Orientadores: Marcus Vinícius Segantini Bonança, Maurice de Koning / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T07:13:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Acconcia_ThiagoVaz_M.pdf: 3294549 bytes, checksum: 001cb3dfa8e23080664b78fe7e5f527d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: A termodinâmica é uma teoria do calor e trabalho, a qual descreve perfeitamente os processos quase-estáticos somente. Entretanto, além dos estados de equilíbrio, nós encontramos uma ampla classe de processos operando em tempo finito. Uma meta onipresente na termodinâmica é a otimização dos processes a tempo finito através da minimização do trabalho dissipado ou trabalho em excesso. Para o oscilador harmônico paramétrico, nós derivamos uma família altamente degenerada de protocolos ótimos a tempo finito, ao longo dos quais o trabalho em excesso produzido se anula exatamente. Para isso, o sistema de interesse se mantém termicamente isolado durante todo o processo de atuação do protocolo de switching. Esses protocolos ótimos são obtidos através da teoria de resposta linear para sistemas inicialmente preparados segundo uma distribuição canônica. Para sistemas com um grau de liberdade, mostramos evidências de que esses caminhos ótimos podem também levar à conservação do invariante adiabático correspondente. Além dos resultados analíticos para os osciladores harmônicos clássico e quântico, nós apresentamos resultados numéricos para alguns exemplos anarmônicos. Finalmente, nós reformulamos os resultados anteriores quantificando-os em termos do comprimento termodinâmico para a versão quântica do sistema oscilador harmônico / Abstract: Thermodynamics is a theory of heat and work, which describes perfectly only the quasistatic processes. However, if we shift our view away from the equilibrium states, we find a wide class of processes operating in finite-time. An ubiquitous goal in thermodynamics is to optimize the finite time processes by minimizing the dissipated or excess work. For the parametric harmonic oscillator, we derive a family of degenerated finite-time optimal protocols for which the excess work during a non-equilibrium process vanishes exactly. For this, the system of interest is kept thermally isolated during the switching of a control parameter. These optimal paths are obtained within linear response for systems initially prepared in a canonical distribution. For systems with one degree of freedom, we claim that these optimal paths may also lead to the conservation of the corresponding adiabatic invariant. Besides the analytical results for both classical and quantum harmonic oscillator, we present numerical results for certain anharmonic examples. Finally, we discuss the reformulation of the latter results terms of the thermodynamic length for the quantum version of the harmonic oscillator system / Mestrado / Física / Mestre em Física

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第23450号 / 理博第4744号 / 新制||理||1680(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科物理学・宇宙物理学専攻 / (主査)教授 早川 尚男, 教授 佐々 真一, 教授 川上 則雄 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

A collection of published papers on the subject of classical nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. Mainly stochastic systems are considered, with special regard to applications in soft matter physics

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第20895号 / 理博第4347号 / 新制||理||1624(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科物理学・宇宙物理学専攻 / (主査)教授 佐々 真一, 教授 川上 則雄, 教授 早川 尚男 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

