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We derive the long-time dynamics of a tracer immersed in a one-dimensional active bath. In contrast to previous studies, we find that the damping and noise correlations possess long-time tails with exponents that depend on the tracer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-26 Omer Granek , Yariv Kafri , Julien Tailleur

Non-reciprocal interactions play a key role in shaping transport in active and passive systems, giving rise to striking nonequilibrium behavior. Here, we study the dynamics of a tracer -- active or passive -- embedded in a bath of active or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-08 Subhajit Paul , Debasish Chaudhuri

In this paper, which completes our earlier short publication [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 511 (2000)], we study dynamics of a hard-core tracer particle (TP) performing a biased random walk in an adsorbed monolayer, composed of mobile hard-core…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Benichou , A. M. Cazabat , J. De Coninck , M. Moreau , G. Oshanin

An active bath, made of self-propelling units, is a nonequilibrium medium in which the Einstein relation $D=\mu k_B T$ between the mobility $\mu$ and the diffusivity $D$ of a tracer particle cannot be expected to hold a priori. We consider…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-20 Alexandre Solon , Jordan M. Horowitz

Emergent bath-mediated attraction and condensation arise when multiple particles are simultaneously driven through an equilibrated bath under geometric constraints. While such scenarios are observed in a variety of non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 Asaf Miron , David Mukamel , Harald A. Posch

We study the effect of single biased tracer particle in a bath of other particles performing the random average process (RAP) on an infinite line. We focus on the large time behavior of the mean and the fluctuations of the positions of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 J. Cividini , A. Kundu , S. N. Majumdar , D. Mukamel

We study the dynamics of a single trapped probe surrounded by self-propelled active particles in two dimensions. In the limit of large size separation, we perform an adiabatic elimination of the small active particles to obtain an effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-21 Ashreya Jayaram , Thomas Speck

Understanding particle motion in narrow channels is essential to guide progress in numerous applications, from filtration to vascular transport. Thermal or active fluctuations of channel walls for fluid-filled channels can slow down or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-29 Yating Wang , David S. Dean , Sophie Marbach , Ruben Zakine

We present results for the fluctuations of the displacement of a tracer particle on a planar lattice pulled by a step force in the presence of impenetrable, immobile obstacles. The fluctuations perpendicular to the applied force are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-06 Sebastian Leitmann , Thomas Schwab , Thomas Franosch

We investigate the dynamics of tracer particles in the random average process (RAP), a single-file system in one dimension. In addition to the position, every particle possesses an internal spin variable $\sigma (t)$ that can alternate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-01 Saikat Santra , Prashant Singh , Anupam Kundu

We explore the relaxation dynamics of a tracer in a harmonic trap coupled to a non-equilibrium bath particle in stationary state, finding qualitative differences compared to the well known equilibrium case. These can be attributed to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-16 Ion Santra , Matthias Krüger

A colloidal particle immersed in a bath of bacteria is a typical example of a passive particle in an active bath. To model this, we take an overdamped harmonically trapped particle subjected to a thermal and a non-equilibrium noise arising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-02 Subhasish Chaki , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

We analyze the dynamics of a passive colloidal probe immersed in an active bath using an optical trap to study three physical processes: (1) the non-equilibrium fluctuations transferred to the probe by the active bath, (2) the friction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-22 Hunter Seyforth , Mauricio Gomez , W. Benjamin Rogers , Jennifer L. Ross , Wylie W. Ahmed

We study the dynamics of overdamped Brownian particles interacting through soft pairwise potentials on a comb-like structure. Within the linearized Dean-Kawasaki framework, we characterize the particle density fluctuations by computing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-21 Davide Venturelli , Pierre Illien , Aurélien Grabsch , Olivier Bénichou

We consider one-dimensional systems comprising either active run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) or passive Brownian random walkers. These particles are either noninteracting or have hardcore exclusions. We study the dynamics of a single tracer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-11 Tirthankar Banerjee , Robert L. Jack , Michael E. Cates

The motion of Brownian particles in nonlinear baths, such as, e.g., viscoelastic fluids, is of great interest. We theoretically study a simple model for such bath, where two particles are coupled via a sinusoidal potential. This model,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-13 Rohit Jain , Félix Ginot , Matthias Krüger

Interacting particles diffusing in single-file is a fundamental model of transport in narrow channels where particles cannot bypass each other. An important result has been obtained by Kollmann [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 180602 (2003)] for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Théotim Berlioz , Olivier Bénichou , Aurélien Grabsch

Quantifying the correlations between the position of a tagged tracer and the density of surrounding bath particles is crucial for understanding tracer diffusion in interacting particle systems, and for characterizing the response properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-16 Davide Venturelli , Pierre Illien , Aurélien Grabsch , Olivier Bénichou

We follow the dynamics of an ensemble of interacting self-propelled semi-flexible polymers in contact with a thermal bath. We characterize structure and dynamics of the passive system and as a function of the motor activity. We find that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-14 Davide Loi , Stefano Mossa , Leticia F. Cugliandolo

In microrheology, the local rheological properties such as viscoelasticity of a complex fluid are inferred from the free or forced motion of embedded colloidal probe particles. Theoretical machinery developed for forced-probe microrheology…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-22 Zhiwei Peng , John F. Brady