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We study a system of self-propelled disks that perform run-and-tumble motion, where particles can adopt more than one internal state. One of those internal states can be transmitted to another particle if the particle carrying this state…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Fernando Peruani , Gustavo Sibona

Recently we studied $N$ run-and-tumble particles in one dimension - which switch with rate $\gamma$ between driving velocities $\pm v_0$ - interacting via the long range 1D Coulomb potential (also called rank interaction), both in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-14 Léo Touzo , Pierre Le Doussal

We numerically study the dynamics of run-and-tumble particles confined in two chambers connected by thin channels. Two dominant dynamical behaviors emerge: (i) an oscillatory pumping state, in which particles periodically fill the two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-04 M. Paoluzzi , R. Di Leonardo , L. Angelani

We analyze a simplistic model for run-and-tumble dynamics, motivated by observations of complex spatio-temporal patterns in colonies of myxobacteria. In our model, agents run with fixed speed either left or right, and agents turn with a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-12-04 Patrick Flynn , Quinton Neville , Arnd Scheel

The bacterium E.Coli swims in a zig-zag manner, in a series of straight runs and tumbles occurring alternately, with the run-durations dependent on the local spatial gradient of chemo-attractants/repellants. This enables the organism to…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2008-12-31 Melissa Reneaux , Manoj Gopalakrishnan

E. coli bacteria swim following a run and tumble pattern. In the run state all flagella join in a single helical bundle that propels the cell body along approximately straight paths. When one or more flagellar motors reverse direction the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-01 S. Bianchi , F. Saglimbeni , A. Lepore , R. Di Leonardo

Microbiology is the science of microbes, particularly bacteria. Many bacteria are motile: they are capable of self-propulsion. Among these, a significant class execute so-called run-and-tumble motion: they follow a fairly straight path for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-06 M. E. Cates

For spatially one-dimensional run-and-tumble dynamics with mass conservation we develop a coarse phase diagram, that discriminates between global decay to equidistributed constant states, existence of spatially non-trivial waves, and finite…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-09-04 Kyungkeun Kang , Arnd Scheel , Angela Stevens

During the past century, biologists and mathematicians investigated two mechanisms underlying bacteria motion: the run phase during which bacteria move in straight lines and the tumble phase in which they change their orientation. When…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Alain Blaustein

We study the dynamics of the separation (gap) between a pair of interacting run and tumble particles (RTPs) moving in one dimension in the presence of additional thermal noise. On a ring geometry the distribution of the gap approaches a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Arghya Das , Abhishek Dhar , Anupam Kundu

The field of active matter explores the behaviors of self propelled agents out of equilibrium, with active suspensions, such as swimming bacteria in solutions, serving as impactful models. These systems exhibit spatio-temporal patterns akin…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-26 Pratikshya Jena , Shradha Mishra

Run-and-tumble is a basic model of persistent motion and a motility strategy widespread in micro-organisms and individual cells. In many natural settings, movement occurs in the presence of confinement. While accumulation at the surface has…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-12 T. Pietrangeli , C. Ybert , C. Cottin-Bizonne , F. Detcheverry

In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of an $N$ particles system evolving according the gradient flow of an energy functional. The particle system is a consistent approximation of the Lagrangian formulation of a one parameter family of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-01-31 V. Calvez , L. Corrias

Run-and-Tumble particles, mimicking the behaviour of microorganisms like E. coli, are a paradigmatic model of active matter. Due to self-propulsion, their random and undirected motion can be rectified in a ratchet potential. Using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-11 Zigan Zhen , Gunnar Pruessner

In this paper we use an individual-based model and its associated kinetic equation to study the generation of long jumps in the motion of E. coli. These models relate the run-and-tumble process to the intracellular reaction where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Weiran Sun , Min Tang , Xiaoru Xue

The properties of a particle diffusing on a one-dimensional lattice where at each site a random barrier and a random trap act simultaneously on the particle are investigated by numerical and analytical techniques. The combined effect of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Achille Giacometti , K. P. N. Murthy

The effects of quenched disorder on a single and many active run-and-tumble particles is studied in one dimension. For a single particle, we consider both the steady-state distribution and the particle's dynamics subject to disorder in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-27 Ydan Ben Dor , Eric Woillez , Yariv Kafri , Mehran Kardar , Alexandre P Solon

We study the long-time behaviour of a run and tumble model which is a kinetic-transport equation describing bacterial movement under the effect of a chemical stimulus. The experiments suggest that the non-uniform tumbling kernels are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Josephine Evans , Havva Yoldaş

We model and study the patterns created through the interaction of collectively moving self-propelled particles (SPPs) and elastically tethered obstacles. Simulations of an individual-based model reveal at least three distinct large-scale…

We discuss a simple model of particles hopping in one dimension with attractive interactions. Taking a hydrodynamic limit in which the interaction strength increases with the system size, we observe the formation of multiple clusters of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-05 Matthew Burman , Daniel Carpenter , Robert L. Jack