In this thesis we have explored the no equilibrium phase behavior and dynamics of an agitated monolayer of macroscopic rod-like particles. The main objective of this thesis was to highlight the ways in which even the simplest nonequilibrium 2Dliquid-crystallinen system differs qualitatively from its thermal equilibrium counter part. One major finding of ours is the extreme sensitivity to shape in these nonequilibrium systems. In chapter 3 we saw that tapering the ends of the particles induced a change from 2–fold ordering to 4–fold ordering. As far as we know, this is the first experimental observation of ‘tetratic’ correlations in equilibrium or nonequilibrium settings. This shape dependence is also pronounced in the single particle dynamics where, in chapter 5, we saw that similar-shaped objects behave differently even if they have dissimilar aspect ratios. Another important finding of ours is that the density fluctuations in the nonequilibrium nematic are not merely larger than, but qualitatively different from, those seen in their equilibrium counterparts: the fluctuations of the population, in a region containing on average N particles, grow much faster than √N . Then on equilibrium nature of the systems we study is clearly visible even at the single-particle level where we observe violations of equipartition in all the particles we study. The anomalous fluctuations we observe can be under stood in the light of theories of flocking. We have motivated why our system can be thought of as a granular flock and in chapter 4 presented various quantitative observations that justify this claim: we see giant fluctuations that decay only logarithmically in time as predicted by a theory of active nematics. This supports the idea that granular systems can provide a faithful imitation of the collective dynamics of living flocks, thus offering an attractive and easily control able system on which to test the predictions of flocking theories. A part from being a table-top experiment, , our system has the two substantial advantages over living systems that there are no products of metabolism which need removing and that the population remains constant. Our work highlights the fact that the fascinating phenomena of flocking ,coherent motion and large-scale in homogeneity seen in living matter can be obtained in a system in which particles do not communicate except by contact, have no sensing mechanisms and are not influenced by the spatially-varying pressures and incentives of a biological environment. Directions to go from here are aplenty. There is a lot that needs to be done towards understanding the origins of the anomalous fluctuations: do they arise due to the coupling of mass currents to gradients in the nematic director field or is there some other mechanism at play? Though the observed motion of disclinations suggests the former, a thorough hand systematic study of defect behavior is lacking. How defects interact and whether there is any analogy to thermal-equilibrium defect-behavior is completely unexplored, theoretically and experimentally. Indeed, this would be of interest purely as a problem in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics independent of whether or not the system is described by theories of active nematics. A part from settling the important, fundamental issues regarding the giant fluctuations, one can explore the entire spectrum of rod-like particles and study its dynamics and phase behaviour. What happens to collections of javelins that are agitated in 2D geometries? Do they form steadily-moving flocks? What about the short cylinders? We have seen that in the dilute limit they behave in a polar fashion but at high area fractions they form a polar, 4–fold correlated states. At Intermediate densities will they form a polar phase? Why is it that the long cylinders do not show any polar dynamics? What factors govern whether a particle is polar or not? Can one engineer particles to efficiently translate random impulses in to directed motion? Thus, even the single particle dynamics offers many avenues for experimental exploration. However, there is also scope for theoretical work in this direction. A sound theoretical understanding of the individual particle’s behaviour will then pave the way for a microscopic theory for the collective granular-rod state.. This can then be compared to the active and flocking literature which his, largely, of a phenomenological nature as of now. In conclusion, we would like to say that our experiments have revealed many important and fascinating nonequilibrium phenomena. Our experiments demonstrate situations where ‘effective equilibrium’ approaches are in adequate. Such descriptions can accommodate neither the slow, giant, collective fluctuations we observe nor the non-equipartition at the single-particle level. Finally, as is often the case, our studies have thrown open many more questions than they have answered. We hope our experiments stimulate further studies and we believe that we are witnessing the birth of a new subfield at the crossroads of granular physics and the physics of flocks.

