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In the last decade, the study of pressure in active matter has attracted growing attention due to its fundamental relevance to nonequilibrium statistical physics. Active matter systems are composed of particles that consume energy to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-14 Guo Yu , Ruiyao Li , Fukang Li , Jiayu Zhang , Xiyue Li , Zequ Chen , Joscha Mecke , Yongxiang Gao

We analyse a continuous-time random walk model with stochastic reversals of direction. There is no external potential but the reorientation mechanism generates a non-zero current from asymmetry in the forward and backward waiting-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-27 Venkata D. Pamulaparthy , Rosemary J. Harris

We obtain an exact solution for the motion of a particle driven by a spring in a Brownian random-force landscape, the Alessandro-Beatrice-Bertotti-Montorsi (ABBM) model. Many experiments on quasi-static driving of elastic interfaces…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-05-18 Alexander Dobrinevski , Pierre Le Doussal , Kay Jörg Wiese

We study by simulation a mixture of active (run-and-tumble) and passive (Brownian) particles with repulsive exclusion interactions in one dimension, subject to a ratchet (smoothed sawtooth) potential. Such a potential is known to rectify…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-27 Jean-François Derivaux , Robert L. Jack , Michael E. Cates

The noise-flatness-induced hypersensitive transport of overdamped Brownian particles in a tilted ratchet system driven by multiplicative nonequilibrium three-level Markovian noise and additive white noise is considered. At low temperatures…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Romi Mankin , Astrid Haljas , Risto Tammelo , Dmitri Martila

We derive a mode-coupling theory (MCT) to describe the dynamics of tracer particles in dense systems of active Brownian particles (ABPs) in two spatial dimensions. The ABP undergo translational and rotational Brownian dynamics, and are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-03 Julian Reichert , Suvendu Mandal , Thomas Voigtmann

We investigate the dynamics of quantum particles in a ratchet potential subject to an ac force field. We develop a perturbative approach for weak ratchet potentials and force fields. Within this approach, we obtain an analytic description…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefan Scheidl , Valerii M. Vinokur

We consider the motion of a overdamped Brownian particle in periodic asymmetric potential with space dependent friction coefficient. In the presence of external time periodic forcing, the system shows multiple current reversals on varying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar , Mangal C. Mahato

Protein translocation in cells has been modelled by \emph{Brownian ratchets}. In such models, the protein diffuses through a nanopore. On one side of the pore, ratcheting molecules bind to the protein and hinder it to diffuse out of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-07 Andrej Depperschmidt , Peter Pfaffelhuber

Properties of transport of molecular motors are investigated. A simplified model based on the concept of Brownian ratchets is applied. We analyze a stochastic equation of motion by means of numerical methods. The transport is systematically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-07 Lukasz Machura , Marcin Kostur , Jerzy Luczka

We study a Brownian motor, based on cold atoms in optical lattices, where atomic motion can be induced in a controlled manner in an arbitrary direction, by rectification of isotropic random fluctuations. In contrast with ratchet mechanisms,…

Quantum Brownian motion in ratchet potentials is investigated by means of an approach based on a duality relation. This relation links the long-time dynamics in a tilted ratchet potential in the presence of dissipation with the one in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-13 J. Peguiron , M. Grifoni

It is well known that path probabilities of Brownian motion correspond to the equilibrium configurational probabilities of flexible Gaussian polymers, while those of active Brownian motion correspond to in-extensible semiflexible polymers.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-14 Amir Shee , Abhishek Dhar , Debasish Chaudhuri

We propose a new overarching model for self-propelled particles that flexibly generates a full family of "descendants". The general dynamics introduced in this paper, which we denote as "parental" active model (PAM), unifies two special…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Caprini , Alexander Ralf Sprenger , Hartmut Löwen , René Wittmann

We study the flashing ratchet model of a Brownian motor, which consists in cyclical switching between the Fokker-Planck equation with an asymmetric ratchet-like potential and the pure diffusion equation. We show that the motor really…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-13 Dmitry Vorotnikov

We present an exact analytical study of an Active Brownian Particle (ABP) subject to both position and orientation stochastic resetting in a two-dimensional harmonic trap. Utilizing a Fokker-Planck-based renewal approach, we derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-21 Amir Shee

A molecular motor is made of either a single macromolecule or a macromolecular complex. Just like their macroscopic counterparts, molecular motors "transduce" input energy into mechanical work. All the nano-motors considered here operate…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 Debashish Chowdhury

It is well-known that Brownian ratchets can exhibit current reversals, wherein the sign of the current switches as a function of the driving frequency. We introduce a spatial discretization of such a two-dimensional Brownian ratchet to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-07 Nils E. Strand , Rueih-Sheng Fu , Todd R. Gingrich

The collective properties of a binary mixture of A- and B-type self-steering particles endowed with visual perception are studied by computer simulations. Active Brownian particles are employed with an additional steering mechanism, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-29 Rajendra Singh Negi , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

We develop a systematic framework for the model reduction of multivariate geometric Brownian motions (GBMs), a fundamental class of stochastic processes with broad applications in mathematical finance, population biology, and statistical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 C. Chen , M. Colangeli , M. H. Duong , M. Serva