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Non-Markovianity has recently attracted large interest due to significant advances in its characterization and its exploitation for quantum information processing. However, up to now, only non-Markovian regimes featuring environment to…

A number of random processes in various fields of science is described by phenomenological equations containing a stochastic force, the best known example being the Langevin equation (LE) for the Brownian motion (BM) of particles. Long ago…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-08 V. Lisy , J. Tothova

The Brownian motion of microscopic particles is driven by the collisions with the molecules of the surrounding fluid. The noise associated with these collisions is not white, but coloured due, e.g., to the presence of hydrodynamic memory.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-04 Scott Hottovy , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Wehr

We deduce a class of non-Markovian completely positive master equations which describe a system in a composite bipartite environment, consisting of a Markovian reservoir and additional stationary unobserved degrees of freedom that modulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian A. Budini , Henning Schomerus

Understanding how external driving and dissipation jointly influence the dynamics of open quantum systems is essential for advancing the study of non-equilibrium quantum phenomena and developing quantum technologies. The present study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Roie Dann

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

In order to engineer an open quantum system and its evolution, it is essential to identify and control the memory effects. These are formally attributed to the non-Markovianity of dynamics that manifests itself by the evolution being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 Jan Kolodynski , Swapan Rana , Alexander Streltsov

A Brownian particle moving in a staircase-like potential with feedback control offers a way to implement Maxwell's demon. An experimental demonstration of such a system using sinusoidal periodic potential carried out by Toyabe et al. has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-29 Kiran V , Toby Joseph

We construct a continuous-time, positively divisible non-Markovian process with memory of the initial state that satisfies the differential Chapman--Kolmogorov equation. In the stationary state, the correlation function exhibits exponential…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Bilal Canturk , Gokhan Baris Bagci , Onur Pusuluk

Brownian motion of a particle with an arbitrary shape is investigated theoretically. Analytical expressions for the time-dependent cross-correlations of the Brownian translational and rotational displacements are derived from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-13 Bodan Cichocki , Maria L. Ekiel-Jezewska , Eligiusz Wajnryb

Magnetic nanoparticles are useful in many medical applications because they interact with biology on a cellular level thus allowing microenvironmental investigation. An enhanced understanding of the dynamics of magnetic particles may lead…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-26 Daniel B Reeves , John B Weaver

In nanoscale space and pico- to nanoseconds enormous physical, chemical and biological processes take place, while the motions of involved particles/molecules under thermal fluctuations are usually analyzed using the conventional theory of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-01 Nan Sheng , YuSong Tu , Pan Guo , RongZheng Wan , ZuoWei Wang , HaiPing Fang

We study the motion of an inertial particle in a fractional Gaussian random field. The motion of the particle is described by Newton's second law, where the force is proportional to the difference between a background fluid velocity and the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Georg Schöchtel

We study fluctuations of entropy production for a charged Brownian particle confined in a harmonic trap and driven out of equilibrium by crossed electric and magnetic fields. The magnetic field is constant and perpendicular to the plane of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-19 L. C. González-Morales , I. Pérez Castillo , J. I. Jiménez-Aquino

Statistical properties of Brownian motion that arise by analyzing, separately, trajectories over which the system energy increases (upside) or decreases (downside) with respect to a threshold energy level, are derived. This selective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-02 Galen T. Craven , Abraham Nitzan

We analyze non-Markovian memory effects displayed by the quantum Brownian motion modelled as quantum harmonic oscillators coupled to a bath consisting of harmonic oscillators. We study the time evolution of fidelity, Petz-R\'enyi relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Samaneh Hesabi , Anindita Bera , Dariusz Chruściński

Transport of overdamped Brownian particles in a two-dimensional asymmetric tube is investigated in the presence of nonadiabatic periodic driving forces. By using Brownian dynamics simulations we can find that the phenomena in nonadiabatic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Bao-quan Ai

Non-typical transport phenomena may arise when randomly driven particles remain in an active relationship with the environment instead of being passive. If we attribute to Brownian particles an ability to induce alterations of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Piotr Garbaczewski

In the air surrounding us, how does a particle diffuse? Thanks to Einstein and other pioneers,it has been well known that generally the particle will undergo the Brownian motion, and in the last century this insight has been corroborated by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-16 Jinghua Yang , Yong Zhang , Jiao Wang , Hong Zhao

We analyze the translational and rotational motion of an ellipsoidal Brownian particle from the viewpoint of stochastic thermodynamics. The particle's Brownian motion is driven by external forces and torques and takes place in an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-19 Raffaele Marino , Ralf Eichhorn , Erik Aurell