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We discuss chains of interacting Brownian motions. Their time reversal invariance is broken because of asymmetry in the interaction strength between left and right neighbor. In the limit of a very steep and short range potential one arrives…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 Tomohiro Sasamoto , Herbert Spohn

We study the transport properties for a walker on a ratchet potential. The walker consists of two particles coupled by a bistable potential that allow the interchange of the order of the particles while moving through a one-dimensional…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-01-24 José L. Mateos , Fernando R. Alatriste

A theoretical parallel between the classical Brownian motion and quantum mechanics is explored. It is shown that, in contrast to the classical Langevin force, quantum mechanics is driven by turbulent velocity fluctuations with diffusive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Roumen Tsekov

We present an analogy between the classic Gambler's Ruin problem and the thermally-activated dynamics in periodic Brownian ratchets. By considering each periodic unit of the ratchet as a site chain, we calculated the transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. Z. Cheng , M. B. A. Jalil , Hwee Kuan Lee

The study of Brownian ratchets has taught how time-periodic driving supports a time-periodic steady state that generates nonequilibrium transport. When a single particle is transported in one dimension, it is possible to rationalize the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-22 Nils E. Strand , Hadrien Vroylandt , Todd R. Gingrich

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

Brownian motion of colloidal particles in the quasi-two-dimensional (qTD) confinement displays distinct kinetic characters from that in bulk. Here we experimentally report a dynamic evolution of Brownian particles in the qTD system. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-08-15 Jun Ma , Guangyin Jing

As a generic model for transport of interacting fermions through a barrier or interstitials in a lattice, quantum Brownian motion in a periodic potential is studied. There is a duality transformation between the continuous coordinate or…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Sassetti , H. Schomerus , U. Weiss

The Brownian motion of a test particle interacting with a quantum scalar field in the presence of a perfectly reflecting boundary is studied in (1 + 1)-dimensional flat spacetime. Particularly, the expressions for dispersions in velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 V. A. De Lorenci , E. S. Moreira , M. M. Silva

We solve the model of N quantum Brownian oscillators linearly coupled to an environment of quantum oscillators at finite temperature, with no extra assumptions about the structure of the system-environment coupling. Using a compact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-29 C. H. Fleming , Albert Roura , B. L. Hu

Brownian motors, i.e. devices able to produce useful work out of thermal forces with the help of other unbiased forces, provide an ideal benchmark for the investigation of quantum dissipative systems, for two reasons. First, the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Peguiron

Quantum Brownian motion of a rod-like particle is investigated in the frame work of system plus reservoir model. The quantum mechanical and classical limit for both translational and rotational motions are discussed. Correlation functions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Z. Nasr , F. Kheirandish

The motion of a Brownian particle in the presence of Coulomb friction and an asymmetric spatial potential was evaluated in this study. The system exhibits a ratchet effect, i.e., an average directed motion even in the absence of an external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Massimiliano Semeraro , Giuseppe Gonnella , Eugenio Lippiello , Alessandro Sarracino

Dynamical aspects of quantum Brownian motion in a low temperature environment are investigated. We give a systematic calculation of quantum entanglement among two Brownian oscillators without invoking Born-Markov approximation widely used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Shiokawa

We analyze the rectified motion of a Brownian particle in a confined environment. We show the emergence of strong cooperativity between the inherent rectification of the ratchet mechanism and the entropic bias of the fluctuations caused by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paolo Malgaretti , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , J. Miguel Rubi

A Brownian motion model is proposed to study parametric correlations in the transmission eigenvalues of open ballistic cavities. We find interesting universal properties when the eigenvalues are rescaled at the hard edge of the spectrum. We…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. M. S. Macedo

Brownian computers utilize thermal fluctuations as a resource for computation and hold promise for achieving ultra-low-energy computations. However, the lack of a statistical direction in Brownian motion necessitates the incorporation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sho Nakade , Ferdinand Peper , Kazuki Kanki , Tomio Petrosky

A quantum random walk model is established on a one-dimensional periodic lattice that fluctuates between two possible states. This model is defined by Lindblad rate equations that incorporate the transition rates between the two lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Luis Octavio Castaños-Cervantes , Jesús Casado-Pascual

Using a minimal-coupling-scheme we investigate the quantum Brownian motion of a particle in an anisotropic-dissipative-medium under the influence of an arbitrary potential in both relativistic and non-relativistic regimes. A general quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ehsan Amooghorban , Fardin Kheirandish

We study two capacitively coupled double quantum dots focusing on the regime in which one double dot is strongly biased, while no voltage is applied to the other. Then the latter experiences an effective driving force which induces a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-28 Robert Hussein , Sigmund Kohler