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We present a swarm model of Brownian particles with harmonic interactions, where the individuals undergo canonical active Brownian motion, i.e. each Brownian particle can convert internal energy to mechanical energy of motion. We assume the…

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We introduce and study a model in one dimension of $N$ run-and-tumble particles (RTP) which repel each other logarithmically in the presence of an external quadratic potential. This is an "active'' version of the well-known Dyson Brownian…

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Active particle systems are a class of non-equilibrium systems composed of self-propelled Brownian particles; through interactions between particles within the system, a variety of intriguing collective behaviors can emerge. Based on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-25 Sihang Guo , Guangyu Yang , Guoqing Meng , Yingying Wang , Junxing Pan , Jinjun Zhang

We derive a model that describes the motion of a Brownian particle in a system which is dominated by gravitational forces. An example of such a system is a massive black hole immersed in a cluster of stars. We compute the dispersion in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pinaki Chatterjee , Lars Hernquist , Abraham Loeb

The energy partitioning during activation and relaxation events under steady-state conditions for a Brownian particle driven by multiple thermal reservoirs of different local temperatures is investigated. Specifically, we apply the…

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While active matter physics has traditionally focused on particles with overdamped dynamics, recent years have seen an increase of experimental and theoretical work on active systems with inertia. This also leads to an increased need for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-13 Michael te Vrugt

Brownian motion of a particle with an arbitrary shape is investigated theoretically. Analytical expressions for the time-dependent cross-correlations of the Brownian translational and rotational displacements are derived from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-13 Bodan Cichocki , Maria L. Ekiel-Jezewska , Eligiusz Wajnryb

We study a generalized geometric Brownian motion framework that incorporates both entries of new units and exit mechanisms for the current population, extending earlier stochastic resetting models where these rates are treated as identical.…

General Economics · Economics 2026-05-20 Suvam Pal , Viktor Stojkoski , Arnab Pal , Trifce Sandev

We present a detailed study of the transport and energetics of a Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential in the presence of an adiabatic external periodic drive. The particle is considered to move in a medium with periodic space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Debasis Dan , Mangal C. Mahato , A. M. Jayannavar

We study the phase behavior of polar Active Brownian Particles moving in two-spatial dimensions and interacting through volume exclusion and velocity alignment. We combine particle-based simulations of the microscopic model with a simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-26 Elena Sese-Sansa , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Demian Levis

We study a model of Brownian particles which are pumped with energy by means of a non-linear friction function, for which different types are discussed. A suitable expression for a non-linear, velocity-dependent friction function is derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Udo Erdmann , Werner Ebeling , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Frank Schweitzer

Tracking experiments in dense biological tissues reveal a diversity of sources f or local energy injection at the cell scale. The effect of cell motility has been largely studied, but much less is known abo ut the effect of the observed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-29 Elsen Tjhung , Ludovic Berthier

By now active Brownian motion is a well-established model to describe the motion of mesoscopic self-propelled particles in a Newtonian fluid. On the basis of the generalized Langevin equation, we present an analytic framework for active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-13 Alexander R. Sprenger , Christian Bair , Hartmut Löwen

We study the one-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle inside a confinement described by two reactive boundaries which can partially reflect or absorb the particle. Understanding the effects of such boundaries is important in physics,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-30 Arnab Pal , Isaac Pérez Castillo , Anupam Kundu

In the present work we have studied collectives of active disks with an energy depot, moving in the two-dimensional plane and interacting via excluded volume. The energy depot accounts for the extraction of energy taking place at the level…

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Individual movements of a rod-like self-propelled particle on a flat substrate are quantified. Biological systems that fit into this description may be the Gram-negative delta-proteobacterium Myxococcus xanthus, Gram-negative bacterium…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-05-03 Gulmammad Mammadov

We study the driven Brownian motion of hard rods in a one-dimensional cosine potential with an amplitude large compared to the thermal energy. In a closed system, we find surprising features of the steady-state current in dependence of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-24 Dominik Lips , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass

Active matter systems under confinement display persistent surface motion and a strong boundary affinity. However, despite extensive studies of their positional dynamics, much less attention has been given to the corresponding orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-21 Elsa Baby , Manoj Gopalakrishnan , Vishwas V. Vasisht

The transport of interacting Brownian particles in a periodic asymmetric (ratchet) substrate is studied numerically. In a zero-temperature regime, the system behaves as a reversible step motor, undergoing multiple sign reversals of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-31 Rogério M. da Silva , Clécio C. de Souza Silva , Sérgio Coutinho

We study a particle system with hopping (random walk) dynamics on the integer lattice $\mathbb Z^d$. The particles can exist in two states, active or inactive (sleeping); only the former can hop. The dynamics conserves the number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-22 Ronald Dickman , Leonardo T. Rolla , Vladas Sidoravicius