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Marco Biroli¹, Manas Kulkarni², Satya N Majumdar¹

¹LPTMS, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France.

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Correlated particle behavior emerges in a diffusing gas within a harmonic trap, even without direct interactions. This study reveals universal scaling functions for extreme particle positions, applicable across dimensions.

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Area of Science:

Statistical Mechanics
Non-equilibrium Physics
Complex Systems

Background:

Investigating emergent correlations in systems of noninteracting particles.
Understanding particle dynamics in harmonic traps with time-dependent potentials.

Purpose of the Study:

To analytically determine particle correlations and distributions in a dynamic harmonic trap.
To characterize the extreme value statistics (EVS) of particle positions in the stationary state.
To explore the universality of the EVS scaling function across dimensions and particle ranks.

Main Methods:

Exact computation of the joint probability distribution for particle positions.
Analytical derivation of physical observables, including EVS.
Comparison of analytical predictions with numerical simulations.

Main Results:

Emergence of strong particle correlations solely from switching trap dynamics.
Identification of a nontrivial, tunable, and universal scaling function for EVS in the large N limit.
Demonstration of universality for the kth rightmost particle and in d-dimensions.

Conclusions:

The dynamics of a harmonic trap can induce significant correlations in noninteracting particle systems.
The derived EVS scaling function provides a universal description for extreme particle positions.
Analytical findings are robustly supported by numerical simulations across various dimensions.