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We rigorously investigate the quantum dissipative dynamics of a ratchet system described by a periodic potential model based on the Caldeira-Leggett Hamiltonian with a biharmonic force. In this model, we use the reduced hierarchy equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Akihito Kato , Yoshitaka Tanimura

We consider the motion of a randomly accelerated particle in one dimension under stochastic resetting mechanism. Denoting the position and velocity by $x$ and $v$ respectively, we consider two different resetting protocols - (i) complete…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Prashant Singh

Transport of a Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential is investigated in the presence of symmetric unbiased external force. The viscous medium is alternately in contact with the two heat reservoirs. We present the analytical…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-03-22 Bao-quan Ai , Liqiu Wang , Lianggang Liu

An asymmetric Brownian particle subjected to an external time-dependent force may acquire a net drift velocity, and thus operate as a motor or ratchet, even if the external force is represented by an unbiased time-periodic function or by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 A. V. Plyukhin

Brownian computers utilize thermal fluctuations as a resource for computation and hold promise for achieving ultra-low-energy computations. However, the lack of a statistical direction in Brownian motion necessitates the incorporation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sho Nakade , Ferdinand Peper , Kazuki Kanki , Tomio Petrosky

We study stochastic resetting of a probe particle in a viscoelastic environment where only the probe is reset while the medium retains memory of its past dynamics. Using a minimal model with finite correlation time, we analyze the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-19 Ion Santra , Debankur Das

This work deals with the overdamped motion of a particle in a fluctuating one-dimensional periodic potential. If the potential has no inversion symmetry and its fluctuations are asymmetric and correlated in time, a net flow can be generated…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-26 Enrique Abad , Andreas Mielke

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 investigate the mean first passage time of an active Brownian particle in one dimension using numerical simulations. The activity in one dimension is modeled as a two state model; the particle moves with a constant propulsion strength…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Alberto Scacchi , Abhinav Sharma

Optimal control of levitated nanoparticles subjected to thermal fluctuations is a challenging problem, both theoretically and experimentally. In this Letter, we compute the time-dependent harmonic confining potential that steers, in a…

We analyze the dynamics of Brownian ratchets in a confined environment. The motion of the particles is described by a Fick-Jakobs kinetic equation in which the presence of boundaries is modeled by means of an entropic potential. The cases…

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Microscopic particle separation plays vital role in various scientific and industrial domains. In this Letter, we propose a universal non-equilibrium thermodynamic approach, employing the concept of Shortcuts to Isothermality, to realize…

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We study the counting of level crossings for inertial random processes exposed to stochastic resetting events. We develop the general approach of stochastic resetting for inertial processes with sudden changes in the state characterized by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-22 Miquel Montero , Matteo Palassini , Jaume Masoliver

We experimentally investigate the phenomenon of a quantum ratchet created by exposing a Bose-Einstein Condensate to short pulses of a potential which is periodic in both space and time. Such a ratchet is manifested by a directed current of…

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The average current of an overdamped Brownian particle moving along the axis of a three-dimensional periodic tube is investigated in the presence of a symmetric potential and a temporally symmetric unbiased external force. Reduction of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Bao-quan Ai , Liang-gang Liu

We analyze the rectified motion of a Brownian particle in a confined environment. We show the emergence of strong cooperativity between the inherent rectification of the ratchet mechanism and the entropic bias of the fluctuations caused by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paolo Malgaretti , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , J. Miguel Rubi

We consider a Brownian particle confined by an external potential and subject to stochastic resetting to the origin. Motivated by the repetitive nature of the dynamics, we describe the process as a thermodynamic cycle of thermal expansion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-28 Oded Farago

A dynamical process that takes a random time to complete, e.g., a chemical reaction, may either be accelerated or hindered due to resetting. Tuning system parameters such as temperature, viscosity or concentration, can invert the effect of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-19 Somrita Ray , Shlomi Reuveni

We employ renewal processes to characterize the spatiotemporal dynamics of an active Brownian particle under stochastic orientational resetting. By computing the experimentally accessible intermediate scattering function (ISF) and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-14 Yanis Baouche , Thomas Franosch , Matthias Meiners , Christina Kurzthaler