In this short review, we provide an update of recent developments in Kramers' theory of
reaction rates. After a brief introduction stressing the importance of this theory initially …

Optomechanics, the study of the mechanical interaction of light with matter, has proven to be
a fruitful area of research that has yielded many notable achievements, including the direct …

We experimentally realize cavity cooling of all three translational degrees of motion of a
levitated nanoparticle in vacuum. The particle is trapped by a cavity-independent optical …

Many self-propelled objects are large enough to exhibit inertial effects but still suffer from
environmental fluctuations. The corresponding basic equations of motion are governed by …

Overdamped active Brownian motion of self-propelled particles in a liquid has been fairly
well studied. However, there are a variety of situations in which the overdamped …

We investigate a model for a Stirling-like engine consisting of a passive Brownian particle
confined by a harmonic potential and interacting with a suspension of active Brownian …

We study the dynamics of one-dimensional active particles confined in a double-well
potential, focusing on the escape properties of the system, such as the mean escape time …

We numerically investigate the mean exit time of an inertial active Brownian particle from a
circular cavity with single or multiple exit windows. Our simulation results witness distinct …

Active matter represents a broad class of systems that evolve far from equilibrium due to the
local injection of energy. Like their passive analogs, transformations between distinct …

Finding the mean time it takes for a particle to escape from a metastable state due to thermal
fluctuations is a fundamental problem in physics, chemistry, and biology. Here, we consider …