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We complete the kinetic theory of inhomogeneous systems with long-range interactions initiated in previous works. We use a simpler and more physical formalism. We consider a system of particles submitted to a small external stochastic…

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We investigate the impact of intermittent energy injections on a Brownian particle, modeled as stochastic renewals of its kinetic energy to a fixed value. Between renewals, the particle follows standard underdamped Langevin dynamics. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-11 Ion Santra , Kristian Stølevik Olsen

We consider a semi-linear advection equation driven by a highly-oscillatory space-time Gaussian random field, with the randomness affecting both the drift and the nonlinearity. In the linear setting, classical results show that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Yu Gu , Tomasz Komorowski , Lenya Ryzhik

In this work, surface diffusion is studied with a different perspective by showing how the corresponding open dynamics is transformed when passing, in a continuous and smooth way, from a pure quantum regime to a full classical regime; the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-02 E. E. Torres-Miyares , S. Miret-Artés

In this paper we investigate the Quantum Brownian motion of a point particle induced by quantum vacuum fluctuations of a massless scalar field in (3 + 1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime with distinct conditions (Dirichlet, Neumann, mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Éwerton J. B. Ferreira , Eliza M. B. Guedes , Herondy F. Santana Mota

The Brownian motion of a test particle interacting with a quantum scalar field in the presence of a perfectly reflecting boundary is studied in (1 + 1)-dimensional flat spacetime. Particularly, the expressions for dispersions in velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 V. A. De Lorenci , E. S. Moreira , M. M. Silva

Recent results on the stationary state Fluctuation Theorems for work and heat fluctuations of Langevin systems are presented. The relevance of finite time corrections in understanding experimental and simulation results is explained in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-31 E. G. D. Cohen , Ramses van Zon

Brownian motion is a universal characteristic of colloidal particles embedded in a host medium, and it is the fingerprint of molecular transport or diffusion, a generic feature of relevance not only in Physics but also in several branches…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-01 Pavel Castro-Villarreal , César O. Solano-Cabrera , Ramón Castañeda-Priego

We study the motion of a solid particle immersed in a Newtonian fluid and confined between two parallel elastic membranes possessing shear and bending rigidity. The hydrodynamic mobility depends on the frequency of the particle motion due…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-03 Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Achim Guckenberger , Stephan Gekle

We study the motion of an inertial particle in a fractional Gaussian random field. The motion of the particle is described by Newton's second law, where the force is proportional to the difference between a background fluid velocity and the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Georg Schöchtel

This article studies typical dynamics and fluctuations for a slow-fast dynamical system perturbed by a small fractional Brownian noise. Based on an ergodic theorem with explicit rates of convergence, which may be of independent interest, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Solesne Bourguin , Siragan Gailus , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

The migration of living cells obeys usually the Einstein law of Brownian motion. While the latter is due to the thermal motion of surrounding matter, the cells locomotion is generally associated to their vitality. In the present paper the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-11 R. Tsekov , M. C. Lensen

We discuss the well known Einstein and the Kubo Fluctuation Dissipation Relations (FDRs) in the wider framework of a generalized FDR for systems with a stationary probability distribution. A multi-variate linear Langevin model, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-17 D. Villamaina , A. Baldassarri , A. Puglisi , A. Vulpiani

We study the Caldeira-Leggett model where a quantum Brownian particle interacts with an environment or a bath consisting of a collection of harmonic oscillators in the path integral formalism. Compared to the contours that the paths take in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-11 Joonhyun Yeo

Experimental verification of the theoretical predictions made by Albert Einstein in his paper, published in 1905, on the molecular mechanisms of Brownian motion established the existence of atoms. In the last 100 years discoveries of many…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Debashish Chowdhury

Within a microscopic theory, we study the quantum Brownian motion of a skyrmion in a magnetic insulator coupled to a bath of magnon-like quantum excitations. The intrinsic skyrmion-bath coupling gives rise to damping terms for the skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Christina Psaroudaki , Pavel Aseev , Daniel Loss

Quantum Brownian motion of a harmonic oscillator in the Markovian approximation is described by the respective Caldeira-Leggett master equation. This master equation can be brought into Lindblad form by adding a position diffusion term to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 J. Z. Bernád , G. Homa , M. A. Csirik

The fluctuation-dissipation theorem describes the intimate connection between the Brownian diffusion of thermal particles and their drag coefficients. In the simple case of spherical particles, it takes the form of the Stokes-Einstein…

For the Langevin model of the dynamics of a Brownian particle with perturbations orthogonal to its current velocity, in a regime when the particle velocity modulus becomes constant, an equation for the characteristic function $\psi…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-01 V. A. Doobko , S. V. Zubarev , E. V. Karachanskaya

Despite the success of fractional Brownian motion (fBm) in modeling systems that exhibit anomalous diffusion due to temporal correlations, recent experimental and theoretical studies highlight the necessity for a more comprehensive approach…

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