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We consider active Brownian particles that intermittently switch between active and inactive states. Such behavior is ubiquitous at all scales, from bacteria to animals and in artificial active systems. We derive exact expressions for key…

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We study the motion of Brownian particle in modulated media in the strong damping limit by using {\em toy model}, with special emphasis on the transition from localise to diffusive behavior. By using model potential we have seen the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Himadri S. Samanta

We consider the overdamped motion of Brownian particles, interacting via particle exclusion, in an external potential that varies with time and space. We show that periodic potentials that maintain specific position-dependent phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-09 Debasish Chaudhuri , Abhishek Dhar

The relationship between anomalous superdiffusive behavior and particle trapping probability is analyzed on a rocking ratchet potential with spatially correlated weak disorder. The trapping probability density is shown, analytically and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-18 D. G. Zarlenga , G. L. Frontini , Fereydoon Family , C. M. Arizmendi

Brownian motion of an array of harmonically coupled particles subject to a periodic substrate potential and driven by an external bias is investigated. In the linear response limit (small bias), the coupling between particles may enhance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Zhigang Zheng , Bambi Hu , Gang Hu

Transport of rodlike particles in confinement environments of macromolecular networks plays crucial roles in many important biological processes and technological applications. The relevant understanding has been limited to thin rods with…

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

We present a model of anomalous diffusion consisting of an ensemble of particles undergoing homogeneous Brownian motion except for confinement by randomly placed reflecting boundaries. For power-law distributed compartment sizes, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-09 Gerald John Lapeyre

The transport of a walker in rocking feedback-controlled ratchets are investigated. The walker consists of two coupled "feet" that allow the interchange of the order of the particles while the walker moves. In the underdamped case, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-09 Tianfu Gao , Zhigang Zheng , Jincan Chen

Brownian motion near soft surfaces is a situation widely encountered in nanoscale and biological physics. However, a complete theoretical description is lacking to date. Here, we theoretically investigate the dynamics of a two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Yilin Ye , Yacine Amarouchene , Raphaël Sarfati , David S. Dean , Thomas Salez

We consider the collective motion of finite-sized, overdamped Brownian particles (e.g., motor proteins) in a periodic potential. Simulations of our model have revealed a number of novel cooperative transport phenomena, including (i) the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Imre Derenyi , Tamas Vicsek

We analyse the impact of temperature on the diffusion coefficient of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric periodic potential and driven by a symmetric time-periodic force. Recent studies have revealed the low friction regime…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-28 I. G. Marchenko , V. Aksenova , I. I. Marchenko , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

Cell migration often exhibits long-range temporal correlations and anomalous diffusion, even in the absence of external guidance cues such as chemical gradients or topographical constraints. These observations raise a fundamental question:…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-25 Gustavo Cornejo-Olea , Lucas Buvinic , Jerome Darbon , Radek Erban , Andrea Ravasio , Anastasios Matzavinos

Quantitatively understanding of the dynamics of an active Brownian particle (ABP) interacting with a viscoelastic polymer environment is a scientific challenge. It is intimately related to several interdisciplinary topics such as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-17 Sungmin Joo , Xavier Durang , O-chul Lee , Jae-Hyung Jeon

In this work, we study the dynamics of a single active Brownian particle, as well as the collective behavior of interacting active Brownian particles, in a fluctuating heterogeneous environment. We employ a variant of the diffusing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 S. M. J. Khadem , N. H. Siboni , S. H. L. Klapp

It is well-known that Brownian ratchets can exhibit current reversals, wherein the sign of the current switches as a function of the driving frequency. We introduce a spatial discretization of such a two-dimensional Brownian ratchet to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-07 Nils E. Strand , Rueih-Sheng Fu , Todd R. Gingrich

We investigate the dynamic behavior of optical vortices, or phase singularities, in random wavefields and demonstrate the direct experimental observation of the anomalous diffusion of optical vortices. The observed subdiffusion of optical…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-15 Jiaxing Gong , Qi Li , Jing Wang

In this work, the ratchet dynamics of Brownian particles driven by an external sinusoidal (harmonic) force is investigated. The gating ratchet effect is observed when another harmonic is used to modulate the spatially symmetric potential in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-24 Luis Dinis , Niurka R. Quintero

Particle transport in complex environments such as the interior of living cells is often (transiently) non-Fickian or anomalous, that is, it deviates from the laws of Brownian motion. Such anomalies may be the result of small-scale…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-15 Cai Dieball , Diego Krapf , Matthias Weiss , Aljaž Godec

We employ renewal processes to characterize the spatiotemporal dynamics of an active Brownian particle under stochastic orientational resetting. By computing the experimentally accessible intermediate scattering function (ISF) and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-14 Yanis Baouche , Thomas Franosch , Matthias Meiners , Christina Kurzthaler