A formally exact relation is derived which connects thermodynamically non-equilibrium evolution of gas density distribution after its arbitrary strong spatially non-uniform perturbation and evolution of many-particle correlations between path of some marked particle and its surroundings in equilibrium gas. This relation directly confirms significance of the many-particle correlations even under the Boltzmann-Grad limit and thus validates the earlier suggested revision of kinetics.
Brownian motion of particle interacting with atoms of ideal gas is discussed as a key problem of kinetics lying at the border between ``dead'' systems like the Lorentz gas or formal constructs of conceptual Boltzmannian kinetics and actual ``alive'' systems like mere gas possessing scaleless (1/f) fluctuations in their kinetic characteristics (e.g. in diffusuvity and mobility of the ``Brownian particle'').
An attempt is made to compare statistical properties of self-diffusion of particles constituting gases in infinite volume and on torus. In this first part, equations are derived which represent roughened but solvable variant of the collisional approximation to exact BBGKY equations. With their help, statistics of Brownian motion in infinite gas is considered, under the Boltzmann-Grad limit, and shown to be essentially non-Gaussian, involving 1/f fluctuations in diffusivity.
An attempt is made to compare statistical properties of self-diffusion of particles constituting gases in infinite volume and on torus. In this second part, derivation, from BBGKY equations, of roughened model of self-diffusion is revised as applied to finite $N$-particle gas under micro-canonical ensemble. The model confirms existence of characteristic time $\approx N$, in units of free flight time, for cross-over between non-Gaussian and Gaussian regimes of diffusion, but then loses its legacy.
In contrast with a gas at thermodynamic equilibrium, the mean force exerted on a wall by a gas of active particles usually depends on the confining potential, thereby preventing a proper definition of mechanical pressure. In this paper, we investigate numerically the properties of a gas of underdamped self-propelled dumbbells subject to Brownian noise of increasing intensity, in order to understand how the notion of pressure is recovered as noise progressively masks the effects of self-propulsion and the system approaches thermodynamic equilibrium. The simulations performed for a mobile asymme…
A covariant Fokker-Planck type equation for a simple gas and an equation for the Brownian motion are derived from a relativistic kinetic theory based on the Boltzmann equation. For the simple gas the dynamic friction four-vector and the diffusion tensor are identified and written in terms of integrals which take into account the collision processes. In the case of Brownian motion, the Brownian particles are considered as non-relativistic whereas the background gas behaves as a relativistic gas. A general expression for the semi-relativistic viscous friction coefficient is obtained and the part…
We analyze the dynamics of a Brownian gas in contact with a heat bath in which large temperature fluctuations occur. There are two distinct time scales present, one describes the decay of the fluctuations in the temperature and the other one is associated with the establishment of local equilibrium. Although the gas has reached local equilibrium, there exist large fluctuations in an intensive parameter (temperature) which break the thermodynamic equilibrium with the heat bath. Thus the decay of the fluctuations in the intensive parameter is larger than the characteristic time for the establish…
We investigate the motion of a wedge-shaped object (a granular Brownian motor), which is restricted to move along the x-axis and cannot rotate, as gas particles collide with it. We show that its steady-state drift, resulting from inelastic gas-motor collisions, is dramatically affected by anisotropy in the velocity distribution of the gas. We identify the dimensionless parameter providing the dependence of this drift on shape, masses, inelasticity, and anisotropy: the anisotropy leads to a dramatic breaking of equipartition, which should easily be visible in experimental realizations.
Real thermal motion of gas molecules, free electrons, etc., at long time intervals (much greater than mean free-flight time) possesses, contrary to its popular mathematical models, essentially non-Gaussian statistics. A simple proof of this statement is suggested basing on only the determinism and reversibility of microscopic dynamics and besides incidentally derived virial expansion of a path probability distribution of molecular Brownian particle.
We investigate a model describing the dynamics of a gas of self-gravitating Brownian particles. This model can also have applications for the chemotaxis of bacterial populations. We focus here on the collapse phase obtained at sufficiently low temperature/energy and on the post-collapse regime following the singular time where the central density diverges. Several analytical results are illustrated by numerical simulations.
Brownian motion in a granular gas in a homogeneous cooling state is studied theoretically and by means of molecular dynamics. We use the simplest first-principle model for the impact-velocity dependent restitution coefficient, as it follows for the model of viscoelastic spheres. We reveal that for a wide range of initial conditions the ratio of granular temperatures of Brownian and bath particles demonstrates complicated non-monotonous behavior, which results in transition between different regimes of Brownian dynamics: It starts from the ballistic motion, switches later to superballistic one …
Explicit density expansions of non-equilibrium probability distribution functions for molecular Brownian particle in ideal gas are obtained in original form what visually implies (is exact solution to) the previously established dynamical virial relations. Role of these relations in unbiased analysis of molecular chaos properties in many-particle statistical mechanics, including the mobility 1/f noise, is newly investigated in clear terms of conditional probabilities and averages.
A Brownian particle in an ideal quantum gas is considered. The mean square displacement (MSD) is derived. The Bose-Einstein or Fermi-Dirac distribution, other than the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, provides a different stochastic force compared with the classical Brownian motion. The MSD, which depends on the thermal wavelength and the density of medium particles, reflects the quantum effect on the Brownian particle explicitly. The result shows that the MSD in an ideal Bose gas is shorter than that in a Fermi gas. The behavior of the quantum Brownian particle recovers the classical Brownian …
Exact generalized stochastic representation of deterministic interaction between two dynamical (quantum or classical) systems is derived which helps when considering one of them to replace another by equivalent commutative ($c$-number valued) random sources. The method is applied to classical Brownian motion of a particle in a gas, and statistics of this motion is reduced to statistics of the gas response to perturbations.
