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This article reports the modeling of inertial rotational Brownian motion as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process evolving on the cotangent bundle of the rotation group, SO(3). The benefit of this approach and the use of a different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-14 Amitesh S. Jayaraman , Jikai Ye , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with long-range correlations in time; it has been shown to be a useful model of anomalous diffusion. Here, we investigate the effects of mutual interactions in an ensemble of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-15 Jonathan House , Rashad Bakhshizada , Skirmantas Janušonis , Ralf Metzler , Thomas Vojta

Diffusion and rectification of Brownian particles powered by a rotating wheel are numerically investigated in a two-dimensional channel. The nonequilibrium driving comes from the rotating wheel, which can break thermodynamical equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-24 Bao-quan Ai

Motivated by the anomalous diffusion observed in clusters of active Brownian particles (ABPs), where the center-of-mass diffusion coefficient scales as $D\sim N^{-1/2}$ with respect to the number $N$ of particles in the cluster, we derive a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-07 Daniela Moretti , Pasquale Digregorio , Giuseppe Gonnella , Antonio Suma

The study of diffusion with preferential returns to places visited in the past has attracted an increased attention in recent years. In these highly non-Markov processes, a standard diffusive particle intermittently resets at a given rate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-08 Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar

We calculate the probability distribution function (PDF) of an overdamped Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential energy landscape $U(x)$. The PDF is found by solving the corresponding Smoluchowski diffusion equation. We derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-21 Matan Sivan , Oded Farago

We study the Brownian motion of a particle in a bounded circular 2-dimensional domain, in search for a stationary target on the boundary of the domain. The process switches between two modes: one where it performs a two-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-13 Abhinava Chatterjee , Christos Christou , Andreas Schadschneider

We analyze the diffusion of a Brownian particle in a fluid under stationary flow. By using the scheme of non-equilibrium thermodynamics in phase space, we obtain the Fokker-Planck equation which is compared with others derived from kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 I. Santamaría-Holek , D. Reguera , J. M. Rubí

Jerky active particles are Brownian self-propelled particles which are dominated by ``jerk'', the change in acceleration. They represent a generalization of inertial active particles. In order to describe jerky active particles, a linear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-15 Hartmut Löwen

Diffusion of small particles is omnipresent in a plentiful number of processes occurring in Nature. As such, it is widely studied and exerted in almost all branches of sciences. It constitutes such a broad and often rather complex subject…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Jakub Spiechowicz , Ivan G. Marchenko , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

The non-equilibrium dynamics of individual chiral active particles underpin the complex behavior of chiral active matter. Here we present an exact analytical framework, supported by simulations, to characterize the steady states of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-29 Anweshika Pattanayak , Amir Shee , Debasish Chaudhuri , Abhishek Chaudhuri

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

Anomalous short- and long-time self-diffusion of non-overlapping fractal particles on a percolation cluster with spreading dimension $1.67(2)$ is studied by dynamic Monte Carlo simulations. As reported in Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097801…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-08 Marco Heinen

A study of the diffusion of a passive Brownian particle on the surface of a sphere and subject to the effects of an external potential, coupled linearly to the probability density of the particle's position, is presented through a numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-31 Adriano Valdés Gómez , Francisco J. Sevilla

We study experimentally, numerically and analytically, the dynamics of a chiral active particle (cm-sized robots), pulled at a constant translational velocity. We show that the system can be mapped to a Brownian particle driven across a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-26 Juan Pablo Carrillo-Mora , Adrià Garcés , Demian Levis

We study the dynamics of an athermal inertial active particle moving in a shear-thinning medium in $d=1$. The viscosity of the medium is modeled using a Coulomb-tanh function, while the activity is represented by an asymmetric dichotomous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-16 Sayantan Mondal , Prasenjit Das

We study the convergence of the empirical distribution associated with a system of interacting kinetic particles subject to independent Brownian forcing in a finite horizon setting, using some recent progress on kinetic non-linear partial…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Carlo Bellingeri , Fabio Coppini

Brownian motion is the perpetual irregular motion exhibited by small particles immersed in a fluid. Such random motion of the particles is produced by statistical fluctuations in the collisions they suffer with the molecules of the…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Kasturi Basu , Kopinjol Baishya

We construct a planar diffusion process whose infinitesimal generator depends only on the order of the components of the process. Speaking informally and a bit imprecisely for the moment, imagine you run two Brownian-like particles on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-19 E. Robert Fernholz , Tomoyuki Ichiba , Ioannis Karatzas , Vilmos Prokaj

We present a classical, mesoscopic derivation of the Fokker-Planck equation for diffusion in an expanding medium. To this end, we take a conveniently generalized Chapman-Kolmogorov equation as the starting point. We obtain an analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-21 S. B. Yuste , E. Abad , C. Escudero