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We investigate the dynamics of an inertial chiral active Brownian particle in the presence of a harmonic confinement. Through numerical simulation, we observe that when the harmonic frequency becomes comparable to the chiral frequency, the…

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We analyze the mean squared displacement of a Brownian particle in a medium with a spatially varying local diffusivity which is assumed to be periodic. When the system is asymptotically diffusive the mean squared displacement,…

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Many active particles are embedded in environments that exhibit viscoelastic properties. An important class of such media lacks a single characteristic relaxation timescale when subjected to a time-dependent stress. Rather, the stress…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 David Santiago Quevedo , Monica Conte , Marjolein Dijkstra , Cristiane Morais Smith

In this paper we consider the long time asymptotics of a linear version of the Smoluchowski equation which describes the evolution of a tagged particle moving at constant speed in a random distribution of fixed particles. The volumes $v$ of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Barbara Niethammer , Alessia Nota , Sebastian Throm , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We study the Brownian motion of a classical particle in one-dimensional inhomogeneous environments where the transition probabilities follow quasiperiodic or aperiodic distributions. Exploiting an exact correspondence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Igloi , L. Turban , H. Rieger

We have studied the persistence probability $p(t)$ of an active Brownian particle with shape asymmetry in two dimensions. The persistence probability is defined as the the probability of a stochastic variable that has not changed it's sign…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-12 Anirban Ghosh , Sudipta Mandal , Dipanjan Chakraborty

The strong friction regime at low temperatures is analyzed systematically starting from the formally exact path integral expression for the reduced dynamics. This quantum Smoluchowski regime allows for a type of semiclassical treatment in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-03 Stefan A. Maier , Joachim Ankerhold

We study random transitions between two metastable states that appear below a critical temperature in a one dimensional self-gravitating Brownian gas with a modified Poisson equation experiencing a second order phase transition from a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-23 P. H. Chavanis , L. Delfini

The propagation of light in a scattering medium is described as the motion of a special kind of a Brownian particle on which the fluctuating forces act only perpendicular to its velocity. This enforces strictly and dynamically the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , N. Kumar

The ``Brownian bees" model describes an ensemble of $N$ independent branching Brownian particles. When a particle branches into two particles, the particle farthest from the origin is eliminated so as to keep a constant number of particles.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-29 Maor Siboni , Pavel Sasorov , Baruch Meerson

We study the Brownian motion of ellipsoidal particles lying on an agitated granular bath composed of magnetic particles. We quantify the mobility of different floating ellipsoidal particles using the mean square displacement and the mean…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-12 C. Tapia-Ignacio , R. E. Moctezuma , F. Donado , Eric R. Weeks

We study the asymptotic behavior of estimators of a two-valued, discontinuous diffusion coefficient in a Stochastic Differential Equation, called an Oscillating Brownian Motion. Using the relation of the latter process with the Skew…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Antoine Lejay , Paolo Pigato

We develop a theory of fluctuations for Brownian systems with weak long-range interactions. For these systems, there exists a critical point separating a homogeneous phase from an inhomogeneous phase. Starting from the stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We consider a random model of diffusion and coagulation. A large number of small particles are randomly scattered at an initial time. Each particle has some integer mass and moves in a Brownian motion whose diffusion rate is determined by…

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We consider the problem of leakage or effusion of an ensemble of independent stochastic processes from a region where they are initially randomly distributed. The case of Brownian motion, initially confined to the left half line with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-29 David S. Dean , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

Active particles self-propel themselves with a stochastically evolving velocity, generating a persistent motion leading to a non-diffusive behavior of the position distribution. Nevertheless, an effective diffusive behavior emerges at times…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Ion Santra , Urna Basu , Sanjib Sabhapandit

Transport of cold atoms in shallow optical lattices is characterized by slow, nonstationary momentum relaxation. We here develop a projector operator method able to derive in this case a generalized Smoluchowski equation for the position…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Dechant , E. Lutz

We outline a reduction scheme for a class of Brownian dynamics which leads to meaningful corrections to the Smoluchowski equation in the overdamped regime. The mobility coefficient of the reduced dynamics is obtained by exploiting the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-19 Matteo Colangeli , Adrian Muntean

We consider non-interacting particles (or lions) performing one-dimensional random walks or L\'evy flights (with L\'evy index $1 < \mu \leq 2$) in the presence of a constant drift $c$. Initially these random walkers are uniformly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-27 Satya N. Majumdar , Philippe Mounaix , Gregory Schehr

We describe a two-dimensional model for active particles whose self-propulsion speed is not fixed, but varies in time, and whose motion is subject to both translational and rotational diffusion. In the conventional treatment of active…

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