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We investigate the influence of external forces on the collective dynamics of interacting active Brownian particles in two as well as three spatial dimensions. Via explicit coarse graining, we derive predictive models that are applicable…

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Autonomous active Brownian ratchets rectify active Brownian particle motion solely by means of a spatially modulated but stationary activity, without external forces. We argue that such ratcheting requires at least a two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-24 Constantin Rein , Martin Kolář , Klaus Kroy , Viktor Holubec

We show that directed ratchet transport of a driven overdamped Brownian particle subjected to a spatially periodic and symmetric potential can be reliably controlled by tailoring a biharmonic temporal force, in coherence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Pedro J. Martínez , Ricardo Chacón

Self-propelled particles in anisotropic environments can exhibit a motility that depends on their orientation. This dependence is relevant for a plethora of living organisms but difficult to study in controlled environments. Here, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-27 Alexander R. Sprenger , Christian Scholz , Anton Ldov , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

We study diffusion properties of an inertial Brownian motor moving on a ratchet substrate, i.e. a periodic structure with broken reflection symmetry. The motor is driven by an unbiased time-periodic symmetric force which takes the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-25 Jakub Spiechowicz , Marcin Kostur , Jerzy Łuczka

We present a study of transport of a Brownian particle moving in periodic symmetric potential in the presence of asymmetric unbiased fluctuations. The particle is considered to move in a medium with periodic space dependent friction. By…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bao-Quan Ai , Xian-Ju Wang , Guo-Tao Liu , Hui-Zhang Xie , De-Hua Wen , Wei Chen , Liang-Gang Liu

We investigate the motion of an inert (massive) particle being impinged from below by a particle performing (reflected) Brownian motion. The velocity of the inert particle increases in proportion to the local time of collisions and…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Sayan Banerjee , Krzysztof Burdzy , Mauricio Duarte

We consider model of a complex particle that consists of a rigid shell and a nucleus with spatial asymmetric interaction. The particle's dynamics with the nucleus driven by a periodic excitation is considered. It is shown that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Denisov

Aiming to understand the distribution of fitness levels of individuals in a large population undergoing selection, we study the particle configurations of branching Brownian motion where each particle independently moves as Brownian motion…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Jiaqi Liu , Jason Schweinsberg

We study systems of Brownian particles on the real line, which interact by splitting the local times of collisions among themselves in an asymmetric manner. We prove the strong existence and uniqueness of such processes and identify them…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Ioannis Karatzas , Soumik Pal , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

We propose a stochastic process wherein molecular transport is mediated by asymmetric nucleation of domains on a one-dimensional substrate. Track-driven mechanisms of molecular transport arise in biophysical applications such as Holliday…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amit Lakhanpal , Tom Chou

We consider a branching Brownian motion in which binary fission takes place only when particles are at the origin at a rate \beta > 0 on the local time scale. We obtain results regarding the asymptotic behaviour of the number of particles…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Sergey Bocharov , Simon C. Harris

Brownian computers utilize thermal fluctuations as a resource for computation and hold promise for achieving ultra-low-energy computations. However, the lack of a statistical direction in Brownian motion necessitates the incorporation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sho Nakade , Ferdinand Peper , Kazuki Kanki , Tomio Petrosky

We investigate the dynamics of Brownian particles in internal state- dependent symmetric and periodic potentials. Although no space or time symmetry of the Hamiltonian is broken, we show that directed transport can appear. We demonstrate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

Based on Dynamical Density Functional Theory (DDFT) we investigate a binary mixture of interacting Brownian particles driven over a substrate via a one-dimensional ratchet potential. The particles are modeled as soft spheres where one…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-19 Ken Lichtner , Sabine H. L. Klapp

We consider a model of Branching Brownian Motion in which the usual spatially-homogeneous and catalytic branching at a single point are simultaneously present. We establish the almost sure growth rates of population in certain…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Sergey Bocharov , Li Wang

The stochastic motion of a particle with long-range correlated increments (the moving phase) which is intermittently interrupted by immobilizations (the traping phase) in a disordered medium is considered in the presence of an external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-31 Yingjie Liang , Wei Wang , Ralf Metzler

This note is answering an old questioning about the F\'{e}nyes-Nelson stochastic mechanics. The Brownian nature of the quantum fluctuations, which are associated to this mechanics, is deduced from Feynman's interpretation of the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michel Fliess

We study the long-range asymptotic behavior for an out-of-equilibrium countable one-dimensional system of Brownian particles interacting through their rank-dependent drifts. Focusing on the semi-infinite case, where only the leftmost…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Manuel Cabezas , Amir Dembo , Andrey Sarantsev , Vladas Sidoravicius

Under rapid undercooling, glass forming liquids freeze in an amorphous state that can equilibrate only on enormously long time-scales, This is the characteristic sign of aging, which has been observed in a wide range of systems. Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-01 Karina I Mazzitello , Daniel G Zarlenga , Fereydoon Family , Constancio M Arizmendi