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We study the statistical properties of the variation of the kinetic energy of a spherical Brownian particle that freely moves in an incompressible fluid at constant temperature. Based on the underdamped version of the generalized Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-10 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano

In this work, we study the dynamics of a single active Brownian particle, as well as the collective behavior of interacting active Brownian particles, in a fluctuating heterogeneous environment. We employ a variant of the diffusing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 S. M. J. Khadem , N. H. Siboni , S. H. L. Klapp

We consider a tracer particle on a lattice in the presence of immobile obstacles. Starting from equilibrium, a force pulling on the particle is switched on, driving the system to a new stationary state. We solve for the complete transient…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-04 Sebastian Leitmann , Thomas Franosch

The diffusive dynamics of a particle in a medium with space-dependent friction coefficient is studied within the framework of the inertial Langevin equation. In this description, the ambiguous interpretation of the stochastic integral,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oded Farago , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

Consider a particle diffusing in a confined volume which is divided into two equal regions. In one region the diffusion coefficient is twice the value of the diffusion coefficient in the other region. Will the particle spend equal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-04 P. F. Tupper , Xin Yang

Discontinuous transitions into absorbing states require an effective mechanism that prevents the stabilization of low density states. They can be found in different systems, such as lattice models or stochastic differential equations (e.g.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-12 Salete Pianegonda , Carlos E. Fiore

We consider single particle and polymer translocation where the frictional properties experienced from the environment are changing in time. This work is motivated by the interesting frequency responsive behaviour observed when a polymer is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-12-06 Jack A. Cohen , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Ramin Golestanian

Diffusive transport properties of a quantum Brownian particle moving in a tilted spatially periodic potential and strongly interacting with a thermostat are explored. Apart from the average stationary velocity, we foremost investigate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Machura , M. Kostur , P. Talkner , J. Luczka , P. Hänggi

Diffusion in a multidimensional energy surface with minima and barriers is a problem of importance in statistical mechanics and also has wide applications, such as protein folding. To understand it in such a system, we carry out theory and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-29 Subhajit Acharya , Biman Bagchi

We consider Langevin equation with dichotomously fluctuating diffusivity, where the diffusion coefficient changes dichotomously in time, in order to study fluctuations of time-averaged observables in temporary heterogeneous diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-15 Takuma Akimoto , Eiji Yamamoto

Statistical invariance of Wiener increments under SO(n) rotations provides a notion of gauge transformation of state-dependent Brownian motion. We show that the stochastic dynamics of non gauge-invariant systems is not unambiguously…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-06 Matteo Polettini

We present a first-principles formalism for studying dynamical heterogeneities in glass forming liquids. Based on the Non-Equilibrium Self-Consistent Generalized Langevin Equation theory, we were able to describe the time-dependent local…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-06 J. Lira-Escobedo , J. R. Velez-Cordero , Pedro E. Ramírez-González

We expand on a recent study of a lattice model of interacting particles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 110601 (2013)]. The adsorption isotherm and equilibrium fluctuations in particle number are discussed as a function of the interaction. Their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Becker , K. Nelissen , B. Cleuren , B. Partoens , C. Van den Broeck

A sharp change in apparent mobility at a characteristic temperature that depends on the observation time has been reported in experiments and simulations of hydrated proteins. Such behavior is often discussed in the context of the protein…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-01 Masahiro Shirataki , Takuma Akimoto

Heat fluctuations over a time \tau in a non-equilibrium stationary state and in a transient state are studied for a simple system with deterministic and stochastic components: a Brownian particle dragged through a fluid by a harmonic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. van Zon , E. G. D. Cohen

The spreading of a cloud of independent Brownian particles typically proceeds more effectively at higher temperatures, as it derives from the commonly known Sutherland-Einstein relation for systems in thermal equilibrium. Here, we report on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-20 Jakub Spiechowicz , Peter Talkner , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

The state-dependent diffusion, which concerns the Brownian motion of a particle in inhomogeneous media has been described phenomenologically in a number of ways. Based on a system-reservoir nonlinear coupling model we present a microscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Debashis Barik , Deb Shankar Ray

Starting from the kinetic equations for the fluctuations and correlations of a dilute gas of inelastic hard spheres or disks, a Boltzmann-Langevin equation for the one-particle distribution function of the homogeneous cooling state is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Javier Brey , P. Maynar , M. I. Garcia de Soria

Overdamped Brownian motion of a self-propelled particle is studied by solving the Langevin equation analytically. On top of translational and rotational diffusion, in the context of the presented model, the "active" particle is driven along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-15 Borge ten Hagen , Sven van Teeffelen , Hartmut Löwen

The celebrated Sutherland-Einstein relation for systems at thermal equilibrium states that spread of trajectories of Brownian particles is an increasing function of temperature. Here, we scrutinize diffusion of underdamped Brownian motion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 J. Spiechowicz , J. Luczka