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We study the transport properties of a system of active particles moving at constant speed in an heterogeneous two-dimensional space. The spatial heterogeneity is modeled by a random distribution of obstacles, which the active particles…

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The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francisco J. Sevilla , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Trifce Sandev

We consider diffusion in arbitrary spatial dimension d with the addition of a resetting process wherein the diffusive particle stochastically resets to a fixed position at a constant rate $r$. We compute the non-equilibrium stationary state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar

In this work, we focus on the behavior of a single passive Brownian particle in a suspension of passive particles with short-range repulsive interactions and a larger self-diffusion coefficient. While the forces affecting the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-26 Deborah Schwarcz , Stanislav Burov

A recent model of Ariel et al. [1] for explaining the observation of L\'evy walks in swarming bacteria suggests that self-propelled, elongated particles in a periodic array of regular vortices perform a super-diffusion that is consistent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Gil Ariel , Jeremy Schiff

A particle system with a single locally-conserved field (density) in a bounded interval with different densities maintained at the two endpoints of the interval is under study here. The particles interact in the bulk through a long range…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Mustapha Mourragui , Enza Orlandi

We study simple diffusion where a particle stochastically resets to its initial position at a constant rate r. A finite resetting rate leads to a nonequilibrium stationary state with non-Gaussian fluctuations for the particle position. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar

Diffusion with stochastic resetting, instantaneous returns of a diffusing particle to a reference point, creates a stationary probability distribution. The paradigm is extended here to a doubly stochastic protocol in which the resetting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-01 Maxence Arutkin , Shlomi Reuveni

We analyze circumstances under which the microscopic dynamics of particles which are driven by a forced, gradient-type flow can be consistently interpreted as a Markovian diffusion process. Special attention is paid to discriminating…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Garbaczewski

We theoretically study the transport properties of self-propelled particles on complex structures, such as motor proteins on filament networks. A general master equation formalism is developed to investigate the persistent motion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-19 M. Reza Shaebani , Zeinab Sadjadi , Igor M. Sokolov , Heiko Rieger , Ludger Santen

We discuss the diffusion phenomenon in the parabolic and hyperbolic regimes. New effects related to the finite velocity of the diffusion process are predicted, that can partially explain the strange behavior associated to adsorption…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 A. Sapora , M. Codegone , G. Barbero

Depending on their mechanism of self-propulsion, active particles can exhibit a time-dependent, often periodic, propulsion velocity. The precise propulsion velocity profile determines their mean square displacement and their effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-06 Arnau Jurado Romero , Carles Calero , Rossend Rey

Stochastic interactions generically enhance self-diffusivity in living and biological systems, e.g. optimizing navigation strategies and controlling material properties of cellular tissues and bacterial aggregates. Despite this, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-24 Henry Alston , Thibault Bertrand

We investigate dynamically and statistically diffusive motion in a Klein-Gordon particle chain in the presence of disorder. In particular, we examine a low energy (subdiffusive) and a higher energy (self-trapping) case and verify that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ch. G. Antonopoulos , T. Bountis , Ch. Skokos , L. Drossos

We introduce a kinetic Monte-Carlo model for self-propelled hard disks to capture with minimal ingredients the interplay between thermal fluctuations, excluded volume and self-propulsion in large assemblies of active particles. We analyze…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-16 Demian Levis , Ludovic Berthier

We study experimentally and numerically a (quasi) two dimensional colloidal suspension of self-propelled spherical particles. The particles are carbon-coated Janus particles, which are propelled due to diffusiophoresis in a near-critical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-10 Ivo Buttinoni , Julian Bialké , Felix Kümmel , Hartmut Löwen , Clemens Bechinger , Thomas Speck

Proliferation and motility are ubiquitous drivers of activity in biological systems. Here, we study a dense binary mixture of motile and proliferating particles with exclusively repulsive interactions, where homeostasis in the proliferating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-11 Lukas Hupe , Joanna M. Materska , David Zwicker , Ramin Golestanian , Bartlomiej Waclaw , Philip Bittihn

We consider diffusion-limited annihilating systems with mobile $A$-particles and stationary $B$-particles placed throughout a graph. Mutual annihilation occurs whenever an $A$-particle meets a $B$-particle. Such systems, when ran in…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Riti Bahl , Philip Barnet , Tobias Johnson , Matthew Junge

Propulsion of otherwise passive objects is achieved by mechanisms of active driving. We concentrate on cases in which the direction of active drive is subject to spontaneous symmetry breaking. In our case, this direction will be maintained,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Andreas M. Menzel

We study two new models of two particle species invading a surface from opposite sides. Collisions of particles of different species lead to the formation of congestion fronts. One of the models implements a reversible process whereas in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Bastian Burger , Hans J Herrmann