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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 tt can be expressed as a perturbative series in (γt)1(\gamma t)^{-1}, where γ1\gamma^{-1} 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