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In this review we summarize theoretical progress in the field of active matter, placing it in the context of recent experiments. Our approach offers a unified framework for the mechanical and statistical properties of living matter:…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-13 M. C. Marchetti , J. -F. Joanny , S. Ramaswamy , T. B. Liverpool , J. Prost , Madan Rao , R. Aditi Simha

Quantum dissipation in thermal environment is investigated, using the path integral approach. The reduced density matrix of the harmonic oscillator system coupled to thermal bath of oscillators is derived for arbitrary spectrum of bath…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Joichi , Sh. Matsumoto , M. Yoshimura

Active constituents burn fuel to sustain individual motion, giving rise to collective effects that are not seen in systems at thermal equilibrium, such as phase separation with purely repulsive interactions. There is a great potential in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-16 Luke K. Davis , Karel Proesmans , Étienne Fodor

We study the dynamics of a micromaser where the pumping atoms are strongly driven by a resonant classical field during their transit through the cavity mode. We derive a master equation for this strongly-driven micromaser, involving the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Lougovski , F. Casagrande , A. Lulli , B. -G. Englert , E. Solano , H. Walther

Quantum Darwinism extends the traditional formalism of decoherence to explain the emergence of classicality in a quantum universe. A classical description emerges when the environment tends to redundantly acquire information about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 Graeme Pleasance , Barry M. Garraway

Starting from kinetic theory, we obtain a nonlinear dissipative formalism describing the nonequilibrium evolution of scalar colored particles coupled selfconsistently to nonabelian classical gauge fields. The link between the one-particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Peralta-Ramos , E. Calzetta

We report model calculations of the time-dependent internal energy and entropy for a single quasi-free massive quantum particle at a constant temperature. We show that the whole process started from a fully coherent quantum state to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-20 Jian-Ping Peng

The study of quantum mechanics in non-inertial reference frames, particularly in the context of open systems, introduces several intriguing phenomena and challenges. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for analyzing the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Zi-Fan Zhu , Yu Su , Yao Wang , Rui-Xue Xu , YiJing Yan

We present a formalism for studying the behaviour of quantum systems coupled to nonequilibrium environments exhibiting nonGaussian fluctuations. We discuss the role of a qubit as a detector of the statistics of environmental fluctuations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Clive Emary

By modelling quantum systems as emerging from a (classical) sub-quantum thermodynamics, the quantum mechanical "decay of the wave packet" is shown to simply result from sub-quantum diffusion with a specific diffusion coefficient varying in…

General Physics · Physics 2011-08-30 Gerhard Groessing , Siegfried Fussy , Johannes Mesa Pascasio , Herbert Schwabl

We study the dynamics of quantum systems under classical and quantum noise, focusing on decoherence in qubit systems. Classical noise is described by a random process leading to a stochastic temporal evolution of a closed quantum system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-25 Olli-Pentti Saira , Ville Bergholm , Teemu Ojanen , Mikko Mottonen

There is significant interest in exploring novel phenomena in quantum light-matter interfaces, which are driven by the combination of structured dissipation and long-range interactions that are typical in such systems. To this end, it is…

Active Brownian motion is the complex motion of active Brownian particles. They are active in the sense that they can transform their internal energy into energy of motion and thus create complex motion patterns. Theories of active Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-04 Alexander Gluck , Helmuth Huffel , Sasa Ilijic

The simple algorithm for the simulation and visualization of non relativistic quantum dynamics is proposed that is based on a collective behavior of classical particles. Any quantum particle is represented as the swarm of its classical…

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We propose a model for the motion of a single active particle in a heterogeneous environment where the heterogeneity may arise due to the crowding, conformational fluctuations and/or slow rearrangement of the surroundings. Describing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-04 Koushik Goswami , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

Diffusive molecular dynamics is a novel model for materials with atomistic resolution that can reach diffusive time scales. The main ideas of diffusive molecular dynamics are to first minimize an approximate variational Gaussian free energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Gideon Simpson , Mitchell Luskin , David J. Srolovitz

A comprehensive comparison of quantum evolution between the quantum and classical mechanically motion of nuclei in a finite-dimensional quantum chemistry model is presented. A modified version of Tavis-Cummings-Hubbard model with two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Hui-hui Miao

A quantum-mechanical Gaussian wave-packet approach to the theoretical description of nuclear motions in a condensed-phase environment is developed. General expressions for the time-dependent reduced density matrix are given for a harmonic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Muhlbacher , A. Lucke , R. Egger

Particles kicked by external forces to produce mobility distinct from thermal diffusion are an iconic feature of the active matter problem. Here, we map this onto a minimal model for experiment and theory covering the wide time and length…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-21 Jin Tae Park , Govind Paneru , Chulan Kwon , Steve Granick , Hyuk Kyu Pak

Active particle systems of interacting self-propelled particles offer a versatile framework for modeling complex systems. When employed to describe aspects of animal behavior, the complexity of animal movement and decision-making often…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-01-09 Amir Haluts , Dan Gorbonos , Nir S. Gov