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Chiara Pezzotti

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arXiv2025

Long-tailed dissipationless hydromechanics: weak thermalization and ergodicity breaking

We analyze the dynamic properties of dissipationless Generalized Langevin Equations in the presence of fluid inertial kernels possessing power-law tails, $k(t) \sim t^{-κ}$. While for $κ>1$ the dynamics is manifestly non ergodic, no thermalization occurs, and particle motion is ballistic, new phenomena arise for $0 < κ<1$. In this case, a form of weak thermalization appears in the presence of thermal/hydrodynamic fluctuations and attractive potentials. However, the absence of dissipation clearly emerges once an external constant force is applied: an asymptotic settling velocity cannot be achieved as the expected value of the particle velocity diverges.

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arXiv2024

Fluid-particle interactions and fluctuation-dissipation relations I -- General linear theory and basic fluctuational patterns

The article provides a unitary and complete solution to the fluctuation-dissipation relations for particle hydromechanics in a generic fluid, accounting for the hydrodynamic fluid-particle interactions (including arbitrary memory kernels in the description of dissipative and fluid inertial effects) in linear hydrodynamic regimes, via the concepts of fluctuational patterns. This is achieved by expressing the memory kernels as a linear superposition of exponentially decaying modes. Given the structure of the interaction with the internal degrees of freedom, and assuming the representation of the thermal force as a superposition of modal contributions, the fluctuation-dissipation relation follows simply from the moment analysis of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation, imposing the condition that at equilibrium all the internal degrees of freedom are uncorrelated with particle velocity. Moreover, the functional structure of the resulting equation of motion corresponds to the principle of complete decoupling amongst the internal degrees of freedom. The theory is extended to the case of confined geometries, by generalizing previous results including the effect of fluid inertia.

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arXiv2024

Fluid-particle interactions and fluctuation-dissipation relations II -- Gaussianity and Gaussianity breaking

The analysis of fluctuation-dissipation relations developed in Giona et al. (2024) for particle hydromechanics is extended to stochastic forcings alternative to Wiener processes, with the aim of addressing the occurrence of Gaussian equilibrium densities or alternatively the breaking of the Gaussian paradigm at equilibrium. Preliminarly, it is discussed how the determination of the fluctuational patterns starting from the Gaussian approach to Markov processes is practically unfeasible, and the moment analysis provides the simplest way to achieve it. We show the existence of an uncountable family of white-noise processes, different from the distributional derivatives of Wiener processes, and satisfying the requirement of fluctuational independence, i.e. the basic assumption on thermal fluctuations in the Kubo theory based on the Langevin condition. The importance of this extension is that it may provide a transition from mesoscopic to microscopic (event-based) stochastic modeling. In this framework, the derivatives of Wiener processes constitute a very peculiar, albeit continuous, element of this class. The fluctuational patterns driven by non-Wiener stochastic forcings display in general non-Gaussian velocity fluctuations at equilibrium, and the Gaussian case is recovered in the limit of small perturbations. Finally, a fully hydromechanic approach to anomalous diffusion is provided, both in the subdiffusive and in the superdiffusive cases.

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arXiv2024

Fluid-particle interactions and fluctuation-dissipation relations III -- Correlated fluctuations, regularity and added mass

The fluctuation-dissipation theory is grounded on the Langevin condition expressing the local independence between the thermal force and the particle velocity history. Upon hydrodynamic grounds, it is reasonable to relax this condition in order to account for the correlated fluid fluctuations, especially in the case of liquids, consistently with the inclusion of acoustic effects and with the finite speed of propagation of internal shear stresses. We show that the introduction of correlated stochastic processes in the basic fluctuational patterns defined in Giona et al. (2024), preserves the global fluctuation-dissipation relation, connecting diffusivity to the global friction factor, and the resulting velocity fluctuations become almost everywhere smooth functions of time. Moreover, a fluctuational added mass arises as a consequence of correlations. This leads to a fluctuation-inertia relation, connecting the fluctuational added mass at microscale to its occurrence for macroscopic objects.