In this thesis we studied theoretically and numerically dynamics, order and fluctuations in two dimensional active matter with specific reference to the nematic phase in collections of self-driven particles.The aim is to study the ways in which a nonequilibrium steady state with nematic order differs from a thermal equilibrium system of the same spatial symmetry. The models we study are closely related to “flocking”[1], as well as to equations written down to describe the interaction of molecular motors and filaments in a living cell[2,3] and granular nematics [4]. We look at (i) orientational and density fluctuations in the ordered phase, (ii) the way in which density fluctuations evolve in a nematic background, and finally (iii) the coarsening of nematic order and the density field starting from a statistically homogeneous and isotropic initial state. Our work establishes several striking differences between active nematics and their thermal equilibrium counterparts. We studied two-dimensional nonequilibrium active nematics. Two-dimensional nonequilibrium nematic steady states, as found in agitated granular-rod monolayers or films of orientable amoeboid cells, were predicted [5] to have giant number fluctuations, with the standard deviation proportional to the mean. We studied this problem more closely, asking in particular whether the active nematic steady state is intrinsically phase-separated. Our work has close analogy to the work of Das and Barma[6] on particles sliding downhill on fluctuating surfaces, so we looked at a model in which particles were advected passively by the broken-symmetry modes of a nematic, via a rule proposed in [5]. We found that an initially homogeneous distribution of particles on a well-ordered nematic background clumped spontaneously, with domains growing as t1/2, and an apparently finite phase-separation order parameter in the limit of large system size. The density correlation function shows a cusp, indicating that Porod’s Law does not hold here and that the phase-separation is fluctuation-dominated[7]. Dynamics of active particles can be implemented either through microscopic rules as in[8,9]or in a long-wavelength phenomenological approach as in[5]It is important to understand how the two methods are related. The purely phenomenological approach introduces the simplest possible (and generally additive)noise consistent with conservation laws and symmetries. Deriving the long-wavelength equation by explicit coarse-graining of the microscopic rule will in general give additive and multiplicative noise terms, as seen in e.g., in [10]. We carry out such a derivation and obtain coupled fluctuating hydrodynamic equations for the orientational order parameter (polar as well as apolar) and density fields. The nonequilibrium “curvature-induced” current term postulated on symmetry grounds in[5]emerges naturally from this approach. In addition, we find a multiplicative contribution to the noise whose presence should be of importance during coarsening[11]. We studied nonequilibrium phenomena in detail by solving stochastic partial differential equations for apolar objects as obtained from microscopic rules in[8]. As a result of “curvature-induced” currents, the growth of nematic order from an initially isotropic, homogeneous state is shown to be accompanied by a remarkable clumping of the number density around topological defects. The consequent coarsening of both density and nematic order are characterised by cusps in the short-distance behaviour of the correlation functions, a breakdown of Porod’s Law. We identify the origins of this breakdown; in particular, the nature of the noise terms in the equations of motion is shown to play a key role[12]. Lastly we studied an active nematic steady-state, in two space dimensions, keeping track of only the orientational order parameter, and not the density. We apply the Dynamic Renormalization Group to the equations of motion of the order parameter. Our aim is to check whether certain characteristic nonlinearities entering these equations lead to singular renormalizations of the director stiffness coefficients, which would stabilize true long-range order in a two-dimensional active nematic, unlike in its thermal equilibrium counterpart. The nonlinearities are related to those in[13]but free of a constraint that applies at thermal equilibrium. We explore, in particular, the intriguing but ultimately deceptive similarity between a limiting case of our model and the fluctuating Burgers/KPZequation. By contrast with that case, we find that the nonlinearities are marginally irrelevant. This implies in particular that 2-dactive nematics too have only quasi-long-range order[14].

