Ratchet transport of self-propelled chimeras in an asymmetric periodic structure

We studied the rectified transport of underdamped particles subject to phase lag in an asymmetric periodic structure. When the inertia effect is considered, it is possible to observe reversals of the average velocity with small self-propelled force, whereas particles always move in the positive direction with large self-propelled force. The introduction of phase lag leads particles to follow circular orbits and suppress the polar motion. In addition, this can adjust the direction of particle motion. There exists an optimal value of polar interaction strength at which the rectification is maximal. These results open the way for many application processes, such as spatial sorting of particles mixture and separation based on their physical properties.     

Current transport and mass separation for an asymmetric fluctuation system with correlated noises

We discuss the transport of an underdamped particle driven by an external fluctuation force in a spatially periodic asymmetric potential with correlated noises. The corresponding mathematical model is established. The movement of the steady current of an underdamped particle is presented by the method of the numerical simulation. It is indicated that the value of the current may be negative, zero, or positive. The external fluctuation force and correlated noises can effect the current direction. Under the appropriate parameters, the correlated noises intensity may even raise a reversal of the current.Besides, we have noticed a phenomenon that particles with different weight have different directions during movement by the impact of the correlated noises and external fluctuation force. Therefore, the Brownian particles can be effectively separated according to their masses.     

Stochastic resonance in periodic potentials driven by colored noise

We studied the motion of an underdamped Brownian particle in a periodic potential subject to a harmonic excitation and a colored noise. The average input energy per period and the phase lag are calculated to quantify the phenomenon of stochastic resonance (SR). The numerical results show that most of the out-of-phase trajectories make a transition to the in-phase state as the temperature increases. And the colored noise delays the transitions between these two dynamical states. The each curve of the average input energy per period and the phase lag versus the temperature exist a mono peak and SR appears in this system. Moreover, the optimal temperature where the SR occurs becomes larger and the region of SR grows wider as the correlation time of colored noise increases.     

Retainability of canonical distributions for a Brownian particle controlled by a time-dependent harmonic potential

The retainability of canonical distributions for a Brownian particle controlled by a time-dependent harmonic potential is investigated in the overdamped and underdamped situations, respectively. Because of different time scales, the overdamped and underdamped Langevin equations (as well as the corresponding Fokker-Planck equations) lead to distinctive restrictions on protocols maintaining canonical distributions. Two special cases are analyzed in details: First, a Brownian particle is controlled by a time-dependent harmonic potential and embedded in medium with constant temperature; Second, a Brownian particle is controlled by a timedependent harmonic potential and embedded in a medium whose temperature is tuned together with the potential stiffness to keep a constant effective temperature of the Brownian particle. We find that the canonical distributions are usually retainable for both the overdamped and underdamped situations in the former case. However, the canonical distributions are retainable merely for the overdamped situation in the latter case. We also investigate general time-dependent potentials beyond the harmonic form and find that the retainability of canonical distributions depends sensitively on the specific form of potentials.     

基于自回归模型的光阱中粒子运动模拟

通过分析光阱中颗粒位移信号特性, 建立描述粒子受限布朗运动过程的自回归模型, 进而提出了一种基于自回归模型的光阱中颗粒运动信号模拟的新方法. 对半径为1 μm的粒子处于光阱刚度分别为10, 20, 50 pN/μm 光阱时的位移信号进行了模拟, 得到的模拟位移信号的自相关函数与理论值相一致. 为了进一步阐明自回归模型的有效性, 在相同光阱参数下, 分别采用自回归模型与蒙特卡罗方法模拟光阱中微粒的位移信号, 采用功率谱法分别对两种模拟方法所得的微粒位移标定光阱刚度, 结果表明自回归模型方法能够取得和蒙特卡洛法相同的精度. 因此, 本文为分析光阱中粒子的随机运动提出了一种新的模拟方法, 可以用来对光阱中的噪声及特性进行分析. 关键词： 光阱 布朗运动 信号模拟 自回归模型     

Approach to the quantum evolution for underdamped, critically damped, and overdamped driven harmonic oscillators using unitary transformation

Exact solution of the Schrödinger equation is derived for underdamped, critically damped, and overdamped harmonic oscillators with a driving force. A unitary operator transforming Hamiltonian into a simple form is introduced. The transformed Hamiltonian, represented in terms of a modified frequency ω, is identical with the Hamiltonian of the standard harmonic oscillator for the underdamped oscillator, with the Hamiltonian of a free particle for the critically damped oscillator, and with the Hamiltonian of a system with a harmonic parabolic potential for the overdamped oscillator. The eigenvalues of underdamped oscillator are discrete while those of the critically damped and the overdamped oscillators are continuous.     

