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The study of diffusion with preferential returns to places visited in the past has attracted an increased attention in recent years. In these highly non-Markov processes, a standard diffusive particle intermittently resets at a given rate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-08 Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar

We explore the properties of run-and-tumble particles moving in a piecewise-linear "ratchet" potential by deriving analytic results for the system's steady-state probability density, current, entropy production rate, extractable power, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-01 Connor Roberts , Zigan Zhen

Due to wide applications in diverse fields, random walks subject to stochastic resetting have attracted considerable attention in the last decade. In this paper, we study discrete-time random walks on complex network with multiple resetting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-01 Shuang Wang , Hanshuang Chen , Feng Huang

We study the large deviations of the time-integrated current for a self-propelled particle moving within a confined environment. The dynamics is modeled as a semi-Markovian process, where the transitions between a \textit{normal running…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Shabnam Sohrabi , Farhad H. Jafarpour

We consider the motion of a overdamped Brownian particle in periodic asymmetric potential with space dependent friction coefficient. In the presence of external time periodic forcing, the system shows multiple current reversals on varying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar , Mangal C. Mahato

The realization of a directed current for a quantum particle in a flashing asymmetric potential is studied. It is found that a positive current, i.e. in the direction expected for a conventional diffusive ratchet, can be attained at short…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Emil Lundh , Mats Wallin

We outline a generic ratchet mechanism for creating directed spin-polarized currents in ac-driven double well or double dot structures by employing resonant spin transfer through the system engineered by local external magnetic fields. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-19 Matthias Scheid , Andreas Lassl , Klaus Richter

We consider the overdamped motion of Brownian particles, interacting via particle exclusion, in an external potential that varies with time and space. We show that periodic potentials that maintain specific position-dependent phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-09 Debasish Chaudhuri , Abhishek Dhar

Particle currents flowing against an external driving are a fascinating phenomenon in both single-particle and interacting many-particle systems. Underlying physical mechanisms of such current reversals are not fully understood yet.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-10 Moritz Wolf , Sören Schweers , Philipp Maass

We study large deviations of a ratio observable in discrete-time reset processes. The ratio takes the form of a current divided by the number of reset steps and as such it is not extensive in time. A large deviation rate function can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-21 Francesco Coghi , Rosemary J. Harris

Markov processes with stochastic resetting towards the origin generically converge towards non-equilibrium steady-states. Long dynamical trajectories can be thus analyzed via the large deviations at Level 2.5 for the joint probability of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-07 Cecile Monthus

Using computer simulations, we study a two-dimensional system of sterically interacting self-mobile run-and-tumble disk-shaped particles with an underlying periodic quasi-one-dimensional asymmetric substrate, and show that a rich variety of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-06 D. McDermott , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

Kinetics of biological motors such as kinesin or dynein is notably influenced by viscoelastic intracellular environment. The characteristic relaxation time of the cytosol is not separable from the colloidal timescale and therefore their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Mateusz Wiśniewski , Jakub Spiechowicz

We study memory based random walk models to understand diffusive motion in crowded heterogeneous environment. The models considered are non-Markovian as the current move of the random walk models is determined by randomly selecting a move…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Sabeeha Hasnain , Upendra Harbola , Pradipta Bandyopadhyay

Electronic ratchets transduce local spatial asymmetries into directed currents in the absence of a global drain bias, by rectifying temporal signals that reside far from thermal equilibrium. We show that the absence of a drain bias can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Mehdi Kabir , Dincer Unluer , Lijun Li , Avik W. Ghosh , Mircea R. Stan

We investigate the model of "reversible ratchet" with interacting particles, introduced by us earlier [Europhys. Lett. 84, 50009 (2008)]. We further clarify the effect of efficiency enhancement due to interaction and show that it is of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Frantisek Slanina

Motivated by various recent experimental findings, we propose a dynamical model of intermittently self-propelled particles: active particles that recurrently switch between two modes of motion, namely an active run-state and a turn state,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-30 Agniva Datta , Carsten Beta , Robert Großmann

Random walks find applications in many areas of science and are the heart of essential network analytic tools. When defined on temporal networks, even basic random walk models may exhibit a rich spectrum of behaviours, due to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-11 Julien Petit , Renaud Lambiotte , Timoteo Carletti

A space fractional diffusion-like equation is introduced, which embodies the nonlocality in time, represented by the memory kernel and the non-locality in space. A specific example of the nonlocal term is considered in combination with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-06 Pece Trajanovski , Irina Petreska , Katarzyna Gorska , Ljupco Kocarev , Trifce Sandev

Transport of a Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential is investigated in the presence of symmetric unbiased external force. The viscous medium is alternately in contact with the two heat reservoirs. We present the analytical…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-03-22 Bao-quan Ai , Liqiu Wang , Lianggang Liu