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When a Brownian object interacts with non-interacting gas particles under non-equilibrium conditions, the energy dissipation associated to the Brownian motion causes an additional force on the object as a `momentum transfer deficit'. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Antoine Fruleux , Ryoichi Kawai , Ken Sekimoto

The ratchet phenomenon is a means to get directed transport without net forces. Originally conceived to rectify stochastic motion and describe operational principles of biological motors, the ratchet effect can be used to achieve…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-11 Christopher Grossert , Martin Leder , Sergey Denisov , Peter Hänggi , Martin Weitz

We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of dissipative gases of atoms excited to two or more high-lying Rydberg states. This situation bears interesting similarities to classical binary (in general $p$-ary) mixtures of particles. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-04 Ricardo Gutierrez , Juan P. Garrahan , Igor Lesanovsky

We consider a system of non-interacting particles on a line with initial positions distributed uniformly with density $\rho$ on the negative half-line. We consider two different models: (i) each particle performs independent Brownian motion…

We investigate a solvable model for energy conserving non-equilibrium steady states. The time-reversal asymmetry of the dynamics leads to the violation of detailed balance and to ergodicity breaking, as manifested by the presence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Yair Shokef , Gal Shulkind , Dov Levine

We present the stochastic thermodynamics analysis of an open quantum system weakly coupled to multiple reservoirs and driven by a rapidly oscillating external field. The analysis is built on a modified stochastic master equation in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-12 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Andreas Engel , Massimiliano Esposito

We study long-range interacting systems perturbed by external stochastic forces. Unlike the case of short-range systems, where stochastic forces usually act locally on each particle, here we consider perturbations by external stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-04 Cesare Nardini , Shamik Gupta , Stefano Ruffo , Thierry Dauxois , Freddy Bouchet

We examine a biomolecular machine involving a driven, observable process coupled to a hidden process in a kinetically cooperative manner. A stochastic thermodynamics framework is employed to analyze a fluctuation theorem for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-14 D. Evan Piephoff , Jianshu Cao

We present a perturbative study of the response of cold atoms in an optical lattice to a weak time- and space-asymmetric periodic driving signal. In the noninteracting limit, and for a finite set of resonant frequencies, we show how a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Martin Heimsoth , Charles E. Creffield , Fernando Sols

We present an overdamped continuum description of oriented active solids in which interactions respect the symmetries of space but do not obey the principle of action and reaction. Taking position and orientation as kinematic variables, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-16 Balázs Németh , Takuya Kobayashi , Ronojoy Adhikari

It has been shown that the combination of a broken spatial symmetry in the potential (or ratchet potential) and time correlations in the driving are crucial, and enough to allow transformation of the fluctuations into work. The required…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Dante R. Chialvo , Mark M. Millonas

Random matrix theory (RMT) provides a successful model for quantum systems, whose classical counterpart has a chaotic dynamics. It is based on two assumptions: (1) matrix-element independence, and (2) base invariance. Last decade witnessed…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-27 A. Y. Abul-Magd

An active Brownian particle is a minimal model for a self-propelled colloid in a dissipative environment. Experiments and simulations show that, in the presence of boundaries and obstacles, active Brownian particle systems approach…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-17 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

The rectification of unbiased fluctuations, also known as the ratchet effect, is normally obtained under statistical non-equilibrium conditions. Here we propose a new ratchet mechanism where a thermal bath solicits the random rotation of an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-03-21 A. Gnoli , A. Petri , F. Dalton , G. Gradenigo , G. Pontuale , A. Sarracino , A. Puglisi

We present an approach based upon binary tree tensor network (BTTN) states for computing steady-state current statistics for a many-particle 1D ratchet subject to volume exclusion interactions. The ratcheted particles, which move on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-02 Nils E. Strand , Hadrien Vroylandt , Todd R. Gingrich

We consider a massive inelastic piston, whose opposite faces have different coefficients of restitution, moving under the action of an infinitely dilute gas of hard disks maintained at a fixed temperature. The dynamics of the piston is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-06-06 G. Costantini , U. Marini Bettolo Marconi , A. Puglisi

We derive generalized Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations (FDR) holding for a general stochastic dynamics that includes as subcases both equilibrium models for passive colloids and non-equilibrium models used to describe active particles. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Caprini

Bartussek, Hanggi and Kissner studied a rocking ratchet system, in which a Brownian particle is subject to an asymmetric periodic potential together with an oscillating force, and found that the direction of the macroscopic current can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-09 Kumiko Hayashi , Hisatsugu Yamasaki , Mitsunori Takano

The collective non-equilibrium dynamics of multi-component mixtures of interacting active (self-propelled) and passive (diffusive) particles have garnered great interest in the physics community. However, the mathematical understanding of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Deyue Li

Stochastic resetting generates nonequilibrium steady states by interspersing unitary quantum dynamics with resets at random times. When the state to which the system is reset is chosen conditionally on the outcome of a global and spatially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-14 David Soldner , Igor Lesanovsky , Gabriele Perfetto