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When does an active bath behave as an equilibrium one?

Statistical Mechanics 2024-05-29 v1 Soft Condensed Matter Biological Physics

Abstract

Active baths are characterized by a non-Gaussian velocity distribution and a quadratic dependence with active velocity v0v_0 of the kinetic temperature and diffusion coefficient. While these results hold in over-damped active systems, inertial effects lead to normal velocity distributions, with kinetic temperature and diffusion coefficient increasing as v0α\sim v_0^\alpha with 1<α<21<\alpha<2. Remarkably, the late-time diffusivity and mobility decrease with mass. Moreover, we show that the equilibrium Einstein relation is asymptotically recovered with inertia. In summary, the inertial mass restores an equilibrium-like behavior.

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@article{arxiv.2305.03830,
  title  = {When does an active bath behave as an equilibrium one?},
  author = {Shubhendu Shekhar Khali and Fernando Peruani and Debasish Chaudhuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.03830},
  year   = {2024}
}

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8 pages, 9 figures

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