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A first-principles treatment of the vibrational dynamics of molecular chemisorbates on metal surfaces is presented. It is shown that the mean field quantum evolution of the vibrational position operator is determined by a quantum Langevin…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Vinod Krishna

We apply the macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT) to study the large-scale dynamical properties of Brownian particles with arbitrary pairwise interaction. By combining it with standard results of equilibrium statistical mechanics for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Aurélien Grabsch , Davide Venturelli , Olivier Bénichou

We develop a theory of Brownian motion of a massive particle, including the effects of inertia (Kramers' problem), in spaces with curvature and torsion. This is done by invoking the recently discovered generalized equivalence principle,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 H. Kleinert , S. V. Shabanov

A particle subjected to a fluctuating force originated from its interaction with an external quantum system undergoes quantum Brownian motion. This phenomenon is investigated in detail for the case of a particle confined by a harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Ygor de Oliveira Souza , Caio C. Holanda Ribeiro , Vitorio A. De Lorenci

In this work, we investigate the quantum Brownian motion of a point charge arising as a consequence of two fluctuating point-like boundaries. The study considers Dirichlet, Neumann, and mixed boundary conditions imposed on a real massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Eliza M. B. Guedes , Herondy Mota

We present a concise derivation of the Boltzmann form for single-particle energy distributions in classical many-body Hamiltonian systems. The derivation relies on two physical facts: coarse-graining-scale invariance of the empirical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Weicheng Fu , Yisen Wang , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

We propose in this work a fractional stochastic differential equation (FSDE) model consistent with the over-damped limit of the generalized Langevin equation model. As a result of the `fluctuation-dissipation theorem', the differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Lei Li , Jian-Guo Liu , Jianfeng Lu

We review how unitarity and stationarity in the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism naturally lead to a (quantum) generalized fluctuation-dissipation relation (gFDR) that works beyond thermal equilibrium. Non-Gaussian loop corrections are also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-04 Xinyi Chen-Lin

Diffusive transport properties of a quantum Brownian particle moving in a tilted spatially periodic potential and strongly interacting with a thermostat are explored. Apart from the average stationary velocity, we foremost investigate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Machura , M. Kostur , P. Talkner , J. Luczka , P. Hänggi

Inertial effects in fluctuations of the work to sustain a system in a nonequilibrium steady state are discussed for a dragged massive Brownian particle model using a path integral approach. We calculate the work distribution function in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-12 Tooru Taniguchi , E. G. D. Cohen

A diffusion process of a Brownian particle in a medium of temperature $T$ is re-considered. We assume that temperature of the medium fluctuates around its mean value. The velocity probability distribution is obtained. It is shown that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Luczka , B. Zaborek

We illustrate recent results concerning the validity of the work fluctuation theorem in open quantum systems [M. Campisi, P. Talkner, and P. H\"{a}nggi, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 102}, 210401 (2009)], by applying them to a solvable model of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-14 Michele Campisi , Peter Talkner , Peter Hänggi

We study the dynamics of an overdamped Brownian particle in a thermal bath that contains a dilute solution of active particles. The particle moves in a harmonic potential and experiences Poisson shot-noise kicks with specified amplitude…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-18 Costantino Di Bello , Rita Majumdar , Rahul Marathe , Ralf Metzler , Edgar Roldan

Starting from the microscopic Smoluchowski equation for interacting Brownian particles under stationary shearing, exact expressions for shear-dependent steady-state averages, correlation and structure functions, and susceptibilities are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthias Fuchs , Michael E. Cates

We investigate to what extent one can use a thermodynamic description of turbulent flow as a source of stochastic kinetic energy for three-dimensional self-assembly of magnetically interacting macroscopic particles. We confirm that the…

We construct a theory for the 1+1-dimensional Brownian motion in a viscous medium, which is (i) consistent with Einstein's theory of special relativity, and (ii) reduces to the standard Brownian motion in the Newtonian limit case. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jörn Dunkel , Peter Hänggi

Fluctuation Theorems are statements about the entropy of systems far from thermal equilibrium. In this Letter relativistic Fluctuation Theorems for Brownian motion are presented and proven. Though there is a known discretization dilemma…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Fingerle

We analytically study the role of nonconservative forces, namely viscous couplings, on the statistical properties of the energy flux between two Brownian particles kept at different temperatures. From the dynamical model describing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-01 Antoine Bérut , Alberto Imparato , Artyom Petrosyan , Sergio Ciliberto

We study the relation between the partition function of a non--relativistic particle, that describes the equilibrium fluctuations implicitly, and the partition function of the same system, deduced from the Langevin equation, that describes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-21 Stam Nicolis

A Brownian Motor is a nanoscale or molecular device that combines the effects of thermal noise, spatial or temporal asymmetry, and directionless input energy to drive directed motion. Because of the input energy, Brownian motors function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Dean Astumian