C06: Driven activation in a nonequilibrium bath

Funding period: 2021 – 2024 

Project leader: Matthias Fuchs

Scientific staff: Nikolas Ditz, Saswati Ganguly, Stefan Gerlach

The activated crossing of an energy barrier is a ubiquitous dynamical process in materials, yet activation far from thermal equilibrium and in high dimensional energy landscapes remains poorly understood. The project will develop a theoretical framework for studying the spectroscopy of intramolecular fluctuations of a bistable probe particle in a flowing fluid or deforming amorphous solid. The conditions for observing activated dynamics in the nonlinear (double-well) potential coupled to the driven particulate bath will be investigated from first principles and the concepts of mechanical noise and effective temperature scrutinized.

List of publications

Current preprints

2023

2021

Further Publications