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Molecular dynamics with the stochastic process provides a convenient way to compute structural and thermodynamic properties of chemical, biological, and materials systems. It is demonstrated that the virtual dynamics case that we proposed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-20 Dezhang Li , Zifei Chen , Zhijun Zhang , Jian Liu

A linear open quantum system consisting of a harmonic oscillator linearly coupled to an infinite set of independent harmonic oscillators is considered; these oscillators have a general spectral density function and are initially in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Esteban Calzetta , Albert Roura , Enric Verdaguer

Microscopic particles suspended in liquids are the prime example of an overdamped system because viscous forces dominate over inertial effects. Apart from their use as model systems, they receive considerable attention as sensitive probes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-10 Johannes Berner , Boris Müller , Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Matthias Krüger , Clemens Bechinger

Motivated by subdiffusive motion of bio-molecules observed in living cells we study the stochastic properties of a non-Brownian particle whose motion is governed by either fractional Brownian motion or the fractional Langevin equation and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-08 Jae-Hyung Jeon , Ralf Metzler

The dynamics of a classical heavy particle moving in a quantum environment is determined by a Langevin equation which encapsulates the effect of the environment-induced reaction forces on the particle. For an open quantum system these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Mark Thomas , Torsten Karzig , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy

Stochastic dynamics in the energy representation is employed as a method to study non-equilibrium Brownian-like systems. It is shown that the equation of motion for the energy of such systems can be taken in the form of the Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bohdan I. Lev , Alexei D. Kiselev

Brownian motion occurs in a variety of fluids, from rare gases to liquids. The Langevin equation, describing friction and agitation forces in statistical balance, is one of the most successful ways to treat the phenomenon. In rare gases, it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-15 Frank Munley

General self-consistent expressions for the coefficients of diffusion and dynamical friction in a stable, bound, multicomponent self-gravitating and inhomogeneous system are derived. They account for the detailed dynamics of the colliding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-20 Jean Heyvaerts , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Christophe Pichon

This paper deals with the analysis of stochastic systems which can be described by a Langevin equation. By the method presented in this paper drift and diffusion terms of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation can be extracted from the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Siegert , R. Friedrich , J. Peinke

The well-known issue with the absence of conservation of angular momentum in classical particle systems with periodic boundary conditions is addressed. It is shown that conventional theory based on Noether's theorem fails to explain the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Vitaly A. Kuzkin

We discuss the stochastic process of creation and annihilation of particles, i.e., the $A^{n} \rightleftarrows B$ process in which $n$ particles $A$s and one particle $B$ are transformed to each other. Considering the case that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-23 Shigehiro Yasui , Yutaka Hatakeyama , Yoshiyasu Okuhara

Aiming to establish a rigorous link between macroscopic random motion (described e.g. by Langevin-type theories) and microscopic dynamics, we have undertaken a kinetic-theoretical study of the dynamics of a classical test-particle weakly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Kourakis , A. P. Grecos

We investigate the influence of a self-propelling, out-of-equilibrium active particle on generalized elastic systems, including flexible and semiflexible polymers, fluid membranes, and fluctuating interfaces, while accounting for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-25 Alessandro Taloni

Chemical signaling is one of the ubiquitous mechanisms by which inter-cellular communication takes place at the microscopic level, particularly via chemotaxis. Such multi-cellular systems are popularly studied using continuum, mean-field…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-11 Ramon Grima

We present in detail a Langevin formalism for constructing stochastic dynamical equations for active-matter systems coupled to a thermal bath. We apply the formalism to clarify issues of principle regarding the sources and signatures of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-26 Lokrshi Prawar Dadhichi , Ananyo Maitra , Sriram Ramaswamy

For the Langevin model of the dynamics of a Brownian particle with perturbations orthogonal to its current velocity, in a regime when the particle velocity modulus becomes constant, an equation for the characteristic function $\psi…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-01 V. A. Doobko , S. V. Zubarev , E. V. Karachanskaya

We revisit a classical continuum model for the diffusion of multiple species with size-exclusion constraint, which leads to a degenerate nonlinear cross-diffusion system. The purpose of this article is twofold: first, it aims at a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Katharina Hopf , Martin Burger

Brownian motion is a central scientific paradigm. Recently, due to increasing efforts and interests towards miniaturization and small-scale physics or biology, the effects of confinement on such a motion have become a key topic of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-13 Elodie Millan , Maxime Lavaud , Yacine Amarouchene , Thomas Salez

We implement molecular dynamics simulations in canonical ensemble to study the effect of confinement on a $2d$ crystal of point particles interacting with an inverse power law potential proportional to $r^{-12}$ in a narrow channel. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-30 M. Ebrahim Foulaadvand , Neda Ojaghlou

Research on pulsar timing arrays has provided preliminary evidence for the existence of a stochastic gravitational background, which, either being primordial or of astrophysical origin, will interact universally with matter distributions in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-15 Manjia Liang , Peng Xu , Congfeng Qiao , Minghui Du , Qiong Deng , Bo Liang , Ziren Luo