Research Projects

This project aims to explore transport phenomena and active matter in nonequilibrium statistical physics. Active matter, consisting of self-propelled particles, is a significant field in nature, exhibiting complex phenomena. Understanding how active matter affects passive systems coupled to it is crucial. The project focuses on studying energy and particle transport in low-dimensional systems connected to active reservoirs of different activity. The first part of the project will focus on activity-driven energy transport in one-dimensional systems, which are modelled as chains of oscillators coupled to two active reservoirs. The study will also investigate the effect of pinning and disorders using nonequilibrium Green's function and nonequilibrium response theory. The next objective is to use a microscopic model for active reservoirs and develop an effective formalism to study transport properties. The project also proposes studying activity-driven particle transport using simple lattice models like zero-range processes connected to active particle reservoirs. The project aims to extend its analysis to two-dimensional systems and advance the field of nonequilibrium statistical physics. The outcome of this project is expected to be of interest to the general statistical physics community.