Novel vibrational resonance in multistable systems

We investigate the role of multistable states on the occurrence of vibrational resonance in a periodic potential system driven by both a low-frequency and a high-frequency periodic force in both underdamped and overdamped limits. In both cases, when the amplitude of the high-frequency force is varied, the response amplitude at the low-frequency exhibits a series of resonance peaks and approaches a limiting value. Using a theoretical approach, we analyse the mechanism of multiresonance in terms of the resonant frequency and the stability of the equilibrium points of the equation of motion of the slow variable. In the overdamped system, the response amplitude is always higher than in the absence of the high-frequency force. However, in the underdamped system, this happens only if the low-frequency is less than 1. In the underdamped system, the response amplitude is maximum when the equilibrium point around which slow oscillations take place is maximally stable and minimum at the transcritical bifurcation. And in the overdamped system, it is maximum at the transcritical bifurcation and minimum when the associated equilibrium point is maximally stable. When the periodicity of the potential is truncated, the system displays only a few resonance peaks.     

基于Geant4的回旋加速器束流动力学计算

针对回旋加速器的束流动力学设计,基于Geant4模拟研究,提供一种可行的数值模拟方法。通过电磁场仿真软件Opera建立相应的电磁场数据导入到Geant4中进行插值计算,利用Geant4自带的电磁场微分方程与微分方程求解器计算粒子的平衡轨道,振荡频率以及加速轨道。其结果表明:对于横向运动而言,Geant4的计算结果与传统数值方法计算结果趋于一致;对于轴向运动而言,由于磁场插值方法的差异性,二者有一定的区别,对于在加速过程中的非平衡粒子,其能量变化围绕平衡粒子振荡。对于束损,通过限制粒子的运动时间,轴向位移加快计算效率,加入电极碰撞的判定使模拟更趋近实际情况。     

Constrained Brownian Motion of a Single Ellipsoid in a Narrow Channel

We study the Brownian motion of a single ellipsoidal particle diffusing in a narrow channel by video-microscopy measurement. The experiments allow us to obtain the trajectories of ellipsoids and measure the diffusion coefficients. It is found that the channel constraints lead to suppression of the particle motion, especially the perpendicular motion to the channel, and the long axis of the particle tends to be parallel to the channel. A stable stratification phenomenon is observed, which is rarely discussed in studies of spherical particles. We also derive an approximate solution of theoretical prediction with the method of reflections, and obtain numerical simulation results using finite element software. They are proven to be effective by comparing them with the experimental results. All of these indicate that the aspect ratio and size of ellipsoid, the width of channel, and the transverse position distinctly affect the Brownian motion of ellipsoids.     

气温和颗粒密度对声场中颗粒动力学影响的数值模拟

综合考虑黏性夹带力、Basset力、虚拟质量力和压力梯度力,建立颗粒在声场中的动力学模型,利用变步长四阶RungeKutta算法和二阶隐式Adams插值算法对颗粒的受力和运动进行数值模拟。将模拟和实验得到的颗粒运动特性进行对比,验证数值模拟的正确性。在此基础上,研究气温和颗粒密度对颗粒动力学的影响规律。结果表明,黏性夹带力对颗粒运动起主导作用;气温升高,压力梯度力与黏性夹带力之间的相位差减小,Basset力、虚拟质量力与黏性夹带力之间的相位差增大。研究还发现,气温较低时,颗粒密度对颗粒运动有重要影响,夹带系数随着密度的增加而迅速下降;气温较高时,颗粒密度对颗粒运动的影响较小,颗粒位移振幅和夹带系数相对低温时明显增加。      

Critical exponent of the fractional Langevin equation

We investigate the dynamical phase diagram of the fractional Langevin equation and show that critical exponents mark dynamical transitions in the behavior of the system. For a free and harmonically bound particle the critical exponent alpha(c)=0.402+/-0.002 marks a transition to a nonmonotonic underdamped phase. The critical exponent alpha(R)=0.441... marks a transition to a resonance phase, when an external oscillating field drives the system. Physically, we explain these behaviors using a cage effect, where the medium induces an elastic type of friction. Phase diagrams describing the underdamped, the overdamped and critical frequencies of the fractional oscillator, recently used to model single protein experiments, show behaviors vastly different from normal.     

Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Particle-Particle Interaction in Steady Poiseuille Flow

The moving behaviour of two- and three-particles in a pressure-driven flow is studied by the lattice Boltzmann simulation in two dimensions. The time-dependent values, including particles＇ radial positions, translational velocities, angular velocities, and the x-directional distance between the particles are analysed extensively. The effect of flow Reynolds number on particle motion is also investigated numerically. The simulation results show that the leading particle equilibrium position is closer to the channel centre while the trailing particle equilibrium position is closer to the channel wall. If Reynolds number Re is less than 85.30, the larger flow Reynolds number results in the smaller x-directional equilibrium distance, otherwise the x-directional distance increases almost linearly with the increase of time and the particles separate finally. The simulation results are helpful to understand the particle-particle interaction in suspensions with swarms of particles.     

Brownian surfers

We show that under certain conditions a travelling-wave field of force can trap an underdamped Brownian particle. This effect is most efficient at zero temperature and for wave speeds smaller than a threshold value independent of the damping constant: the Brownian particle acts then as a Brownian surfer. Brownian surfers are sensitive to both the amplitude of the dragging field and possible asymmetries of its waveform (travelling ratchets).     

