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The Brownian motion of a quantum particle in a harmonic confining potential and coupled to a harmonic quantum thermal bath is exactly solvable. It is shown that at low enough temperatures the stationary state is non-Gibbsian due to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen , A. E. Allahverdyan

It is always some constraint that yields any nontrivial structure from statistical averages. As epitomized by the Boltzmann distribution, the energy conservation is often the principal constraint acting on mechanical systems. Here, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Naoki Sato , Zensho Yoshida

Applying the theory of self-adjoint extensions of Hermitian operators to Koopman von Neumann classical mechanics, the most general set of probability distributions is found for which entropy is conserved by Hamiltonian evolution. A new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-24 Gerard McCaul , Alexander Pechen , Denys I. Bondar

We study the driven Brownian motion of hard rods in a one-dimensional cosine potential with an amplitude large compared to the thermal energy. In a closed system, we find surprising features of the steady-state current in dependence of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-24 Dominik Lips , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass

Cosmological adiabatic particle creation results in the generation of irreversible entropy. The evolution of this entropy is examined in a flat Friedmann--Robertson--Walker universe at late times, using a dissipative model with a power-law…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 Nobuyoshi Komatsu

We analyze underdamped Brownian motion in non-isothermal media with quadratic, linear, and piecewise-constant temperature profiles. Exact identities for entropy production and entropy extraction are derived, addressing whether a vanishing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-10 Mesfin Taye

Isolated quantum systems typically follow the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, but there are exceptions, such as many-body localized (MBL) systems and quantum many-body scars. Here, we present the study of a weak violation of MBL due…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-02 Michael Iversen , N. S. Srivatsa , Anne E. B. Nielsen

We present a particle separation mechanism which induces motion of particles of different sizes in opposite directions. The mechanism is based on the combined action of a driving force and an entropic rectification of the Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-10 D. Reguera , A. Luque , P. S. Burada , G. Schmid , J. M. Rubí , P. Hänggi

We analyze the stochastic thermodynamics of systems with continuous space of states. The evolution equation, the rate of entropy production, and other results are obtained by a continuous time limit of a discrete time formulation. We point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-27 Mário J. de Oliveira

A numerical experiment of ideal stochastic motion of a particle subject to conservative forces and Gaussian noise reveals that the path probability depends exponentially on action. This distribution implies a fundamental principle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-16 Qiuping A. Wang , Aziz El Kaabouchi

Rotating equilibrated systems are widespread, but relatively little attention has been devoted to studying them from the first principles of statistical mechanics. We fill this gap by studying a Brownian particle coupled with a thermal bath…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-19 Ashot Matevosyan , Armen E. Allahverdyan

Consider a state of a system with several subsystems. The entropies of the reduced state on different subsystems obey certain inequalities, provided there is an equivalence relation, and a function measuring volumes or weights of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bernhard Baumgartner

We investigate entanglement between electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom for a model nonadiabatic system. We find that entanglement (measured by the von Neumann entropy of the subsystem for the eigenstates) is large in a statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hiroshi Fujisaki

In this paper, it is presented the well known aspect of non linearity of internal human body structures. Similarity on the basis of the Fractional Brownian Motion from the static ones, as the geometrical fractals like the Intestine and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2008-06-25 Attilio Sacripanti

In this paper we consider the dynamics of harmonically-confined atomic gases. We present various general results which are independent of particle statistics, interatomic interactions and dimensionality. Of particular interest is the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-03-13 Z. Wu , E. Zaremba

We study the movement of the living organism in a band form towards the presence of chemical substrate based on a system of partial differential evolution equations. We incorporate the Einstein's method of Brownian motion to deduce the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Rahnuma Islam , Akif Ibragimov

In closed quantum many-body systems, initially localized information spreads throughout the system and becomes highly complex. This phenomenon, known as information scrambling, is closely related to entropy growth and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Yuke Zhang , Zeyu Liu , Shuo Zhang , Langxuan Chen , Pengfei Zhang

Within the Rayleigh-Helmholtz model of active Brownian particles activity is due to a non-linear velocity dependent force. In the presence of an external trapping potential or a constant force, the steady state of the system breaks detailed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Debasish Chaudhuri

Small quantum systems non-weakly coupled to a bath become in the quantum regime surrounded by a cloud of photons or phonons, which modifies their thermodynamic behavior. Exactly solvable examples are the Brownian motion of a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

A system of identical bosons with short-range (contact) interactions is studied. Their motion is confined to one dimension by a tight lateral trapping potential and, additionally, subject to a weak harmonic confinement in the longitudinal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 Igor E. Mazets