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We examined the Brownian motion of point defects in a two-dimensional hexagonal colloidal crystal, going beyond the conventional treatment that assumes constant diffusion coefficients. By extracting the spatially varying drift vector and…

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We quantify the effect of Gaussian white noise on fast--slow dynamical systems with one fast and two slow variables, which display mixed-mode oscillations owing to the presence of a folded-node singularity. The stochastic system can be…

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The coincidence of a pitchfork and Hopf bifurcation at a Takens-Bogdanov (TB) bifurcation occurs in many physical systems such as double-diffusive convection, binary convection and magnetoconvection. Analysis of the associated normal form,…

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We perform an analytic study on the stochastic thermodynamics of a small classical particle trapped in a time dependent single-well potential in the highly underdamped limit. It is shown that the nonequilibrium probability density function…

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