Le grenaillage ultrason est un procédé mécanique de traitement de surfaces. Il consiste à projeter des billes à la surface de pièces métalliques, à l’aide d’un système acoustique vibrant ultrasonore. Lors du traitement, les billes sont contenues dans une enceinte spécialement conçue pour la pièce à traiter, et adoptent un comportement similaire à celui d’un gaz granulaire vibré. Le grenaillage ultrason sert à introduire des contraintes résiduelles de compression dans le matériau traité. Ces contraintes de compression sont bénéfiques pour la tenue en fatigue de la pièce et sa résistance à la corrosion sous contraintes.L’objectif des présents travaux de thèse consiste à modéliser la dynamique des billes pendant le traitement, et pour des pièces et géométries complexes. En effet, depuis son industrialisation, la mise au point du procédé se fait de manière empirique qui, avec la complexification des pièces mécaniques traitées pousse cette approche à ses limites. La mise au point peut donc s’avérer coûteuse en temps et aboutir à une solution partiellement optimisée. Ainsi, le modèle développé donne accès à une compréhension détaillée du grenaillage ultrason dans des conditions de traitement industrielles. Il constitue pour la première fois un outil d’aide à la conception des enceintes de traitement, offrant la possibilité d’une meilleure maitrise et optimisation du traitement, tout en réduisant les coûts de mise au point. La seconde contribution est de fournir aux modèles de prédiction des contraintes des données fiables et réalistes / Ultrasonic shot peening is a mechanical surface treatment process. It consists on projecting spherical shot onto a metallic surface, using an ultrasonic accoustic system. During the treatement, the shot are contained in a chamber, specially designed for the peened part, and behave similarely to a vibrated granular gas. Ultrasonic shot peening is used to introduce compressive residual stresses in the peened material. These compressive stresses help increasing the fatigue life span of the part and its resistance to stress corrosion cracking.The objectif of the present work consists on modeling the shot dynamics of the shot during the traitement, and for complex parts and geometries. Since its industrialization, the choice of the process parameters is done experimentally with trial and error. And with the ever increasing complexity of the peened parts, this approach is reaching its limits; thus becoming sometimes time consuming and providing partially optimized solutions.Therfore, the developped model gives access to a detailed understanding of ultrasonic shot peening in industrial treatment conditions. It represents for the first time a support tool for the design of peening chambers. This offers the possibility of a better control and optimization of the process, while reducing development costs. The second contribution lies in the model capacity to provide reliable and realistic input data to residual stresses prediction models

Dans cette thèse nous étudions des systèmes hamiltoniens de particules en interaction, où chaque particule est faiblement couplée avec son propre thermostat de type Langevin de température positive arbitraire. Les modèles peuvent être vu comme des cristaux plongés dans un milieu continue et interagissants faiblement avec ce dernier.Nous nous intéressons au transport d'énergie dans les systèmes quand les couplages des particules avec leurs thermostats tendent vers zéro simultanément avec les couplages entre eux.Nous examinons deux situations opposées, quand la mesure de Lebesgue des resonances du système de particules découplées est nulle et quand elle est pleine. Dans le premier cas, en utilisant la méthode de moyennisation stochastique, nous démontrons que dans la limite ci-dessus le comportement de l'énergie locale des particules sur des intervalles de temps longs, et dans le régime stationnaire est donné par une équation autonome stochastique, laquelle predit uniquement le transport d'énergie non hamiltonien.Dans le second cas, en utilisant la méthode de moyennisation resonante stochastique, nous prouvons que la dynamique limite de l'énergie locale est contrôlée par une équation efficace stochastique. La dernière prevoit le transport d'energie hamiltonien entre les particules. Cependant, elle n'est pas autonome pour l'énergie locale. En utilisant cette asymptotique, nous montrons que dans la limite ci-dessus le flux d'énergie hamiltonien du système satisfait des relations qui ressemblent à la loi de Fourier et à la formule de Green-Kubo (cependant, elles ne le sont pas).La plupart des résultats et convergences que nous obtenons dans la thèse sont uniformes par rapport au nombre de particules dans les systèmes, qui rend nos résultats pertinents du point de vue de la physique statistique. / In the present thesis we study Hamiltonian systems of particles with weak nearest-neighbour interaction, where each particle is weakly coupled with its own stochastic Langevin-type thermostat of arbitrary positive temperature.The models can be seen as crystals plugged in some medium and weakly interacting with it.We are interested in the energy transport through the systems when the couplings of the particles with the thermostats go to zero simultaneously with their couplings with each other.We investigate two opposite situations, when resonances of the system of uncoupled particles have Lebesgue measure zero and when they are of full Lebesgue measure.In the first case, using the method of stochastic averaging, we prove that under the limit above behaviour of the local energy of particles on long time intervals and in a stationary regime is given by an autonomous stochastic equation, which does not provide any Hamiltonian energy transport.For the second situation, using the method of resonant stochastic averaging, we show that the limiting dynamics of the local energy is governed by a stochastic effective equation. The latter provides Hamiltonian energy transport between the particles, however, is not an autonomous equation for the local energy. Using this asymptotics, we prove that under the limit above the Hamiltonian energy flow in the system satisfies some relations which resemble the Fourier law and the Green-Kubo formula (however, which are not).Most of results and convergences obtained in the thesis are uniform with respect to the number of particles in the systems, what makes our results relevant from the point of view of statistical physics.

