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It is well known that path probabilities of Brownian motion correspond to the equilibrium configurational probabilities of flexible Gaussian polymers, while those of active Brownian motion correspond to in-extensible semiflexible polymers.…

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Starting from the many-particle Smoluchowski equation, we derive dynamical density functional theory for Brownian particles with an arbitrary shape. Both passive and active (self-propelled) particles are considered. The resulting theory…

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Magnetic nanoparticles are useful in many medical applications because they interact with biology on a cellular level thus allowing microenvironmental investigation. An enhanced understanding of the dynamics of magnetic particles may lead…

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In this paper, we study exactly the thermal conductance for a low dimensional system represented by two coupled massive Brownian particles, both directly and via a Green-Kubo expression. Both approaches give exactly the same result. We also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-01 W. A. M. Morgado , D. O. Soares-Pinto

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) function as self-driving agents that display non-equilibrium behavior through their pairwise interactions which lead to phase separation and vortex patterns in both soft matter and living systems. A…

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We perform systematic simulation experiments on model systems with soft-sphere repulsive interactions to test the predicted dynamic equivalence between soft-sphere liquids with similar static structure. For this we compare the simulated…

We present a stochastic description of a model of N mutually repelling active spheres in the presence of external fields and characterize its steady state behavior. To reproduce the effects of the experimentally observed persistence of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-03 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Claudio Maggi

Self-propelled particles that are subject to noise are a well-established generic model system for active matter. A homogeneous alignment field can be used to orient the direction of the self-propulsion velocity and to model systems like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-06 Sameh Othman , Jiarul Midya , Thorsten Auth , Gerhard Gompper

We establish an integration by parts formula for the semi-group in time $T > 0$ of the kinetic Brownian motion in the Euclidean plane together with its speed in the circle. The stochastic differential equation of our kinetic Brownian motion…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Magalie Bénéfice , Michel Bonnefont , Marc Arnaudon , Delphine Féral

Brownian motion of single particles with various masses M and diameters D is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. Besides the momentum auto-correlation function of the Brownian particle the memory function and the fluctuating force…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hyun Kyung Shin , Changho Kim , Peter Talkner , Eok Kyun Lee

We computationally study suspensions of slow and fast active Brownian particles that have undergone motility induced phase separation and are at steady state. Such mixtures, of varying non-zero activity, remain largely unexplored even…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-11 Nicholas J Lauersdorf , Ehssan Nazockdast , Daphne Klotsa

The equilibrium properties of a system of passive diffusing particles in an external magnetic field are unaffected by the Lorentz force. In contrast, active Brownian particles exhibit steady-state phenomena that depend on both the strength…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-06 Iman Abdoli , Abhinav Sharma

We consider a system of independent point-like particles performing a Brownian motion while interacting with a Gaussian fluctuating background. These particles are in addition endowed with a discrete two-state internal degree of freedom…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-12 Ruben Zakine , Jean-Baptiste Fournier , Frédéric van Wijland

The theory of quantum Brownian motion describes the properties of a large class of open quantum systems. Nonetheless, its description in terms of a Born-Markov master equation, widely used in the literature, is known to violate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-16 Aniello Lampo , Soon Hoe Lim , Jan Wehr , Pietro Massignan , Maciej Lewenstein

We study the dynamical decay of the van Hove function of Brownian hard spheres using event-driven Brownian dynamics simulations and dynamic test particle theory. Relevant decays mechanisms include deconfinement of the self particle, decay…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-20 Lucas L. Treffenstädt , Thomas Schindler , Matthias Schmidt

Standard algorithms for the numerical integration of the Langevin equation require that interactions are slowly varying during to the integration timestep. This in not the case for hard-body systems, where there is no clearcut between the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-07 Antonio Scala

Understanding microstructure in terms of closed-form expressions is an open challenge in nonequilibrium statistical physics. We propose a simple and generic method that combines particle-resolved simulations, deep neural networks and…

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Rotating equilibrated systems are widespread, but relatively little attention has been devoted to studying them from the first principles of statistical mechanics. We fill this gap by studying a Brownian particle coupled with a thermal bath…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-19 Ashot Matevosyan , Armen E. Allahverdyan

We derive the non-Maxwellian distribution of self-gravitating $N$-body systems around the core by a model based on the random process with the additive and the multiplicative noise. The number density can be obtained through the steady…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-08-09 Tohru Tashiro , Takayuki Tatekawa

While active matter physics has traditionally focused on particles with overdamped dynamics, recent years have seen an increase of experimental and theoretical work on active systems with inertia. This also leads to an increased need for…

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