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According to a traditional point of view Boltzmann entropy is intimately related to linear Fokker-Planck equations (Smoluchowski, Klein-Kramers, and Rayleigh equations) that describe a well-known nonequilibrium phenomenon: (normal) Brownian…

General Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 A. O. Bolivar

In the frames of classical mechanics the generalized Langevin equation is derived for an arbitrary mechanical subsystem coupled to the harmonic bath of a solid. A time-acting temperature operator is introduced for the quantum Klein-Kramers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-17 Roumen Tsekov

Brownian motion is modelled by a harmonic oscillator (Brownian particle) interacting with a continuous set of uncoupled harmonic oscillators. The interaction is linear in the coordinates and the momenta. The model has an analytical solution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 Diego G. Arbo , Mario A. Castagnino , Fabian H. Gaioli , Sergio Iguri

We consider a two-type reducible branching Brownian motion, defined as a particle system on the real line in which particles of two types move according to independent Brownian motion and create offspring at constant rate. Particles of type…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Mohamed Ali Belloum , Bastien Mallein

We present a first-principles thermodynamic approach to provide an alternative to the Langevin equation by identifying the deterministic (no stochastic component) microforce F_{k,BP} acting on a nonequilibrium Brownian particle (BP) in its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 P. D. Gujrati

Brownian dynamics of a self-propelled particle in linear shear flow is studied analytically by solving the Langevin equation and in simulation. The particle has a constant propagation speed along a fluctuating orientation and is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Borge ten Hagen , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

In this thesis, branching Brownian motion (BBM) is a random particle system where the particles diffuse on the real line according to Brownian motions and branch at constant rate into a random number of particles with expectation greater…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-02 Pascal Maillard

The Langevin equation with multiplicative noise and state-dependent transport coefficient has to be always complemented with the proper interpretation rule of the noise, such as the Ito and Stratonovich conventions. Although the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-05 Takeshi Kuroiwa , Kunimasa Miyazaki

Einstein's Brownian motion of a quantum particle in a classical environment is studied via virial and equipartition theorems. The effect of continuous measurement in a strongly dissipative environment is accounted for and a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 R. Tsekov

We focus on the dynamics of a Brownian particle whose mass fluctuates. First we show that the behaviour is similar to that of a Brownian particle moving in a fluctuating medium, as studied by Beck [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 180601]. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-13 R. Lambiotte , M. Ausloos

We establish that the exact quantum dynamics of a Brownian particle in the Caldeira-Leggett model can be mapped, at any temperature, onto a classical, non-Markovian stochastic process in phase space. Starting from a correlated thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Dmitriy Kondaurov , Evgeny Polyakov

A mixture of light-gas particles and Brownian heavy particles is analyzed within the framework of a post-Newtonian Boltzmann equation to determine the Fokker-Planck equation for the Brownian motion. For each species, the equilibrium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-16 Gilberto M. Kremer

We consider a charged Brownian gas under the influence of external and non uniform electric, magnetic and mechanical fields, immersed in a non uniform bath temperature. With the collision time as an expansion parameter, we study the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-01 R. E. Lagos , Tania P. Simões

Brownian motion is the perpetual irregular motion exhibited by small particles immersed in a fluid. Such random motion of the particles is produced by statistical fluctuations in the collisions they suffer with the molecules of the…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Kasturi Basu , Kopinjol Baishya

The dynamical evolution of a Brownian particle in an inhomogeneous medium with spatially varying friction and temperature field is important to understand conceptually. It requires to address the basic problem of relative stability of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Jayannavar , Mangal C. Mahato

The Branching Brownian Motions (BBM) are particles performing independent Brownian motions in $\mathbb R$ and each particle at rate 1 creates a new particle at her current position; the newborn particle increments and branchings are…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Anna De Masi , Pablo A. Ferrari , Errico Presutti , Nahuel Soprano-Loto

The added mass effect is the contribution to a Brownian particle's effective mass arising from the hydrodynamic flow its motion induces. For a spherical particle in an incompressible fluid, the added mass is half the fluid's displaced mass,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-06 Long Him Cheung , Christopher Jarzynski

Einstein's kinetic theory of the Brownian motion, based upon light water molecules continuously bombarding a heavy pollen, provided an explanation of diffusion from the Newtonian mechanics. Since the discovery of quantum mechanics it has…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Laszlo Erdos

In two prior papers of this series, it was proposed that a wavefunction model of a heavy particle and a collection of light particles might generate ``Brownian-Motion-Like" trajectories as well as diffusive motion (displacement proportional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Leonardo De Carlo , W. David Wick

This work proposes a method for the two-dimensional simulation of Brownian particles in a fluid with restrictions. The method is based on simple numerical rules between two matrices. One of the matrix represent the identification of all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-24 Eric Plaza