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Active solids combine internal active driving with elasticity to realize states with nonequilibrium mechanics and autonomous motion. They are often studied in overdamped settings, e.g., in soft materials, and the role of inertia is less…

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We propose and study the properties of a non-linear electrodynamics that emerges inspired on the physics of Dirac materials. This new electrodynamic model is an extension of the one-loop corrected non-linear effective Lagrangian computed in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-29 M. J. Neves , Patricio Gaete , L. P. R. Ospedal , J. A. Helayël-Neto

Understanding stochastic thermodynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) system has been an important topic in very recent years. In this article we study a general model of active Brownian particle systems by introducing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-11 Zhiyu Cao , Jie Su , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

We propose a new mechanism to alter the nature of the potential barriers when a biased Brownian particle under goes a constrained motion in narrow, periodic channel. By changing the angle of the external bias, the nature of the potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-06 P. S. Burada , G. Schmid

The nonlinear response of an adsorbed layer on a periodic substrate to an external force is studied via a two dimensional uniaxial Frenkel-Kontorova model. The nonequlibrium properties of the model are simulated by Brownian molecular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Enzo Granato , S. C. Ying

For a Brownian system the evolution of thermodynamic quantities is a stochastic process. In particular, the work performed on a driven colloidal particle held in an optical trap changes for each realization of the experimental manipulation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Giuseppe Pesce , Giovanni Volpe , Alberto Imparato , Giulia Rusciano , Antonio Sasso

We study the dynamics of an active Brownian particle with a nonlinear friction function located in a spatial cubic potential. For strong but finite damping, the escape rate of the particle over the spatial potential barrier shows a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-02 P. S. Burada , B. Lindner

Fractional Brownian motion and the fractional Langevin equation are models of anomalous diffusion processes characterized by long-range power-law correlations in time. We employ large-scale computer simulations to study these models in two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-22 Thomas Vojta , Alex Warhover

Density-dependent diffusion is a widespread phenomenon in nature. We have examined the density-dependent diffusion behavior of some biological processes such as tumor growth and invasion [23]. Here, we extend our previous work by developing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-14 Ahmed M. Fouad , Marwa M. Fouad

Systems switching between different dynamical phases is an ubiquitous phenomenon. The general understanding of such a process is limited. To this end, we present a general expression that captures fluctuations of a system exhibiting a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-05 Ion Santra , Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Deepak Gupta

Active Brownian motion with intermittent direction reversals are common in a class of bacteria like {\it Myxococcus xanthus} and {\it Pseudomonas putida}. We show that, for such a motion in two dimensions, the presence of the two time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-04 Ion Santra , Urna Basu , Sanjib Sabhapandit

The fluctuation-dissipation theorem is a central theorem in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics by which the evolution of velocity fluctuations of the Brownian particle under a fluctuating environment is intimately related to its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Tai-Hung Wu , Da-Shin Lee

We computationally study the behavior of underdamped active Brownian particles in a sheared channel geometry. Due to their underdamped dynamics, the particles carry momentum a characteristic distance away from the boundary before it is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-23 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

An explicit expression for the quadratic density-response function of a many-electron system is obtained in the framework of the time-dependent density-functional theory, in terms of the linear and quadratic density-response functions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 V. U. Nazarov , J. M. Pitarke , C. S. Kim , Y. Takada

We investigate the dynamics of an inertial active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle suspended in a non-Markovian environment. The particle is additionally subjected to external forces, such as harmonic confinement and a magnetic field. Motivated…

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We consider one-dimensional diffusions, with polynomial drift and diffusion coefficients, so that in particular the motion can be space-inhomogeneous, interacting via one-sided reflections. The prototypical example is the well-known model…

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We derive the probability density function of the positive occupation time of one-dimensional Brownian motion with two-valued drift. Long time asymptotics of the density are also computed. We use the result to describe the transitional…

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We investigate the influence of external forces on the collective dynamics of interacting active Brownian particles in two as well as three spatial dimensions. Via explicit coarse graining, we derive predictive models that are applicable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-10 Jens Bickmann , Stephan Bröker , Raphael Wittkowski

We study dynamical properties of confined, self-propelled Brownian particles in an inhomogeneous activity profile. Using Brownian dynamics simulations, we calculate the probability to reach a fixed target and the mean first passage time to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-30 Hidde Vuijk , Abhinav Sharma , Debasish Mondal , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Holger Merlitz