English

Field Theory of free Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Particles

Statistical Mechanics 2021-06-09 v2 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

We derive a Doi-Peliti field theory for free active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles, or, equivalently, free inertial Brownian particles, and present a way to diagonalise the Gaussian part of the action and calculate the propagator. Unlike previous course-grained approaches this formulation correctly tracks particle identity and yet can easily be expanded to include potentials and arbitrary reactions.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2101.07139,
  title  = {Field Theory of free Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Particles},
  author = {Marius Bothe and Gunnar Pruessner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.07139},
  year   = {2021}
}