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Microtubules and motor proteins self organize into biologically important assemblies including the mitotic spindle and the centrosomal microtubule array. Outside of cells, microtubule-motor mixtures can form novel active liquid-crystalline…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-20 Tong Gao , Robert Blackwell , Matthew A. Glaser , M. D. Betterton , Michael J. Shelley

A self-propelled artificial microswimmer is often modeled as a ballistic Brownian particle moving with constant speed aligned along one of its axis, but changing direction due to random collisions with the environment. Similarly to thermal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-08 Pulak K. Ghosh , Yunyun Li , Giampiero Marchegiani , Fabio Marchesoni

We measured the overall motion of Brownian particles suspended in water by a self-mixing thin-slice solid-state laser with extreme optical sensitivity. From the demodulated signal of laser intensity fluctuations through self-mixing…

Transport of a Brownian particle moving along the axis of a three-dimensional asymmetric periodic tube is investigated in the presence of asymmetric unbiased forces. The reduction of the coordinates may involve not only the appearance of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bao-quan Ai , Liang-gang Liu

Brownian motion has played important roles in many different fields of science since its origin was first explained by Albert Einstein in 1905. Einstein's theory of Brownian motion, however, is only applicable at long time scales. At short…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-03 Tongcang Li , Mark G. Raizen

We show that Brownian motion is spatially not symmetric for mesoscopic particles embedded in a fluid if the particle is not in thermal equilibrium and its shape is not spherical. In view of applications on molecular motors in biological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Susan Sporer , Christian Goll , Klaus Mecke

The structural and dynamical properties of suspensions of self-propelled Brownian particles of spherical shape are investigated in three spatial dimensions. Our simulations reveal a phase separation into a dilute and a dense phase, above a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-12 Adam Wysocki , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

Control of stochastic systems is a challenging open problem in statistical physics, with potential applications in a wealth of systems from biology to granulates. Unlike most cases investigated so far, we aim here at controlling a genuinely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-09 Marco Baldovin , David Guéry-Odelin , Emmanuel Trizac

We research the transport properties of inertial Brownian particles which move in a symmetric periodic potential and are subjected to both a symmetric, unbiased time-periodic external force and biased Poissonian white shot noise (of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. Spiechowicz , J. Luczka , P. Hanggi

Brownian particles interacting sequentially with distinct temperatures and driving forces at each stroke have been tackled as a reliable alternative for the construction of engine setups. However they can behave very inefficiently depending…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-28 Iago N. Mamede , Angel L. L. Stable , C. E. Fiore

Transport phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and known to be important for various scientific domains. Examples can be found in physics, electrochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, physiology, etc. To obtain new information about diffusive…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Denis S. Grebenkov

This article introduces a novel construction of the two-dimensional fractional Brownian motion (2D fBm) with dependent components. Unlike similar models discussed in the literature, our approach uniquely accommodates the full range of model…

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

Self-propelled particles move along circles rather than along a straight line when their driving force does not coincide with their propagation direction. Examples include confined bacteria and spermatozoa, catalytically driven nanorods,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-08-18 Sven van Teeffelen , Hartmut Löwen

The Brownian motion of a test particle interacting with a quantum scalar field in the presence of a perfectly reflecting boundary is studied in (1 + 1)-dimensional flat spacetime. Particularly, the expressions for dispersions in velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 V. A. De Lorenci , E. S. Moreira , M. M. Silva

The diffusive transport of biased Brownian particles in a two-dimensional symmetric channel is investigated numerically considering both the no-flow and the reflection boundary conditions at the channel boundaries. Here, the geometrical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-10 Narender Khatri , P. S. Burada

We present a scheme for producing tunable active dynamics in a self-propelled robotic device. The robot moves using the differential drive mechanism where two wheels can vary their instantaneous velocities independently. These velocities…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-27 Somnath Paramanick , Arnab Pal , Harsh Soni , Nitin Kumar

Active Brownian motion is the complex motion of active Brownian particles. They are active in the sense that they can transform their internal energy into energy of motion and thus create complex motion patterns. Theories of active Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-04 Alexander Gluck , Helmuth Huffel , Sasa Ilijic

We study the diffusion of Brownian particles on the surface of a sphere and compute the distribution of solid angles enclosed by the diffusing particles. This function describes the distribution of geometric phases in two state quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. M. G. Krishna , Joseph Samuel , Supurna Sinha

By studying a system of Brownian particles, interacting only through a local social-like force (velocity alignment), we show that self-propulsion is not a necessary feature for the flocking transition to take place as long as underdamped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-31 Victor Dossetti , Francisco J. Sevilla