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Thermal fluctuations are a fundamental feature of dissipative systems that are essential for understanding physics near the expected critical point of QCD and in small systems. When such fluctuations are modeled naively in relativistic…

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The interplay between Coulomb friction and random excitations is studied experimentally by means of a rotating probe in contact with a stationary granular gas. The granular material is independently fluidized by a vertical shaker, acting as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-26 A. Gnoli , A. Puglisi , H. Touchette

We present a general theory for determining the force (and torque) exerted on a boundary (or body) in active matter. The theory extends the description of passive Brownian colloids to self-propelled active particles and applies for all…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-19 Wen Yan , John F. Brady

The impact of turbulent fluctuations on the forces exerted by a fluid on a towed spherical particle is investigated by means of high-resolution direct numerical simulations. The measurements are carried out using a novel scheme to integrate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-21 Holger Homann , Jérémie Bec , Rainer Grauer

We discuss the random motion of charged test particles driven by quantum electromagnetic fluctuations at finite temperature in both the unbounded flat space and flat spacetime with a reflecting boundary and calculate the mean squared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongwei Yu , Jun Chen , Puxun Wu

We use a mesoscopic computer simulation method to study the interplay between hydrodynamic and Brownian fluctuations during steady-state sedimentation of hard sphere particles for Peclet numbers (Pe) ranging from 0.1 to 15. Even when the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. T. Padding , A. A. Louis

Dynamics of the particle phase in a particle laden turbulent flow is highly influenced by the fluctuating velocity and vorticity field of the fluid phase. The present work mainly focuses on exploring the possibility of applying a Langevin…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-08 Swagnik Ghosh , Partha Sarathi Goswami

We present a diagrammatic formulation of a theory for the time dependence of density fluctuations in equilibrium systems of interacting Brownian particles. To facilitate derivation of the diagrammatic expansion we introduce a basis that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Grzegorz Szamel

We study the Brownian dynamics of a solid particle on a vibrating solid surface. Phenomenologically, the interaction between the two solid surfaces is modeled by solid friction, and the Gaussian white noise models the vibration of the solid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-15 Prasenjit Das , Moshe Schwartz , Sanjay Puri

Many biological systems are appropriately viewed as passive inclusions immersed in an active bath: from proteins on active membranes to microscopic swimmers confined by boundaries. The non-equilibrium forces exerted by the active bath on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-06 Alpha A. Lee , Dominic Vella , John S. Wettlaufer

We develop a formally exact technique for obtaining steady-state distributions of non-interacting active Brownian particles in a variety of systems. Our technique draws on results from the theory of two-way diffusion equations to solve the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-06 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

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

We describe direct imaging measurements of the collective and relative diffusion of two colloidal spheres near a flat plate. The bounding surface modifies the spheres' dynamics, even at separations of tens of radii. This behavior is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric R. Dufresne , Todd M. Squires , Michael P. Brenner , David G. Grier

In this article we derive and test the fluctuating hydrodynamic description of active particles interacting via taxis and quorum sensing, both for mono-disperse systems and for mixtures of co-existing species of active particles. We compute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-14 Alberto Dinelli , Jérémy O'Byrne , Julien Tailleur

The dynamics of a tracer molecule near a fluid membrane is investigated, with particular emphasis given to the interplay between the instantaneous position of the particle and membrane fluctuations. It is found that hydrodynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Bickel

Non-equilibrium stochastic dynamics of several active Brownian systems are modeled in terms of non-linear velocity dependent force. In general, this force may consist of both even and odd functions of velocity. We derive the expression for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Debasish Chaudhuri

A colloidal particle embedded in a fluid can be used as a microscopic heat engine by means of a sequence of cyclic transformations imposed by an optical trap. We investigate a model for the operation of such kind of Brownian engines when…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-30 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano

In this article, we introduce Brownian motion on stable looptrees using resistance techniques. We prove an invariance principle characterising it as the scaling limit of random walks on discrete looptrees, and prove precise local and global…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Eleanor Archer

Minimal models of active Brownian colloids consisting of self-propelled spherical particles with purely repulsive interactions have recently been identified as excellent quantitative testing grounds for theories of active matter and have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-12 M. Cristina Marchetti , Yaouen Fily , Silke Henkes , Adam Patch , David Yllanes

The active Brownian particle (ABP) model describes a swimmer, synthetic or living, whose direction of swimming is a Brownian motion. The swimming is due to a propulsion force, and the fluctuations are typically thermal in origin. We present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-18 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Jiajia Guo