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When a Brownian particle in contact with a heat bath at a constant temperature is controlled by a time-dependent harmonic potential, its distribution function can be rigorously derived from the Kramers equation with the consideration of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 Z. C. Tu

We will consider exact controllability of the distributed system governed by the wave equation with memory. It will be proved that this mechanical system can be driven to rest in finite time, the absolute value of the distributed control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Igor Romanov , Alexey Shamaev

We theoretically investigate the flow of the atomic excitations in a driven chiral-coupled atomic chain with nonreciprocal decay channels. This one-dimensional system allows infinite-range dipole-dipole interaction, and enables directional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 H. H. Jen

In a model of $N$ volume-excluding spheres in a $d$-dimensional tube, we consider how differences between particles in their drift velocities, diffusivities, and sizes influence the steady state distribution and axial particle current. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-15 Emil Mallmin , Richard A. Blythe , Martin Evans

This is the second in a series of three papers in which we study a two-dimensional lattice gas consisting of two types of particles subject to Kawasaki dynamics at low temperature in a large finite box with an open boundary. Each pair of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Frank den Hollander , Francesca R. Nardi , Alessio Troiani

Collective motion in actively propelled particle systems is triggered on the very local scale by nucleation of coherently moving units consisting of just a handful of particles. These units grow and merge over time, ending up in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-26 Timo Hanke , Christoph A. Weber , Erwin Frey

Using a non-perturbative classical model, we numerically investigate the dynamics of mobile particles interacting with an infinite chain of harmonic oscillators, an abstraction of ionic conduction through solid-state materials. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 A. Rodin , B. A. Olsen , M. Choi , A. Tan

We discovered an out-of-equilibrium transition in the ideal gas between two walls, divided by an inner, adiabatic, movable wall. The system is driven out-of-equilibrium by supplying energy directly into the volume of the gas. At critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-06 Yirui Zhang , Marek Litniewski , Karol Makuch , Pawel J. Zuk , Anna Maciolek , Robert Holyst

Based on Brownian dynamics simulations, we investigate the thermodynamic signatures of non-equilibrium steady states in a confined colloidal suspensions under shear flow. Specifically, we consider a thin film consisting of charged particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-02 Sascha Gerloff , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Recently a novel concise representation of the probability distribution of heat conducting nonequilibrium steady states was derived. The representation is valid to the second order in the ``degree of nonequilibrium'', and has a very…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Teruhisa S. Komatsu , Naoko Nakagawa , Shin-ichi Sasa , Hal Tasaki

In this article we consider the possibility of controlling the dynamics of nonlinear discrete systems. A new method of control is by mixing states of the system (or the functions of these states) calculated on previous steps. This approach…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-23 D. Dmitrishin , I. M. Skrinnik , A. Stokolos

We investigate out-of-equilibrium stationary processes emerging in a Discrete Nonlinear Schroedinger chain in contact with a heat reservoir (a bath) at temperature $T_L$ and a pure dissipator (a sink) acting on opposite edges. We observe…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-28 Stefano Iubini , Stefano Lepri , Roberto Livi , Gian-Luca Oppo , Antonio Politi

We derive and analyze a three dimensional model of a figure skater. We model the skater as a three-dimensional body moving in space subject to a non-holonomic constraint enforcing movement along the skate's direction and holonomic…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-01-08 Vaughn Gzenda , Vakhtang Putkaradze

We consider a mixture of passive (i.e., Brownian) and active (e.g., bacterial or colloidal swimmers) particles, and analyze the stability conditions of either uniformly mixed or phase segregated steady states consisting of phases enriched…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-21 Alexander Y. Grosberg , Jean-François Joanny

Key features of biological activity can often be captured by transitions between a finite number of semi-stable states that correspond to behaviors or decisions. We present here a broad class of dynamical systems that are ideal for modeling…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Megan Morrison , Lai-Sang Young

We study heat transport in a one-dimensional chain of a finite number $N$ of identical cells, coupled at its boundaries to stochastic particle reservoirs. At the center of each cell, tracer particles collide with fixed scatterers,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-10 Pierre Collet , Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Carlos Mejia-Monasterio

We study properties of steady states (states with time-independent density operators) of systems of coupled harmonic oscillators. Formulas are derived showing how adiabatic change of the Hamiltonian transforms one steady state into another.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Max Tegmark , Leehwa Yeh

We study direct and inverse scattering problem for systems of interacting particles, having web-like structure. Such systems consist of a finite number of semi-infinite chains attached to the central part formed by a finite number of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Isaac Alvarez-Romero , Yurii Lyubarskii

We propose a simple diatomic system trapped inside an optical cavity to control the energy flow between two thermal baths. Through the action of the baths the system is driven to a non- equilibrium steady state. Using the Large Deviation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-09 Daniel Manzano , Elica Kyoseva

This study aims to address the nature of state change, measurement, and probabilistic outcomes in non-relativistic quantum mechanics. We consider a pair of particles that interact in a one-dimensional setting via a delta-function potential.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Olivia Pomerenk , Charles S. Peskin