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Dynamics of active run and tumble and passive particles in binary mixture

Biological Physics 2021-12-28 v1 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

We study a binary mixture of disk-shaped {\it active run and tumble } particles (ARNPs{ARNPs}) and passive particles on a two-dimensional substrate. Both types of particles are athermal. The particles interact through the soft repulsive potential. The activity of ARNPsARNPs is controlled by tuning their tumbling rate. The system is studied for various sizes of passive particles keeping size of ARNPsARNPs fixed. Hence the variables are, size ratio (S) of passive particles and ARNPsARNPs, and activity of ARNPsARNPs is vv. The characterstics dynamics of both ARNPsARNPs and passive particles show a crossover from early time ballistic to later time diffusive. Furthermore, we observed that passive particles dynamics changes from diffusive to subdiffusive with respect to their size. Moreover, late time effective diffusivity DeffD_{eff} of passive particles decreases with increasing their size as in the corresponding equilibrium Stokes systems. We calculated the effective temperatures, using DeffD_{eff}, Ta,eff(Δ)T_{a,eff}(\Delta) and also using speed distribution Ta,eff(v)T_{a,eff}(v) and compared them. The both Ta,eff(Δ)T_{a,eff}(\Delta) and Ta,eff(v)T_{a,eff}(v) increases linearly with activity and are in agreement with each other. Hence we can say that an effective equilibrium can be establish in such binary mixture. Our study can be useful to study the various biological systems like; dynamics of passive organels in cytoplasm, colloids etc.

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@article{arxiv.2112.13015,
  title  = {Dynamics of active run and tumble and passive particles in binary mixture},
  author = {Vivek Semwal and Jay Prakash and Shradha Mishra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.13015},
  year   = {2021}
}
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