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A Brownian harmonic oscillator, which dissipates energy either by friction or via emission of electromagnetic radiation, is considered. This Brownian emitter is driven by the surrounding thermo-quantum fluctuations, which are theoretically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-17 R. Tsekov

In this note we discuss a paradigmatic example of interacting particles subject to non conservative external forces and to the action of thermostats consisting of external (finite) reservoirs of particles. We then consider a model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Bonetto , G. Gallavotti , A. Giuliani , F. Zamponi

In this paper, a generalized Brownian motion model has been applied to describe the relative particle dispersion problem in more realistic turbulent flows. The fluctuating pressure forces acting on a fluid particle are taken to be a colored…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-07 Bhimsen Shivamoggi

Experimental and theoretical studies are made of Brownian particles trapped in a periodic potential, which is very slightly tilted due to gravity. In the presence of fluctuations, these will trigger a measurable average drift along the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-10-14 M. Zelan , H. Hagman , K. Karlsson , C. M. Dion , A. Kastberg

Strong interaction with other particles or feedback from the medium on a Brownian particle entail memory effects in the effective dynamics. We discuss the extension of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem to nonequilibrium Langevin systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-23 C. Maes , S. Safaverdi , P. Visco , F. van Wijland

The traction on the surface of a spherical active colloid in a thermally fluctuating Stokesian fluid contains passive, active, and Brownian contributions. Here we derive these three parts systematically, by "projecting out" the fluid using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-11 Rajesh Singh , R. Adhikari

In the paper by Franosch et al., Nature 478, 85 (2011), the positional fluctuations of Brownian microspheres in fluids were studied by confining the particles in an optical trap. Experimental access to short timescales has revealed a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-16 Jana Tothova , Lukas Glod , Vladimir Lisy

In this Letter, we present a new experimental approach to investigate the effective temperature concept as a generalization of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT) for nonequilibrium systems. Simultaneous measurements of diffusion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-06 Jean Colombani , Laure Petit , Christophe Ybert , Catherine Barentin

Recent studies unveiled the Fickian yet non-Gaussian (FNG) dynamics of many soft matter systems and suggested this phenomenon as a general characteristic of the diffusion in complex fluids. In particular, it was shown that the distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-24 Alejandro Cuetos , Neftalí Morillo , Alessandro Patti

The dynamics of a binary system with non conserved order parameter under a plain shear flow with rate $\gamma $ is solved analytically in the large-N limit. A phase transition is observed at a critical temperature $T_c(\gamma)$. After a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Federico Corberi , Giuseppe Gonnella , Eugenio Lippiello , Marco Zannetti

Brownian motion is a foundational physical process characterized by a mean squared displacement that scales linearly in time in thermal equilibrium, known as diffusion. At short times, the mean squared displacement becomes ballistic,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-10 Jason Boynewicz , Michael C. Thumann , Mark G. Raizen

The conventional Brownian motion in harmonic systems has provided a deep understanding of a great diversity of dissipative phenomena. We address a rather fundamental microscopic description for the (linear) dissipative dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-07 Antonio A. Valido

We carry out a comprehensive linear stability analysis of active Brownian particle systems around a constant homogeneous state. These scalar models, being important prototypes for the continuous description of active matter, are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Michele Coti Zelati , Lucas Ertzbischoff , David Gerard-Varet

Intrinsic thermal fluctuations within a real solid challenge the rigid body assumption that is central to Euler's equations for the motion of a free body. Recently, we have introduced a dissipative and stochastic version of Euler's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-05 J. A. de la Torre , J. Sánchez-Rodríguez , Pep Español

In this article we present an experimental study of the statistical properties for the injected power fluctuations of a dissipative system as a function of external environmental conditions. A Brownian motion analog is implemented using a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-16 José A. Ogalde , Claudio B. Falcón , Marcos A. Díaz

An interesting feature of the Davies-Unruh effect is that an uniformly accelerated observer sees an isotropic thermal spectrum of particles even though there is a preferred direction in this context, determined by the direction of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-29 Sanved Kolekar , T. Padmanabhan

We study fluctuations of the empirical processes of a non-equilibrium interacting particle system consisting of two species over a domain that is recently introduced in [8] and establish its functional central limit theorem. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Zhen-Qing Chen , Wai-Tong Louis Fan

A fully quantum treatment of Einstein's Brownian motion is given, showing in particular the role played by the two original requirements of translational invariance and connection between dynamics of the Brownian particle and atomic nature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Petruccione , Bassano Vacchini

In this paper, the first microscopic approach to the Brownian motion is developed in the case where the mass density of the suspending bath is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Brownian (B) particle. Starting from an extended…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Lydéric Bocquet , Jarosław Piasecki

We study the motion of a Brownian particle subjected to Lorentz force due to an external magnetic field. Each spatial degree of freedom of the particle is coupled to a different thermostat. We show that the magnetic field results in…