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Monitoring and modelling the power grid frequency is key to ensuring stability in the electrical power system. Many tools exist to investigate the detailed deterministic dynamics and especially the bulk behaviour of the frequency. However,…

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We demonstrate that waves in distinct layers of a neuronal network can become phase-locked by common spatiotemporal noise. This phenomenon is studied for stationary bumps, traveling waves, and breathers. A weak noise expansion is used to…

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Spontaneous synchronisation is a collective phenomenon that can occur in both dynamical classical and quantum systems. Here, we analyse the spontaneous synchronisation dynamics of vibrations assisting energy transfer in a bio-inspired…

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Stochastic thermodynamics as reviewed here systematically provides a framework for extending the notions of classical thermodynamics like work, heat and entropy production to the level of individual trajectories of well-defined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Udo Seifert

Living systems operate far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Enzymatic activity can induce broken detailed balance at the molecular scale. This molecular scale breaking of detailed balance is crucial to achieve biological functions such as…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 F. Gnesotto , F. Mura , J. Gladrow , C. P. Broedersz

Stochastic fluctuations of molecular abundances are a ubiquitous feature of cellular processes and lead to significant cell-to-cell variability. Recent theoretical work established lower bounds for stochastic fluctuations in cells for broad…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-06 Brayden Kell , Andreas Hilfinger

In this article, we present a systematic study of the critical behavior of phase oscillators with multiplicative noise from a thermodynamic equilibrium approach. We have already presented the thermodynamics of phase noise oscillators and…

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We study a continuous time stochastic process on strings made of two types of particles, whose dynamics mimics the behaviour of microtubules in a living cell; namely, the strings evolve via a competition between (local) growth/shrinking as…

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We consider synchronization by noise for stochastic partial differential equations which support traveling pulse solutions, such as the FitzHugh-Nagumo equation. We show that any two pulse-like solutions which start from different positions…

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Small systems in a thermodynamic medium --- like colloids in a suspension or the molecular machinery in living cells --- are strongly affected by the thermal fluctuations of their environment. Physicists model such systems by means of…

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Synchronization plays a crucial role in the dynamics of living organisms, from fireflies flashing in unison to pacemaker cells that jointly generate heartbeats. Uncovering the mechanism behind these phenomena requires an understanding of…

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An analysis of transition from chaotic to nonchaotic behavior and synchronization in an ensemble of systems driven by identical random forces is presented. The synchronization phenomenon is investigated in the ensemble of particles moving…

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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 investigate bifurcation phenomena between slow and fast convergences of synchronization errors arising in the proposed synchronization system consisting of two identical nonlinear dynamical systems linked by a common noisy input only.…

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The developing field of stochastic thermodynamics extends concepts of macroscopic thermodynamics such as entropy production and work to the microscopic level of individual trajectories taken by a system through phase space. The scheme…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-30 Cillian Cockrell , Ian J Ford

A noise source model, consisting of a pulse sequence at random times with memory, is presented. By varying the memory we can obtain variable randomness of the stochastic process. The delay time between pulses, i. e. the noise memory,…

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Thermodynamic parameters such as temperature and pressure can be defined from the statistical behavior of a system. Therefore, thermal fluctuation is an inseparable characteristic of these parameters which eventually finds its way into…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Alek Bedroya , Mahmud Bahmanabadi

The synchronization of power generators is an important condition for the proper functioning of a power system, in which the fluctuations in frequency and the phase angle differences between the generators are sufficiently small when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Zhen Wang , Kaihua Xi , Aijie Cheng , Hai Xiang Lin , André C. M. Ran , Jan H. van Schuppen , Chenghui Zhang

Gibbs and Boltzmann definitions of temperature agree only in the macroscopic limit. The ambiguity in identifying the equilibrium temperature of a finite sized `small' system exchanging energy with a bath is usually understood as a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-03-09 Purushottam D. Dixit

The hydrodynamic interactions among bacterial cell bodies, flagella, and surrounding boundaries are essential for understanding bacterial motility in complex environments. In this study, we demonstrate that each slender flagellum can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-07 Baopi Liu , Lu Chen , Ji Zhang