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An analysis is presented of a Brownian particle moving on the half-line, subject to a restoring force proportional to its displacement and an absorbing boundary at the origin. When the initial displacement is large, the central moments of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-08 Michael J. Kearney , Richard J. Martin

Brownian motion is the erratic motion of an object due to collisions with the fluid in which it is immersed. In this work, we detail a tabletop laboratory demonstration of underdamped Brownian motion wherein a macroscopic particle resting…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-12-19 Jack-William Barotta , Caroline M. Barotta , Eli Silver , Daniel M. Harris

Why is modern physics still today, more than 100 years after its birth, the privilege of an elite of scientists and unknown for the great majority of citizens? The answer is simple, since modern physics is in general not present in the…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-09-03 Matteo Luca Ruggiero , Sara Mattiello , Matteo Leone

Many studies on microscopic systems deal with Brownian particles embedded in media whose densities are different from that of the particles, causing them either to sink or float. The proximity to a wall modifies the friction force the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 Silvana Palacios , Victor Romero-Rochin , Karen Volke-Sepulveda

This paper gives a brief introduction to some important fractional and multifractional Gaussian processes commonly used in modelling natural phenomena and man-made systems. The processes include fractional Brownian motion (both standard and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 S. C. Lim , C. H. Eab

In systems possessing spatial or dynamical symmetry breaking, Brownian motion combined with symmetric external input signals, deterministic or random, alike, can assist directed motion of particles at the submicron scales. In such cases,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-05 Peter Hanggi , Fabio Marchesoni

The motion of a ball through an appropriate lattice of round obstacles models the behavior of a Brownian particle and can be used to describe measurement on a macro system. On another hand, such motion is chaotic and a known conjecture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Alexey A. Kryukov

The construction of the paths of all possible Brownian motions (in the sense of Knight) on a half line or a finite interval is reviewed.

Probability · Mathematics 2010-12-07 Vadim Kostrykin , Jurgen Potthoff , Robert Schrader

Brownian motion (BM) is pivotal in natural science for the stochastic motion of microscopic droplets. In this study, we investigate BM driven by thermal composition noise at sub-micro scales, where inter-molecular diffusion and surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-26 Haodong Zhang , Fei Wang , Lorenz Ratke , Britta Nestler

We derive several explicit distributions of functionals of Brownian motion indexed by the Brownian tree. In particular, we give a direct proof of a result of Bousquet-M\'elou and Janson identifying the distribution of the density at 0 of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Jean-François Le Gall , Armand Riera

The conditional density of Brownian motion is considered given the max, B(t|\max), as well as those with additional information: B(t|close, max), B(t|close, max, min) and B(t|max, min) where the close is the final value: B(t=1)=c and t in…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Kurt S Riedel

We state an exact simulation scheme for the first passage time of a Brownian motion to a symmetric linear boundary.

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Jong Mun Lee , Taeho Lee

Einstein's explanation of Brownian motion provided one of the cornerstones which underlie the modern approaches to stochastic processes. His approach is based on a random walk picture and is valid for Markovian processes lacking long-term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. M. Sokolov , J. Klafter

We present new exact expressions for a class of moments for the geometric Brownian motion, in terms of determinants, obtained using a recurrence relation and combinatorial arguments for the case of a Ito's Wiener process. We then apply the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-13 Francesco Caravelli , Toufik Mansour , Lorenzo Sindoni , Simone Severini

The goal of this paper is to define and study a notion of fractional Brownian motion on a Lie group. We define it as at the solution of a stochastic differential equation driven by a linear fractional Brownian motion. We show that this…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. Baudoin , L. Coutin

The motion of particles in random potentials occurs in several natural phenomena ranging from the mobility of organelles within a biological cell to the diffusion of stars within a galaxy. A Brownian particle moving in the random optical…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-06 Giorgio Volpe , Giovanni Volpe , Sylvain Gigan

This is a summary (in French) of my work about brownian motion and Kac-Moody algebras during the last seven years, presented towards the Habilitation degree.

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Manon Defosseux

Dynamics of quantum systems which are perturbed by linear coupling to the reservoir stochastically can be studied in terms of quantum stochastic differential equations (for example, quantum stochastic Liouville equation and quantum Langevin…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Kobryn , T. Hayashi , T. Arimitsu

A result of R. Durrett, D. Iglehart and D. Miller states that Brownian meander is Brownian motion conditioned to stay positive for a unit of time, in the sense that it is the weak limit, as $x$ goes to 0, of Brownian motion started at $x>0$…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Rodolphe Garbit