This thesis describes an experimental study on fluctuations of a Brownian particle immersed in a fluid, confined by optical tweezers and subject to two different kinds of non-equilibrium conditions. We aim to gain a rather general understanding of the relation between spontaneous fluctuations, linear response and total entropy production for processes away from thermal equilibrium. The first part addresses the motion of a colloidal particle driven into a periodic non-equilibrium steady state by a nonconservative force and its response to an external perturbation. The dynamics of the system is analyzed in the context of several generalized fluctuation-dissipation relations derived from different theoretical approaches. We show that, when taking into account the role of currents due to the broken detailed balance, the theoretical relations are verified by the experimental data. The second part deals with fluctuations and response of a Brownian particle in two different aging baths relaxing towards thermal equilibrium: a Laponite colloidal glass and an aqueous gelatin solution. The experimental results show that heat fluxes from the particle to the bath during the relaxation process play the same role of steady state currents as a non-equilibrium correction of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. Then, the present thesis provides evidence that the total entropy production constitutes a unifying concept which links the statistical properties of fluctuations and the linear response function for non-equilibrium systems either in stationary or non stationary states.

Ces travaux de thèse présentent une étude expérimentale des fluctuations d'une particule Brownienne soumise à deux différentes conditions hors-équilibre dans un fluide . Le but est de comprendre d'une manière générale la relation entre les fluctuations spontanées, la fonction de réponse linéaire et la production totale d'entropie des processus loin de l'équilibre thermique. La première partie est consacrée à l'étude du mouvement d'une particule colloïdale dans un état stationnaire périodique hors-équilibre induit par une force non-conservative et à sa réponse à une perturbation externe. Nous analysons la dynamique du système dans le contexte des différentes approches généralisées de fluctuation-dissipation. Nous montrons que ces relations théoriques sont satisfaites par les données expérimentales quand on prend en compte le rôle du courant du à la rupture du bilan détaillé. Dans une deuxième partie nous étudions les fluctuations et la réponse d'une particule Brownienne dans deux types de bains vieillissants qui relaxent vers l'équilibre thermique: un verre colloïdal de Laponite et une solution aqueuse de gélatine. Dans ce cas-là nous montrons que le flux de chaleur de la particule vers le bain pendant sa relaxation représente une correction hors-équilibre du théorème de fluctuation-dissipation. Donc, le flux de chaleur joue le même rôle que le courant dans un état stationnaire. En conséquence, les résultats de la thèse mettent en évidence l'importance générale de la production totale d'entropie pour quantifier les relations de fluctuation-dissipation généralisées dans les systèmes hors-équilibre. / This thesis describes an experimental study on fluctuations of a Brownian particle immersed in a fluid, confined by optical tweezers and subject to two different kinds of non-equilibrium conditions. We aim to gain a rather general understanding of the relation between spontaneous fluctuations, linear response and total entropy production for processes away from thermal equilibrium. The first part addresses the motion of a colloidal particle driven into a periodic non-equilibrium steady state by a nonconservative force and its response to an external perturbation. The dynamics of the system is analyzed in the context of several generalized fluctuation-dissipation relations derived from different theoretical approaches. We show that, when taking into account the role of currents due to the broken detailed balance, the theoretical relations are verified by the experimental data. The second part deals with fluctuations and response of a Brownian particle in two different aging baths relaxing towards thermal equilibrium: a Laponite colloidal glass and an aqueous gelatin solution. The experimental results show that heat fluxes from the particle to the bath during the relaxation process play the same role of steady state currents as a non-equilibrium correction of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. Then, the present thesis provides evidence that the total entropy production constitutes a unifying concept which links the statistical properties of fluctuations and the linear response function for non-equilibrium systems either in stationary or non stationary states.