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Many active particles are embedded in environments that exhibit viscoelastic properties. An important class of such media lacks a single characteristic relaxation timescale when subjected to a time-dependent stress. Rather, the stress…

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We study the problem of particles undergoing Brownian motion in an expanding sphere whose surface is an absorbing boundary for the particles. The problem is akin to that of the diffusion of impurities in a grain of polycrystalline material…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karl Forsberg , Ali R. Massih

The one-dimensional motion of any number $\cN$ of particles in the field of many independent waves (with strong spatial correlation) is formulated as a second-order system of stochastic differential equations, driven by two Wiener…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Yves Elskens , Etienne Pardoux

Particle-particle interactions are of paramount importance in every multi-body system as they determine the collective behaviour and coupling strength. Many well-known interactions like electro-static, van der Waals or screened Coulomb,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-07-17 Karolis Misiunas , Stefano Pagliara , Eric Lauga , John R. Lister , Ulrich F. Keyser

We study the transport of Brownian particles under a constant driving force and moving in channels that present a varying centerline but have constant aperture width. We investigate two types of channels, {\it solid} channels in which the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-04 X. Wang , G. Drazer

We experimentally investigate the statistical properties of a classical analog of quantum entanglement considering two Brownian particles connected by an elastic force and maintained at different temperatures through separate heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-05 Lakshmanan Theerthagiri , Sergio Ciliberto

We discuss the two-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle that is confined to a harmonic trap and driven by a shear flow. The surrounding medium induces memory effects modelled by a linear, typically nonreciprocal coupling of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-26 Lea Fernandez , Siegfried Hess , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Chern-Simons gauge field theory has provided a natural framework to gain deep insight about many novel phenomena in two-dimensional condensed matter. We investigate the nonequilibrium thermodynamics properties of a (two-dimensional)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-01 Antonio A. Valido

We investigate the Brownian diffusion of particles in one spatial dimension and in the presence of finite regions within which particles can either evaporate or be reset to a given location. For open boundary conditions, we highlight the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-04 Gennaro Tucci , Andrea Gambassi , Shamik Gupta , Édgar Roldán

According to a traditional point of view Boltzmann entropy is intimately related to linear Fokker-Planck equations (Smoluchowski, Klein-Kramers, and Rayleigh equations) that describe a well-known nonequilibrium phenomenon: (normal) Brownian…

General Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 A. O. Bolivar

We present a mechanical analog of a quantum wave-particle duality: a vibrating string threaded through a freely moving bead or `masslet'. For small string amplitudes, the particle movement is governed by a set of non-linear dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Aurelien Drezet , Pierre Jamet , Donatien Bertschy , Arnaud Ralko , Cedric Poulain

Diffusion behavior of Brownian particles in confined spaces was studied for the displacements notably shorter than the confinement size. The confinements, resembling structure of porous solids, were modeled using a spatially-varying…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-24 Daniel Schneider , Rustem Valiullin , Nail Fatkullin

We consider a random model of diffusion and coagulation. A large number of small particles are randomly scattered at an initial time. Each particle has some integer mass and moves in a Brownian motion whose diffusion rate is determined by…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-21 Alan Hammond , Fraydoun Rezakhanlou

A particle subjected to a fluctuating force originated from its interaction with an external quantum system undergoes quantum Brownian motion. This phenomenon is investigated in detail for the case of a particle confined by a harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Ygor de Oliveira Souza , Caio C. Holanda Ribeiro , Vitorio A. De Lorenci

A textbook interpretation of quantum physics is that quantum objects can be described in a particle or a wave picture, depending on the operations and measurements performed. Beyond this widely held believe, we demonstrate in this…

Brownian motion is essential for describing diffusion in systems ranging from simple to complex liquids. Unlike simple liquids, which consist of only a solvent, complex liquids, such as colloidal suspensions or the cytoplasm of a cell, are…

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We study the fluctuation-induced dissipative dynamics of the quantized center of mass motion of a polarizable dielectric particle trapped near a surface. The particle's center of mass is treated as an open quantum system coupled to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Kanupriya Sinha , Yigit Subasi

The dual wave-particle nature of quantum objects is a notoriously unintuitive feature of quantum theories. However, it is often deemed essential, due to quantum objects exhibiting diffraction and interference. We extend the work of…

General Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Geoff Beck

Recently, many interesting features of the hydrodynamically coupled motions of the Brownian particles in a viscous fluid have been reported which are impossible for the uncoupled motions of the similar particles. However, it is expected…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-17 Shuvojit Paul

The influence of the environment in the thermal equilibrium properties of a bipartite continuous variable quantum system is studied. The problem is treated within a system-plus-reservoir approach. The considered model reproduces the…

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