The BBGKY hierarchy of equations for a particle interacting with ideal gas is analyzed in terms of irreducible many-particle correlations between gas atoms and the particle's motion. The transition to the hard-sphere interaction is formulated from viewpoint of the recently discovered exact relations connecting the correlations with the particle's probability distribution. Then the Boltzmann-Grad limit is considered and shown not to lead to the Bolzmann hierarchy and the molecular chaos, since correlations of all orders keep significant.in this limit, merely taking a singular form.
A theory of Brownian motion is presented for an assembly of vortices. The attempt is motivated by a realization of Dyson' Coulomb gas in the context of quantum condensates. By starting with the time-dependent Landau-Ginzburg (LG) theory, the dynamics of the vortex gas is constructed, which is governed by the canonical equation of motion. The dynamics of point vortices is converted to the Langevin equation, which results in the generalized Fokker-Planck (GFP) (or Smolkovski) equation using the functional integral on the ansatz of the Gaussian white noise. The GFP, which possesses a non-Hermitia…
We present an insightful ``derivation'' of the Langevin equation and the fluctuation dissipation theorem in the specific context of a heavier particle moving through an ideal gas of much lighter particles. The Newton's Law of motion ($m{\ddot x}=F$) for the heavy particle reduces to a Langevin equation (valid on a coarser time scale) with the assumption that the lighter gas particles follow a Boltzmann velocity distribution. Starting from the kinematics of the random collisions we show that (1) the average force $<F> \propto -{\dot x}$ and (2) the correlation function of the fluctuating force …
We consider a gas of independent Brownian particles on a bounded interval in contact with two particle reservoirs at the endpoints. Due to the Brownian nature of the particles, infinitely many particles enter and leave the system in each time interval. Nonetheless, the dynamics can be constructed as a Markov process with continuous paths on a suitable space. If $λ_0$ and $λ_1$ are the chemical potentials of the boundary reservoirs, the stationary distribution (reversible if and only if $λ_0=λ_1$) is a Poisson point process with intensity given by the linear interpolation between $λ_0$ and $λ_1…
We consider the dynamics of a gas of free bosons within a semi-classical Fokker-Planck equation for which we give a physical justification. In this context, we find a striking similarity between the Bose-Einstein condensation in the canonical ensemble, and the gravitational collapse of a gas of classical self-gravitating Brownian particles. The paper is mainly devoted to the complete study of the Bose-Einstein ``collapse'' within this model. We find that at the Bose-Einstein condensation temperature $T_c$, the chemical potential $μ(t)$ vanishes exponentially with a universal rate that we compu…
Einstein realised that the fluctuations of a Brownian particle can be used to ascertain properties of its environment. A large number of experiments have since exploited the Brownian motion of colloidal particles for studies of dissipative processes, providing insight into soft matter physics, and leading to applications from energy harvesting to medical imaging. Here we use optically levitated nanospheres that are heated to investigate the non-equilibrium properties of the gas surrounding them. Analysing the sphere's Brownian motion allows us to determine the temperature of the centre-of-mass…
We report on specific effects of collective scattering for a cloud of heavy impurities exposed to a gas stream. Formation is presented of a common density perturbation and shock waves, both generated collectively by a system of scatterers at sudden application of the stream-inducing external field. Our results demonstrate that (i) the scattering of gas stream can be essentially amplified, due to nonlinear collective effects, upon fragmentation of a solid obstacle into a cluster of impurities (heterogeneously fractured obstacle); (ii) a cluster of disordered impurities can produce considerably …
As a first step towards a successful field theory of Brownian particles in interaction, we study exactly the non-interacting case, its combinatorics and its non-linear time-reversal symmetry. Even though the particles do not interact, the field theory contains an interaction term: the vertex is the hallmark of the original particle nature of the gas and it enforces the constraint of a strictly positive density field, as opposed to a Gaussian free field. We compute exactly all the n-point density correlation functions, determine non-perturbatively the Poissonian nature of the ground state and e…
We develop the analogy between self-gravitating Brownian particles and bacterial populations. In the high friction limit, the self-gravitating Brownian gas is described by the Smoluchowski-Poisson system. These equations can develop a self-similar collapse leading to a finite time singularity. Coincidentally, the Smoluchowski-Poisson system corresponds to a simplified version of the Keller-Segel model of bacterial populations. In this biological context, it describes the chemotactic aggregation of the bacterial colonies. We extend these classical models by introducing a small-scale regularizat…
A new type of Coulomb gas is defined, consisting of arbitrary numbers of point charges of two species executing Brownian motions under the influence of their mutual electrostatic repulsion. Being a generalization of a model of identical particles introduced by Dyson as a dynamical system describing non-equilibrium state of various random matrix ensembles, our system gives an exact mathematical description of the Brownian motion of charges of magnitudes $ Q_1 $ and $ Q_2 $, such that $ βQ_1 Q_2 = 1 $ on the line or circle, where $β$ is an inverse temperature of the gas.
