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We study the dynamics of an active Brownian particle with a nonlinear friction function located in a spatial cubic potential. For strong but finite damping, the escape rate of the particle over the spatial potential barrier shows a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-02 P. S. Burada , B. Lindner

The theory of stochastic processes impacts both physical and social sciences. At the molecular scale, stochastic dynamics is ubiquitous because of thermal fluctuations. The Fokker-Plank-Smoluchowski equation models the time evolution of the…

We suggest a new approach for describing quantum dissipation in a small systems for which the system-plus-reservoir approach is not relevant. We first analyze the fact that equilibrium thermodynamics may reveal the existence of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-04 J. P. Badiali

We show how the Smoluchowski dynamics of a colloidal Brownian particle suspended in a molecular solvent can be reached starting from the microscopic Liouvillian evolution of the full classical model in the high friction limit. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-08 Riccardo Fantoni

We investigate the statistical properties of an over-damped Brownian particle that is trapped by a harmonic potential and simultaneously exposed to a linear shear flow or to a plane Poiseuille flow. Its probability distribution is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-08 Jochen Bammert , Walter Zimmermann

A system reservoir model, where the associated reservoir is modulated by an external colored random force, is proposed to study the transport of an overdamped Brownian particle in a periodic potential. We then derive the analytical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-01 Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri , Suman Kumar Banik , Sudip Chattopadhyay , Pinaki Chaudhury

Throughout physics Brownian dynamics are used to describe the behaviour of molecular systems. When the Brownian particle is confined to a bounded domain, a particularly important question arises around determining how long it takes the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Jason J. Bramburger

We present a systematic expansion of Kramers equation in the high friction limit. The latter is expanded within an operator continued fraction scheme. The relevant operators include both temporal and spatial derivatives and a covariant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. A. Barreiro , J. R. Campanha , R. E. Lagos

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

A system of stochastic differential equations describing diffusive phenomena, which has arbitrary friction depending on both state and distribution is investigated. The Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation is seen to describe dynamics in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Xueru Liu , Qianqian Jiang , Wei Wang

We study the quantum tunnel effect through a potential barrier employing a semiclassical formulation of quantum mechanics based on expectation values of configuration variables and quantum dispersions as dynamical variables. The evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 L. Aragon-Muñoz , G. Chacon-Acosta , H. Hernandez-Hernandez

We study the decay of general initial states out of a metastable potential well in quantum mechanics. We provide a closed-form expression for the probability current that tunnels through the barrier in terms of the resonant states into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Oliver Janssen , Matthew Kleban , Cameron Norton

We explore dissipative quantum tunnelling, a phenomenon central to various physical and chemical processes, using a double-well potential model. This paper aims to bridge gaps in understanding the crossover from thermal activation to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Robson Christie , Jessica Eastman

A quantum linear Boltzmann equation is proposed, constructed in terms of the operator-valued dynamic structure factor of the macroscopic system the test particle is interacting with. Due to this operator structure it is a non-Abelian linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bassano Vacchini

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

We study a generalization of the Brownian bridge as a stochastic process that models the position and velocity of inertial particles between the two end-points of a time interval. The particles experience random acceleration and are assumed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou

We derive asymptotics for the quenched probability that a critical branching Brownian motion killed at a small rate in Poissonian obstacles exits a large domain. Results are formulated in terms of the solution to a semilinear partial…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-18 Jean-Francois Le Gall , Amandine Veber

The theory of quantum Brownian motion describes the properties of a large class of open quantum systems. Nonetheless, its description in terms of a Born-Markov master equation, widely used in the literature, is known to violate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-16 Aniello Lampo , Soon Hoe Lim , Jan Wehr , Pietro Massignan , Maciej Lewenstein

We calculate the probability distribution function (PDF) of an overdamped Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential energy landscape $U(x)$. The PDF is found by solving the corresponding Smoluchowski diffusion equation. We derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-21 Matan Sivan , Oded Farago

We investigate the escape rate of an overdamped, self-propelled spherical Brownian particle on a surface from a metastable potential well. Within a modeling in terms of a 1D constant speed of the particle's active dynamics we consider the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-12 Alexander Geiseler , Peter Hänggi , Gerhard Schmid