activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

An agitated oscillator chain

Aaron Beyen, Christian Maes, Ion Santra

We study how the stationary dynamics of an oscillator chain is modified when coupled to a bath of run-and-tumble particles. First, assuming time-scale separation, we derive the ind…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Negative Differential Heat Conductivity in a Harmonic Chain Coupled to a Particle Reservoir

Simon Krekels, Christian Maes, Ion Santra +1

When coupling thermal baths at different temperatures, negative differential thermal conductivity is typically attributed to nonlinear interactions in the connecting medium. In thi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Specific heat of thermally driven chains

Michiel Gautama, Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes +1

We investigate the thermal responses of a harmonic oscillator chain coupled at its boundaries to heat baths held at different temperatures. This setup sustains a steady energy flux…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Resetting in a viscoelastic bath: the bath remembers

Ion Santra, Debankur Das

We study stochastic resetting of a probe particle in a viscoelastic environment where only the probe is reset while the medium retains memory of its past dynamics. Using a minimal…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Exact Volterra series for mean field dynamics

Ion Santra, Matthias Krüger

We derive an exact Volterra series expansion for a mean field of an interacting particle system subject to a potential perturbation, expressing the Volterra expansion kernels in te…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Tracer dynamics in an interacting active bath: fluctuations and energy partition

Ritwick Sarkar, Ion Santra

We investigate the dynamics of a massive tracer particle coupled to an interacting active bath, modeled as a harmonic chain of overdamped active particles analytically, with an aim…