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arXiv2024

Generalized fluctuation-dissipation relations in confined geometries and concentrated conditions

his article extends the fluctuation-dissipation analysis to generic complex fluids in confined geometries and to all the cases the hydromechanic fluid-interaction kernels may depend on the particle position. This represents a completely new way of enforcing fluctuation-dissipation theory just because the primary target is to derive an explicit functional expression for the hydromechanic force (that is unavailable from linear hydrodynamic theory) from fundamental thermodynamic principles at equilibrium (while in the classical Kubo theory the memory kernels are explicitly known, stemming from the mean-field hydromechanics of fluid-particle interactions). In this way, either the representation of hydromechanic interactions and the explicit representation of the thermal forces are derived at the same time from thermodynamic principles. The physical and conceptual implications of these results are addressed. The theory can be extended to concentrated conditions and to suspensions, as well as to active particle in confined geometries accounting for the most general linear fluid-dynamic conditions.

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arXiv2024

Dynamic fluctuation-dissipation theory for Generalized Langevin Equations: constructive constraints, stability and realizability

Using the initial-value formulation, a dynamic theory for systems evolving according to a Generalized Langevin Equation is developed, providing more restrictive conditions on the existence of equilibrium behavior and its fluctuation-dissipation implications. For systems fulfilling the property of local realizability, that for all the practical purposes corresponds to the postulate of the existence of a Markovian embedding, physical constraints, expressed in the form of dissipative stability and stochastic realizability are derived. If these two properties are met, Kubo theory is constructively recovered, while if one of these conditions is violated a thermodynamic equilibrium behavior does not exist (and this occurs also for `` well-behaved dissipative systems'' according to the classical Kubo theory), with significant implications in the linear response theory.

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arXiv2024

On the ergodicity breaking in well-behaved Generalized Langevin Equations

The phenomenon of ergodicity breaking of stochastic dynamics governed by Generalized Langevin Equations (GLE) in the presence of well-behaved exponentially decaying dissipative memory kernels, recently investigated by many authors (Phys. Rev. E {\bf 83} 062102 2011; Phys. Rev. E {\bf 98} 062140 2018; Eur. Phys. J. B {\bf 93} 184 2020), finds, in the dynamic theory of GLE, its simple and natural explanation, related to the concept of dissipative stability. It is shown that the occurrence of ergodicity breakdown for well-behaved dissipative kernels falls, in general, ouside the region of stochastic realizability, and therefore it cannot be observed in physical systems.

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arXiv2023

Chemical kinetics and stochastic differential equations

We propose a general stochastic formalism for describing the evolution of chemical reactions involving a finite number of molecules. This approach is consistent with the statistical analysis based on the Chemical Master Equation, and provides the formal setting for the existing algorithmic approaches (Gillespie algorithm). Some practical advantages of this formulation are addressed, and several examples are discussed pointing out the connection with quantum transitions (radiative interactions).

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arXiv2023

Particle-photon radiative interactions and thermalization

We analyze the statistical properties of radiative transitions for a molecular system possessing discrete, equally spaced, energy levels, interacting with thermal radiation at constant temperature. A radiative fluctuation-dissipation theorem is derived and the particle velocity distribution analyzed. It is shown analytically that, neglecting molecular collisions, the velocity distribution function cannot be Gaussian, as the equilibrium value for the kurtosis $κ$ is different from $κ=3$. A Maxwellian velocity distribution can be recovered in the limit of small radiative friction.

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arXiv2023

Another normality is possible. Distributive transformations and emergent Gaussianity

A distributional route to Gaussianity, associated with the concept of Conservative Mixing Transformations in ensembles of random vector-valued variables, is proposed. This route is completely different from the additive mechanism characterizing the application of Central Limit Theorem, as it is based on the iteration of a random transformation preserving the ensemble variance. Gaussianity emerges as a ``supergeneric'' property of ensemble statistics, in the case the energy constraint is quadratic in the norm of the variables. This result puts in a different light the occurrence of equilibrium Gaussian distributions in kinetic variables (velocity, momentum), as it shows mathematically that, in the absence of any other dynamic mechanisms, almost Gaussian distributions stems from the low-velocity approximations of the physical conservation principles. Whenever, the energy constraint is not expressed in terms of quadratic functions (as in the relativistic case), the Juttner distribution is recovered from CMT.

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