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We study the fluctuations of work done and dissipated heat of a Brownian particle in a symmetric double well system. The system is driven by two periodic input signals that rock the potential simultaneously. Confinement in one preferred…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Navinder Singh , Sourabh Lahiri , A. M. Jayannavar

We study an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric periodic substrate, driven by a zero-mean biharmonic force and correlated thermal noise. The Brownian motion is described in terms of a Generalized Langevin Equation with an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-19 Lukasz Machura , Jerzy Luczka

We consider overdamped Brownian dynamics in a periodic potential with temporally oscillating amplitude. We analyze the transport which shows effective diffusion enhanced by the oscillations and derive approximate expressions for the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Pawel Romanczuk , Felix Mueller , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

This work addresses friction-induced modal interactions in jointed structures, and their effects on the passive mitigation of vibrations by means of friction damping. Under the condition of (nearly) commensurable natural frequencies, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-01-12 Malte Krack , Lawrence A. Bergman , Alexander F. Vakakis

Mechanical resonators that possess coupled modes with harmonic frequency relations have recently sparked interest due to their suitability for controllable energy transfer and non-Hermitian dynamics. Here, we show coupling between high…

We investigate the transport properties of particles driven by colored noise in a flashing ratchet potential, focusing on both non-interacting and single-file interacting regimes. The model incorporates memory effects via a non-Markovian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-18 Karina I. Mazzitello , Daniel G. Zarlenga , Constancio M. Arizmendi

Quantum systems can show qualitatively new forms of behavior when they are driven by fast time-periodic modulations. In the limit of large driving frequency, the long-time dynamics of such systems can often be described by a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-01 N. Goldman , J. Dalibard , M. Aidelsburger , N. R. Cooper

As a step towards a more realistic modeling of vibrations in single-molecule devices, we investigate the effects of charge-dependent vibrational frequencies and anharmonic potentials on electronic transport. For weak phonon relaxation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jens Koch , Felix von Oppen

Rectification of interacting Brownian particles is investigated in a two-dimensional asymmetric channel in the presence of an external periodic driving force. The periodic driving force can break the thermodynamic equilibrium and induces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-19 Narender Khatri , P. S. Burada

We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally the phenomenon of vibrational resonance in a periodic potential, using cold atoms in an optical lattice as a model system. A high-frequency (HF) drive, with frequency much larger than any…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Wickenbrock , P. C. Holz , N. A. Abdul Wahab , P. Phoonthong , D. Cubero , F. Renzoni

We study the entanglement dynamics of a system consisting of a large number of coupled harmonic oscillators in various configurations and for different types of nearest neighbour interactions. For a one-dimensional chain we provide compact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. B. Plenio , J. Hartley , J. Eisert

Modern superconducting and semiconducting quantum hardware use external charge and microwave flux drives to both tune and operate devices. However, each external drive is susceptible to low-frequency (e.g., $1/f$) noise that can drastically…

Excited-state vibrational dynamics in molecules can be studied by an electronically off-resonant Raman process induced by a probe pulse with variable delay with respect to an actinic pulse. We establish the connection between several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 Konstantin E. Dorfman , Benjamin P. Fingerhut , Shaul Mukamel

A ratchet model for coupled Brownian motors, inspired by the motion of individual two-headed molecular motors on cytoskeletal filaments, is proposed. Such motors are modeled as two elastically coupled Brownian particles, each of which moves…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar , Gautam I. Menon

A particle on a substrate supporting a surface acoustic wave can experience horizontal drift excited by the dry friction force. The effect is referred to as vibrational transportation, or as a surface acoustic wave motor. A traditional…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Marina E. Terzi , Vladislav V. Aleshin , Jules Ghesqui`ere , Vincent Tournat

Dry friction has been proposed as a rectifying mechanism allowing mass transport over a vibrating surface, even when vibrations are horizontal and unbiased. It has been suggested that the drift velocity will always saturate when the energy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-16 Martin Maza-Cuello , Diego Maza

We study the deterministic dynamics of a periodically driven particle in the underdamped case in a spatially symmetric periodic potential. The system is subjected to a space-dependent friction coefficient, which is similarly periodic as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Shantu Saikia , Mangal C. Mahato

We present a theory of vibrational modulation of two-dimensional coherent Fourier transformed electronic spectra. Based on an expansion of the system's energy gap correlation function in terms of Huang-Rhys factors, we explain the…

We propose a generalization of the stochastic resetting mechanism for a Brownian particle diffusing in a one-dimensional periodic potential: randomly in time, the particle gets reset at the bottom of the potential well it was in. Numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-18 Pulak K. Ghosh , Shubhadip Nayak , Jianli Liu , Yunyun Li , Fabio Marchesoni

Frequency multiplication involves generating harmonics from an input frequency, a technique particularly useful for integrating spin-wave devices operating at different frequencies. While topological magnetic textures offer distinct…

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