MPIDS Colloquium: Out of equilibrium: Statistical mechanics with various ways to violate detailed balance and fluctuation-dissipation relation

This talk will start from the simplest Langevin equation for a single particle and consider what hap-pens if fluctuation-dissipation relation is violated. While we are used to the idea of energy barriers (Boltzmann limit), in this context we will face force barriers (Sisyphus limit), leading to rectification of noise, repulsive depletion, etc. Similarly, interaction with different thermostats can also cause phase separation, especially in polymers.