Dispersionless transport in a washboard potential

We study and characterize a new dynamical regime of underdamped particles in a tilted washboard potential. We find that for small friction in a finite range of forces the particles move essentially nondispersively, that is, coherently, over long intervals of time. The associated distribution of the particle positions moves at an essentially constant velocity and is far from Gaussian-like. This new regime is complementary to, and entirely different from, well-known nonlinear response and large dispersion regimes observed for other values of the external force.     

测定灵敏电流计外临界电阻的两种方法

根据电流计线圈的运动微分方程,求出线圈作欠阻尼运动时方程的通解．在通解中考察阻尼振动的衰减系数,本文导出了确定电流计外临界电阻Ｒｃ的函数表达式,并据此给出了两种测定Ｒｃ的方法     

Browninan motion in a fluctuating periodic potential

A classical Brownian particle is considered in a periodic potential field with a rapidly oscillating phase. The concept of effective potential is used for describing a slow averaged motion of a particle. It is shown that there exists a certain region in which a particle performs a stationary random motion without appreciable drift. By analogy with the ideal case, this region can be called an effective locking region. The situation described is valid for stationary fluctuations of the phase of a potential function, provided that they have a sufficiently small but finite correlation time. The study of the problem is reduced to the analysis of a stochastic system with external noise whose spectral density is zero at zero frequency (“green” noise [1]). The analysis of the first-and second-approximation equations of the averaging method exhibits the high stability of the locking phenomenon. This result has been verified by the numerical solution of appropriate stochastic equations. In this case, a predictor-corrector algorithm was used that allowed one to carry out a numerical simulation to a sufficiently high degree of accuracy. The result of the simulation is in good agreement with the theoretical results. The effective locking bandwidth calculated analytically by the averaging method actually coincides with the value obtained by the simulation.     

喷动床气固流动特性的三维CFD-DEM数值模拟

开展了柱锥形气固流动特性的CFD-DEM耦合三维数值模拟研究。气相场采用基于欧拉坐标体系的k-ε双方程湍流模型,固相场采用基于拉格朗日坐标体系的DEM直接数值模拟方法,跟踪离散颗粒场的每一个颗粒,考虑颗粒与颗粒(壁面)之间的碰撞力、曳力、重力、Magnus升力、saffman升力。颗粒之间的碰撞采用Hertz-Mindlin无滑移模型计算。模拟对象为柱锥形喷动床,其直径为0.152 m,喷口直径为0.019 m,模拟颗粒数22万,探讨了喷动床中射流随时间的发展,不同气速下床内气固流动结构,以及颗粒速度与颗粒浓度的分布,并与实验数据进行了对比。     

Self-diffusion in a liquid complex plasma

Self-diffusion has been experimentally studied in a two-dimensional underdamped liquid complex (dusty) plasma. It was found that the self-diffusion coefficient D increases linearly with the temperature T: D/omega(E)a2 = (0.019 +/- 0.007)(T/T(m) - 1), where T(m), omega(E), and a are the melting temperature, the Einstein frequency, and the mean particle separation, respectively. No superdiffusion was observed, whereas a subdiffusion occurred at temperatures close to melting.     

Relativistic motion of a free particle in a uniform gravitational field

The problem of the motion of a free particle in a uniform gravitational field is considered. A relativistic solution based on the assumption that the motion is a consequence of the curvature of spacetime is obtained. The results are compared with various results based on the assumption that spacetime is flat in a region in which the gravitational field is uniform. In the curved spacetime approach, if a particle is projected from a point in a uniform gravitational field, the vertical distance covered by the particle in infinite coordinate time is infinite, but the horizontal distance covered and the elapsed proper time of the particle are finite. If spacetime is assumed to be flat and the gravitational motion of a particle a consequence of a relativistic force proportional to the relative mass of the particle, then the results obtained for the motion of a particle in a uniform gravitational field are close to the curved spacetime results. All other assumptions, including the assumption that the motion of a particle in a uniform gravitational field is equivalent to the motion of a particle in a uniformly accelerating frame of reference, lead to results in serious disagreement with the curved spacetime results.     

空间发展湍流气粒两相平面混合层的大涡模拟与统计

本文对空间发展的湍流气固两相平面混合层流动进行了大涡模拟研究,其中气相亚网格尺度（SGS）使用结构函数模型,气相控制方程组采用SIMPLE方法求解,固体颗粒运动用拉格朗日方法计算。计算结果正确重现了流体涡结构的卷起、合并和破碎过程,以及小尺寸颗粒在涡边缘（低涡度区）的局部富集现象。对直径分别为42μm、72μm和135μm分别进行了模拟,并将统计结果和实验测量结果（Hishida　et　al[1]）比较,表明两者的平均速度吻合很好,但颗粒数密度和脉动速度存在较明显的差异,因此有必要对亚网格应力和颗粒之间的耦合作用以及拟序结构的三维性对颗粒运动的影响开展深入研究。