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Since Albert Einstein's seminal 1905-paper on Brownian motion, the temperature of fluids and gases of known viscosity can be deduced from observations of the fluctuations of small suspended probe particles. We summarize recent…

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We analytically evaluate the large deviation function in a simple model of classical particle transfer between two reservoirs. We illustrate how the asymptotic large time regime is reached starting from a special propagating initial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Upendra Harbola , Christian Van den Broeck , Katja Lindenberg

We study stochastic thermodynamics of over-damped Brownian motion in a flowing fluid. Unlike some previous works, we treat the effects of the flow field as a non-conservational driving force acting on the Brownian particle. This allows us…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-23 Jun Wu , Mingnan Ding , Xiangjun Xing

Active matter and driven systems exhibit statistical fluctuations in density and particle positions, providing an indirect indicator of dissipation across multiple length and time scales. Here, we quantitatively relate these measurable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-19 Aishani Ghosal , Jason R. Green

In the context of the dynamical evolution in a non-stationary thermal bath, we construct a family of fluctuation relations for the entropy production that are not verified by the work performed on the system. We exhibit fluctuation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Raphael Chetrite

Thermodynamic parameters such as temperature and pressure can be defined from the statistical behavior of a system. Therefore, thermal fluctuation is an inseparable characteristic of these parameters which eventually finds its way into…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Alek Bedroya , Mahmud Bahmanabadi

Monte Carlo simulations of Ising models coupled to heat baths at two different temperatures are used to study a fluctuation relation for the heat exchanged between the two thermostats in a time $\tau$. Different kinetics (single--spin--flip…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Piscitelli , F. Corberi , G. Gonnella

Fluctuation-dissipation relation ensures thermodynamic equilibrium of a particle immersed in a heat bath. We will show that, under certain circumstances, the fluctuation-dissipation relation fails to ensure equilibrium between the immersed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-31 A Bhattacharyay

We present a numerical method that consistently implements thermal fluctuations and hydrodynamic interactions to the motion of Brownian particles dispersed in incompressible host fluids. In this method, the thermal fluctuations are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Iwashita , Y. Nakayama , R. Yamamoto

Information plays a pivotal role in the thermodynamics of nonequilibrium processes with feedback. However, much remains to be learned about the nature of information fluctuations in small scale devices and their relation with fluctuations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Martin Luc Rosinberg , Jordan M. Horowitz

We construct a microscopic theory of applying a heat flow from thermostatted boundary walls in the film geometry. We treat a classical one-component fluid, but our method is applicable to any fluids and solids. We express linear response of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 Akira Onuki

We discuss an extension of the fluctuation theorem to stochastic models that, in the limit of zero external drive, are not able to equilibrate with their environment, extending results presented by Sellitto (cond-mat/9809186). We show that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Zamponi , F. Bonetto , L. F. Cugliandolo , J. Kurchan

In active Brownian motion, an internal propulsion mechanism interacts with translational and rotational thermal noise and other internal fluctuations to produce directed motion. We derive the distribution of its extreme fluctuations and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Patrick Pietzonka , Kevin Kleinbeck , Udo Seifert

We study the fluctuation-dissipation theorem for a Brownian particle driven into a nonequilibrium steady state experimentally. We validate two different theoretical variants of a generalized fluctuation-dissipation theorem. Furthermore, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Jakob Mehl , Valentin Blickle , Udo Seifert , Clemens Bechinger

We analyze the dynamics of a Brownian gas in contact with a heat bath in which large temperature fluctuations occur. There are two distinct time scales present, one describes the decay of the fluctuations in the temperature and the other…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Santamaria-Holek , R. F. Rodriguez

A Brownian Motor is a nanoscale or molecular device that combines the effects of thermal noise, spatial or temporal asymmetry, and directionless input energy to drive directed motion. Because of the input energy, Brownian motors function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Dean Astumian

The fluctuation-dissipation relation (FDR) links thermal fluctuations and dissipation at thermal equilibrium through temperature. Extending it beyond equilibrium conditions in pursuit of broadening thermodynamics is often feasible, albeit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-04 Dima Boriskovsky , Benjamin Lindner , Yael Roichman

Large fluctuations have received considerable attention as they encode information on the fine-scale dynamics. Large deviation relations known as fluctuation theorems also capture crucial nonequilibrium thermodynamical properties. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-09 David Andrieux

Almost a century ago, Johnson and Nyquist presented evidence of fluctuating electrical current and the governing fluctuation dissipation theorem (FDT). Whether, likewise, temperature T can fluctuate is a controversial topic and has led to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 Bayan Karimi , Fredrik Brange , Peter Samuelsson , Jukka P. Pekola

The question how to introduce thermal fluctuations in the equation of motion of a magnetic system is addressed. Using the approach of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem we calculate the properties of the noise for both, the fluctuating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Chubykalo , R. Smirnov-Rueda , M. A. Wongsam , R. W. Chantrell , U. Nowak , J. M. Gonzalez