation function is not necessarily related to friction. Thus,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-20 S. Mohsen J. Khadem , Rainer Klages , Sabine H. L. Klapp

The same system can exhibit a completely different dynamical behavior when it evolves in equilibrium conditions or when it is driven out-of-equilibrium by, e.g., connecting some of its components to heat baths kept at different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-09 S. Cerasoli , S. Ciliberto , E. Marinari , G. Oshanin , L. Peliti , L. Rondoni

We investigate the quantum-classical transition in the delta-kicked rotor and the attainment of the classical limit in terms of measurement-induced state-localization. It is possible to study the transition by fixing the environmentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tanmoy Bhattacharya , Salman Habib , Kurt Jacobs , Kosuke Shizume

The two-time correlation function of the displacement of a free quantum Brownian particle with respect to its position at a given time is calculated analytically in the framework of the Caldeira and Leggett ohmic dissipation model (linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Noelle Pottier , Alain Mauger