Velocity and diffusion constant of an active particle in a one dimensional force field
Statistical Mechanics
2020-06-17 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We consider a run an tumble particle with two velocity states , in an inhomogeneous force field in one dimension. We obtain exact formulae for its velocity and diffusion constant for arbitrary periodic of period . They involve the "active potential" which allows to define a global bias. Upon varying parameters, such as an external force , the dynamics undergoes transitions from non-ergodic trapped states, to various moving states, some with non analyticities in the versus curve. A random landscape in the presence of a bias leads, for large , to anomalous diffusion , , or to a phase with a finite velocity that we calculate.
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@article{arxiv.2003.08155,
title = {Velocity and diffusion constant of an active particle in a one dimensional force field},
author = {Pierre Le Doussal and Satya N. Majumdar and Gregory Schehr},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08155},
year = {2020}
}
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7 + 15 pages, 8 figures