Long time behavior of run-and-tumble particles in two dimensions
Statistical Mechanics
2023-03-24 v3 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We study the long-time asymptotic behavior of the position distribution of a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in two dimensions and show that the distribution at a time can be expressed as a perturbative series in , where is the persistence time of the RTP. We show that the higher order corrections to the leading order Gaussian distribution generically satisfy an inhomogeneous diffusion equation where the source term depends on the previous order solutions. The explicit solution of the inhomogeneous equation requires the position moments, and we develop a recursive formalism to compute the same.
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@article{arxiv.2211.07337,
title = {Long time behavior of run-and-tumble particles in two dimensions},
author = {Ion Santra and Urna Basu and Sanjib Sabhapandit},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.07337},
year = {2023}
}
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15 pages, 2 figures