An Attempt to Understand the Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics of Microbes

Our attempt is to study the behaviour of microbes through the framework of nonequilibrium statistical physics. Microbes can be understood through their activity. Sometimes they are more active sompared to other times. This behaviour can be attributed to their surroundings and how they change. We can also understand the dynamics of a microbe through its interactions with the surroundings. A typical way in which a microbe is understood to behave is a random motion which can be explained by Brownian motion. Since the surroundings affect this behaviour, we have attempted to study as to how the perturbations in the surroundings would affect the microbes. Our attempt is also towards explaining this behaviour of microbes through the Fokker-Planck equation and its perturbations.