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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

Several ways are demonstrated of how periodic potentials can be exploited for sorting molecules or other small objects which only differ by their chirality. With the help of a static bias force, the two chiral partners can be made to move…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-06 David Speer , Ralf Eichhorn , Peter Reimann

Guiding active motion is important for targeted delivery, sensing, and search tasks. Many active systems exhibit circular swimming, ubiquitous in chemical, physical, and biological systems, that biases motion and reduces transport…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-26 Amir Shee

The Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) effect describes the ability of chiral molecules and crystals to transmit spin-polarized currents, a phenomenon first identified in 1999. Although this effect holds great promise for a broad…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Sushant Kumar Behera , Ruggero Sala , Abhirup Roy Karmakar , Matteo Moioli , Rocco Martinazzo , Matteo Cococcioni

Chiral active fluids break both time-reversal and parity symmetry, leading to exotic transport phenomena unobservable in ordinary passive fluids. We develop a generalized Green-Kubo relation for the anomalous lift experienced by a passive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-26 Anthony R. Poggioli , David T. Limmer

There is currently a strong interest in the collective behavior of chiral active particles that can propel and rotate themselves. In the presence of alignment interactions for many chiral particles, chiral self-propulsion can induce vortex…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-01 Lorenzo Caprini , Benno Liebchen , Hartmut Löwen

We study the dynamics of asymmetric, deformable particles in oscillatory, linear shear flow. By simulating the motion of a dumbbell, a ring polymer, and a capsule we show that cross-stream migration occurs for asymmetric elastic particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-26 Matthias Laumann , Paul Bauknecht , Stephan Gekle , Diego Kienle , Walter Zimmermann

We analyze a model for a walker moving on a ratchet potential. This model is motivated by the properties of transport of motor proteins, like kinesin and myosin. The walker consists of two feet represented as two particles coupled…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jose L. Mateos

We study a one-dimensional mixture of active (run-and-tumble) particles and passive (Brownian) particles, with single-file constraint, in a sawtooth potential. The active particles experience a ratchet effect: this generates a current,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-01 Jean-François Derivaux , Robert L. Jack , Michael E. Cates

We study a binary mixture of polar chiral (counterclockwise or clockwise) active particles in a two-dimensional box with periodic boundary conditions. Beside the excluded volume interactions between particles, particles are also subject to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-01 Bao-quan Ai , Zhi-gang Shao , Wei-rong Zhong

The diffusion of micro- and nanoswimmers in a fluid, confined within irregular structures that impose entropic barriers, is often modeled using overdamped active Brownian dynamics, where viscous effects are paramount and inertia is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-03 Narender Khatri , Vikas Sharma , Anton F. Burnet , Suneet Kumar Awasthi

We theoretically explore the dynamics of a chiral active Ornstein Uhlenbeck particle confined in a two-dimensional anisotropic harmonic trap. The particle is driven by chirality and is coupled to two orthogonal heat baths, potentially at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-17 S Deion , F Adersh , M Sahoo

We uncover and characterize different chaotic transport scenarios on perfect periodic surfaces by controlling the chaotic dynamics of particles subjected to periodic external forces in the absence of a ratchet effect. After identifying…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-03-26 R. Chacon , A. M. Lacasta

Directed-ratchet transport (DRT) in a one-dimensional lattice of spherical beads, which serves as a prototype for granular crystals, is investigated. We consider a system where the trajectory of the central bead is prescribed by a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-12-03 V. Berardi , J. Lydon , P. G. Kevrekidis , C. Daraio , R. Carretero-Gonzalez

Self-propelled particles rarely move in straight lines; environmental interactions, shape asymmetry, and intrinsic torques generically induce curved or fluctuating trajectories. In biological and synthetic systems, this curvature often…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-06 Diganta Bhaskar , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Anil Kumar Dasanna

Channel proteins, that selectively conduct molecules across cell membranes, often exhibit an asymmetric structure. By means of a stochastic model, we argue that channel asymmetry in the presence of non-equilibrium fluctuations, fueled by…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioan Kosztin , Klaus Schulten

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

We discuss two-dimensional diffusion of a Brownian particle confined to a periodic asymmetric channel with soft walls modeled by a parabolic potential. In the channel, the particle experiences different noise intensities, or temperatures,…

We investigate a driven two-channel system where particles on different lanes mutually obstruct each others motion extending an earlier model by Popkov and Peschel [1]. This obstruction may occur in biological contexts due to steric…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Anna Melbinger , Tobias Reichenbach , Thomas Franosch , Erwin Frey

Study on a rectified current induced by active particles has received a great attention due to its possible application to a microscopic motor in biological environments. Insertion of an {\em asymmetric} passive object amid many active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-19 Jae Sung Lee , Jong-Min Park , Jae Dong Noh , Hyunggyu Park