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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

In this paper, a comprehensive examination of the temperature- and bias-dependent diffusion regimes of underdamped Brownian particles is presented. A temperature threshold for a transition between anomalous and normal diffusive behaviors is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-16 Trey Jiron , Marygrace Prinster , Jarrod Schiffbauer

We numerically investigated the Brownian motion of active Janus particles in a linear array of planar counter-rotating convection rolls at high P\'eclet numbers. Similarly to passive particles, active microswimmers exhibit advection…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-14 Pulak Kumar Ghosh , Fabio Marchesoni , Yunyun Li , Franco Nori

We study the shear induced migration of microswimmers (primarily, active Brownian particles or ABP's) in a plane Poiseuille flow. For wide channels characterized by $U_b/HD_r \ll 1$, the separation between time scales characterizing the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-27 LaxminarsimhaRao V. , Sankalp Nambiar , Ganesh Subramanian

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

We investigate the phenomenon of turbulent thermal diffusion of inertial solid particles in laboratory experiments with convective turbulence forced by one or two oscillating grids in the air. Turbulent thermal diffusion causes a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 E. Elmakies , O. Shildkrot , N. Kleeorin , A. Levy , I. Rogachevskii

We study the thermal Markovian diffusion of tracer particles in a 2D medium with spatially-varying diffusivity $D(r)$, mimicking recently measured, heterogeneous maps of the apparent diffusion coefficient in biological cells. For this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 Andrey G. Cherstvy , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

We investigate the dynamics of tracer particles in the random average process (RAP), a single-file system in one dimension. In addition to the position, every particle possesses an internal spin variable $\sigma (t)$ that can alternate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-01 Saikat Santra , Prashant Singh , Anupam Kundu

Understanding the transport properties of microorganisms and self-propelled particles in porous media has important implications for human health as well as microbial ecology. In free space, most microswimmers perform diffusive random walks…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-10 David Saintillan

We address the gas, liquid, and crystal phase behaviour of active Brownian particles in three dimensions. The nonequilibrium force balance at coexistence leads to equality of state functions for which we use power functional approximations.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-28 Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

Stochasticity is a defining feature of the pairwise forces governing interactions in biological systems-from molecular motors to cell-cell adhesion-yet its consequences on large-scale dynamics remain poorly understood. Here, we show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-27 Henry Alston , Raphael Voituriez , Thibault Bertrand

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study the mechanism and kinetics of hydrated electron diffusion. The electron center of mass is found to exhibit Brownian-type behavior with a diffusion coefficient considerably greater than that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 Kafui A. Tay , François-Xavier Coudert , Anne Boutin

We develop a theoretical framework to study the effective dynamics of a tracer immersed in a nonequilibrium bath consisting of active particles. By using a mean-field approximation and extending the linearized Dean equation to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-04 Mengkai Feng , Zhonghuai Hou

A Langevin process diffusing in a periodic potential landscape has a time dependent diffusion constant which means that its average mean squared displacement (MSD) only becomes linear at late times. The long time, or effective diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 David S. Dean , Gleb Oshanin

We investigate the collective dynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) subjected to a steady two-dimensional four-roll-mill flow using numerical simulations. By varying the packing fraction ($\phi$), we uncover a novel flow-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Soni D. Prajapati , Kusum Seervi , Akshay Bhatnagar , Anupam Gupta

The diffusion of chiral active Brownian particles in three-dimensional space is studied analytically, by consideration of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation for the probability density of finding a particle at position…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Francisco J. Sevilla

The Active Brownian Particle (ABP) model exemplifies a wide class of active matter particles. In this work, we demonstrate how this model can be cast into a field theory in both two and three dimensions. Our aim is manifold: we wish both to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-26 Ziluo Zhang , Lili Fehértói-Nagy , Maria Polackova , Gunnar Pruessner

An interesting feature of the Davies-Unruh effect is that an uniformly accelerated observer sees an isotropic thermal spectrum of particles even though there is a preferred direction in this context, determined by the direction of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-29 Sanved Kolekar , T. Padmanabhan

The two-dimensional Active Brownian Particles system is meant to be composed of hard disks, that show excluded volume interactions, usually simulated via molecular dynamics using pure repulsive potentials. We show that the softness of the…

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…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 Oleksandr Chepizhko , Fernando Peruani