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The Brownian motion of a particle in a harmonic potential, which is simultaneously exposed either to a linear shear flow or to a plane Poiseuille flow is investigated. In the shear plane of both flows the probability distribution of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-04-22 Lukas Holzer , Jochen Bammert , Roland Rzehak , Walter Zimmermann

We experimentally study a gas of $N = 8$ one-dimensional Brownian particles, each confined in a harmonic trap with identical stiffness. The stiffness switches simultaneously between two values at random Poissonian times. This collective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-12 Marco Biroli , Sergio Ciliberto , Manas Kulkarni , Satya N. Majumdar , Artyom Petrosyan , Gregory Schehr

Consider a system of infinitely many Brownian particles on the real line. At any moment, these particles can be ranked from the bottom upward. Each particle moves as a Brownian motion with drift and diffusion coefficients depending on its…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Andrey Sarantsev

We study an interacting system of competing particles on the real line. Two populations of positive and negative particles evolve according to branching Brownian motion. When opposing particles meet, their charges neutralize and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Daniel Ahlberg , Omer Angel , Brett Kolesnik

We present a study on the dynamics of a system consisting of a pair of hardcore particles diffusing with different rates. We solved the drift-diffusion equation for this model in the case when one particle, labeled F, drifts and diffuses…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-14 S. L. Narasimhan , A. Baumgaertner

With the appropriate choice of parameters and sufficient cooling, charged particles in a circular accelerator are believed to undergo a transition to a highly-ordered crystalline state. The simplest possible crystalline configuration is a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Andreas Kabel

We consider the dynamics of a periodic chain of N coupled overdamped particles under the influence of noise, in the limit of large N. Each particle is subjected to a bistable local potential, to a linear coupling with its nearest…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-16 Nils Berglund , Bastien Fernandez , Barbara Gentz

We develop a kinetic theory of Brownian particles with long and short range interactions. We consider both overdamped and inertial models. In the overdamped limit, the evolution of the spatial density is governed by the generalized mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We study the dynamics of the passage of a stiff chain through a pore into a cell containing particles that bind reversibly to it. Using Brownian Molecular Dynamics simulations we investigate the mean-first-passage time as a function of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Roya Zandi , David Reguera , Joseph Rudnick , William M. Gelbart

We consider a finite or countable collection of one-dimensional Brownian particles whose dynamics at any point in time is determined by their rank in the entire particle system. Using Transportation Cost Inequalities for stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Soumik Pal , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

We numerically investigate the transport of a suspended overdamped Brownian particle which is driven through a two-dimensional rectangular array of circular obstacles with finite radius. Two limiting cases are considered in detail, namely,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-01-06 P. K. Ghosh , P. Hanggi , F. Marchesoni , S. Martens , F. Nori , L. Schimansky-Geier , G. Schmid

This work is a numerical experiment of stochastic motion of conservative Hamiltonian system or weakly damped Brownian particles. The objective is to prove the existence of path probability and to compute its values. By observing a large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-09 Lin Tongling , Pujos Cyril , Ou Congjie , Bi Wenping , Calvayrac Florent , Wang Qiuping A

Cyclic transitions between active and passive states are central to many natural and synthetic systems, ranging from light-driven active particles to animal migrations. Here, we investigate a minimal model of self-propelled Brownian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-28 Ye Zhang , Duanduan Wan

We study the joint asymptotic behavior of spacings between particles at the edge of multilevel Dyson Brownian motions, when the number of levels tends to infinity. Despite the global interactions between particles in multilevel Dyson…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Vadim Gorin , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

Self-propelled active matter can exhibit vastly different behavior than systems with purely Brownian motion. In Eur. Phys. J. E 40, 23 (2017), Zeitz, Wolf, and Stark compared an active matter particle with a Brownian particle moving in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-06 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Experimental realizations of self-propelled colloidal Janus particles exploit the conversion of free energy into directed motion. One route are phoretic mechanisms that can be modeled schematically as the interconversion of two chemical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Thomas Speck

Active particles may happen to be confined in channels so narrow that they cannot overtake each other (Single File conditions). This interesting situation reveals nontrivial physical features as a consequence of the strong inter-particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Emanuele Locatelli , Fulvio Baldovin , Enzo Orlandini , Matteo Pierno

We report an approach to obtain effective pair potentials which describe the structure of two-dimensional systems of active Brownian particles. The pair potential is found by an inverse method, which matches the radial distribution function…

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of spherical active Brownian particles in three spatial dimensions that interact via a pair potential. The investigation is based on a predictive local field theory that is derived by a rigorous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-19 Jens Bickmann , Raphael Wittkowski

A time-delayed response of individual living organisms to information exchanged within flocks or swarms leads to the emergence of complex collective behaviors. A recent experimental setup by (Khadka et al 2018 Nat. Commun. 9 3864),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-30 Daniel Geiss , Klaus Kroy , Viktor Holubec