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 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 with . 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.
Cite
@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