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The optimal protocols for the irreversible work achieve their maximum usefulness if their work fluctuations are the smallest ones. In this work, for classical and isothermal processes subjected to finite-time and weak drivings, I show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-14 Pierre Nazé

We derive the distribution function of work performed by a harmonic force acting on a uniformly dragged Brownian particle subjected to a rotational torque. Following the Onsager and Machlup's functional integral approach, we obtain the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-29 Bappa Saha , Sutapa Mukherji

We investigate the stochastic motion of a Brownian particle in the harmonic potential with a time-dependent force constant. It may describe the motion of a colloidal particle in an optical trap where the potential well is formed by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-11 Chulan Kwon , Jae Dong Noh , Hyunggyu Park

We consider a Brownian particle in a harmonic trap. The location of the trap is modulated according to an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We investigate the fluctuation of the work done by the modulated trap on the Brownian particle in a given…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-26 Arnab Pal , Sanjib Sabhapandit

In this work, I derive the time-dependent probability density function of classical observables using the Hamiltonian mechanics approach, extending the notion of fluctuation theorems for any observables. In particular, the time-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-13 Pierre Nazé

We present an exact solution for one-dimensional overdamped dynamics near a hard wall, allowing us to connect steady-state distributions under confinement with the extreme value statistics of unconfined stochastic processes. This mapping…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-05 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey

This work is a numerical experiment of stochastic motion of conservative Hamiltonian system or weakly damped Brownian particles. The objective is to prove the existence of path probability and to compute its values. By observing a large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-09 Lin Tongling , Pujos Cyril , Ou Congjie , Bi Wenping , Calvayrac Florent , Wang Qiuping A

We propose a simple conjecture for the functional form of the asymptotic behavior of work distributions for driven overdamped Brownian motion of a particle in confining potentials. This conjecture is motivated by the fact that these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Viktor Holubec , Dominik Lips , Artem Ryabov , Petr Chvosta , Philipp Maass

We have considered the underdamped motion of a Brownian particle in the presence of a correlated external random force. The force is modeled by an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We investigate the fluctuations of the work done by the external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-19 Arnab Pal , Sanjib Sabhapandit

This paper studies a problem of Bayesian parameter estimation for a sequence of scaled counting processes whose weak limit is a Brownian motion with an unknown drift. The main result of the paper is that the limit of the posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Asaf Cohen

Using the Onsager-Machlup functional integral approach, we obtain the work distribution function and the distribution of the dissipated heat of a Brownian particle subjected to a confining harmonic potential and an oscillatory driving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-29 Bappa Saha , Sutapa Mukherji

We map the problem of diffusion in the quenched trap model onto a new stochastic process: Brownian motion which is terminated at the coverage "time" ${\cal S}_\alpha=\sum_{x=-\infty} ^\infty (n_x)^\alpha$ with $n_x$ being the number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Stas Burov , Eli Barkai

We study the work distribution of a single particle moving in a harmonic oscillator with time-dependent strength. This simple system has a non-Gaussian work distribution with exponential tails. The time evolution of the corresponding moment…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-01 Thomas Speck

We provide a comprehensive analysis of the positional dynamics and average thermodynamics of an overdamped Brownian particle subject to both, harmonic confinement and annealed disorder due to a temporarily fluctuating trap stiffness. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-17 Deepak Gupta , Sabine H. L. Klapp

The fluctuation-dissipation relation for the classical definition of work is extended to thermally isolated systems, in classical and quantum realms. From this, the optimal work variance is calculated, showing it achieves its minimum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-01 Pierre Nazé

We extend the canonical Gibbs distribution, originally formulated for systems at equilibrium, to systems driven out of equilibrium. The stochastic dynamics of a small system are described by a probability distribution over discrete energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Jean-Luc Garden

The linear response of non-equilibrium systems with Markovian dynamics satisfies a generalized fluctuation-dissipation relation derived from time symmetry and antisymmetry properties of the fluctuations. The relation involves the sum of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-07 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Artyom Petrosyan , Sergio Ciliberto , Christian Maes

The complete physical understanding of the optimization of the thermodynamic work still is an important open problem in stochastic thermodynamics. We address this issue using the Hamiltonian approach of linear response theory in finite time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-18 Pierre Nazé , Sebastian Deffner , Marcus V. S. Bonança

At non-zero temperature classical systems exhibit statistical fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities arising from the variation of the system's initial conditions and its interaction with the environment. The fluctuating work, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Rui Sampaio , Samu Suomela , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Janet Anders , Thomas Philbin

We consider the response of a dynamical system driven by external adiabatic fluctuations. Based on the `adiabatic following approximation' we have made a systematic separation of time-scales to carry out an expansion in $\alpha |\mu|^{-1}$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. K. Banik , J. R. Chaudhuri , D. S. Ray
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