Publications
General statistical physics
A. Dechant, E. Lutz, D. A. Kessler and E. Barkai, Fluctuations of Time Averages for Langevin Dynamics in a Binding Force Field, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 240603 (2011)
A. Dechant, Estimating the diffusion coefficient of trapped particles, EPL 125, 20010 (2019)
A. Dechant, F. Kindermann, A. Widera and E. Lutz, Continuous-time random walk for a particle in a periodic potential, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 070602 (2019)
Anomalous diffusion and 1/f noise
A. Dechant, E. Lutz, D. A. Kessler and E. Barkai, Solution of the Fokker-Planck Equation with a Logarithmic Potential, J. Stat. Phys. 145, 1524 (2011)
A. Dechant, E. Lutz, D. A. Kessler and E. Barkai, Superaging correlation function and ergodicity breaking for Brownian motion in logarithmic potentials, Phys. Rev. E 85, 051124 (2012)
A. Dechant and E. Lutz, Connecting active and passive microrheology in living cells (2013)
A. Dechant, E. Lutz, D. A. Kessler and E. Barkai, Scaling Green-Kubo Relation and Application to Three Aging Systems, Phys. Rev. X 4, 011022 (2014)
A. Dechant and E. Lutz, Wiener-Khinchin Theorem for Nonstationary Scale-Invariant Processes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 080603 (2015)
N. Leibovich, A. Dechant, E. Lutz and E. Barkai, Aging Wiener-Khinchin Theorem and critical exponents of 1/f noise, Phys. Rev. E 84, 052130 (2016)
Optical lattices
A. Dechant and E. Lutz, Anomalous Spatial Diffusion and Multifractality in Optical Lattices, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230601 (2012)
P. C. Holz, A. Dechant and E. Lutz, Infinite density for cold atoms in shallow optical lattices, Europhys. Lett. 109, 23001 (2015)
A. Dechant, D. A. Kessler and E. Barkai, Deviations from Boltzmann-Gibbs equilibrium in confined optical lattices, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 173006 (2015)
A. Dechant, S. T. Shafier, D. A. Kessler and E. Barkai, Heavy-tailed phase-space distributions beyond Boltzmann-Gibbs: Confined laser-cooled atoms in a nonthermal state, Phys. Rev. E 94, 022151 (2016)
F. Kindermann, A. Dechant, M. Hohmann, T. Lausch, D. Mayer, F. Schmidt, E. Lutz and A. Widera, Nonergodic Diffusion of Single Atoms in a Periodic Potential, Nature Physics 13, 137 (2017)
Heat engines and stochastic thermodynamics
A. Dechant, N. Kiesel and E. Lutz, An all-optical nanomechanical heat engine, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 Editor's Suggestion, 183602 (2015)
A. Dechant, A. Baule and S.-i. Sasa, Gaussian white noise as a resource for work extraction, Phys. Rev. E 95, 032132 (2017)
A. Dechant, N. Kiesel and E. Lutz, Underdamped stochastic heat engine at maximum efficiency, EPL 119 Editor's Choice, 50003 (2017)
D. Arold, A. Dechant and E. Lutz, Heat leakage in overdamped harmonic systems, Phys. Rev. E 97, 022131 (2018)
Thermodynamic inequalities and information theory
A. Dechant and S.-i. Sasa, Current fluctuations and transport efficiency for general Langevin systems, J. Stat. Mech. 2018, 063209 (2018)
A. Dechant and S.-i. Sasa, Entropic bounds on currents in Langevin systems, Phys. Rev. E 97 Editor's Suggestion, 062101 (2018)
A. Dechant, Multidimensional thermodynamic uncertainty relations, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 52 035001 (2018) (Best paper award 2020)
A. Dechant and S.-i. Sasa, Fluctuation-response inequality out of equilibrium, PNAS 117 6430 (2020)
S. Ito and A. Dechant, Stochastic time-evolution, information geometry and the Cramer-Rao bound, Phys. Rev. X 10 021056 (2020)
S. Otsubo, S. Ito, A. Dechant, and T. Sagawa, Estimating entropy production by machine learning of short-time fluctuating currents, Phys. Rev. E 101 062106 (2020)
A. Dechant and Y. Sakurai, Thermodynamic interpretation of Wasserstein distance (2019)
A. Dechant and S.-i. Sasa, Continuous time-reversal and equality in the thermodynamic uncertainty relation, Phys. Rev. Research 3 L042012 (2021)
A. Dechant and S.-i. Sasa, Improving thermodynamic bounds using correlations, Phys. Rev. X 11 041061 (2021)
A. Dechant, S.-i. Sasa and S. Ito, Geometric decomposition of entropy production in out-of-equilibrium systems (2021)
A. Dechant, Minimum entropy production, detailed balance and Wasserstein distance for continuous-time Markov jump processes, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 55 094001 (2022)
Graphene and carbon structures
A. Dechant, T. Ohto, Y. Ito, M. V. Makarova, Y. Kawabe, T. Agari, H. Kumai, Y. Takahasi, H. Naito and M. Kotani, Geometric model of 3D curved graphene with chemical dopants, Carbon 182 223 (2021)
PhD Thesis
A. Dechant, Nonequilibrium dynamics in living cells and scale-invariant superdiffusive processes (PhD thesis, 2014)