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A discrete rate theory for general multi-ion channels is presented, in which the continuous dynamics of ion diffusion is reduced to transitions between Markovian discrete states. In an open channel, the ion permeation process involves three…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-06-29 Wan Chen , Radek Erban , S. Jonathan Chapman

The present work analyzes stationary distributions of active Brownian particles in a harmonic trap. Generally, obtaining stationary distributions for this system is non-trivial, and up to date no exact expressions are available. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-12 Derek Frydel

The dynamics of temperature fluctuations of a gas of Brownian particles in local equilibrium with a nonequilibrium heat bath, are described using an approach consistent with Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics (BG). We use mesoscopic nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. F. Rodriguez , I. Santamaria-Holek

A system of N Brownian particles suspended in a nonuniform heat bath is treated as a thermodynamic system whith internal degrees of freedom, in this case their velocities and coordinates. Applying the scheme of non-equilibrium…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 J. M. Rubí , P. Mazur

The behavior of a heavy tagged intruder immersed in a bath of particles evolving under ballistic annihilation dynamics is investigated. The Fokker-Planck equation for this system is derived and the peculiarities of the corresponding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-07 M. I. Garcia de Soria , P. Maynar , E. Trizac

Brownian escape is key to a wealth of physico-chemical processes, including polymer folding, and information storage. The frequency of thermally activated energy barrier crossings is assumed to generally decrease exponentially with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-19 Marie Chupeau , Jannes Gladrow , Alexei Chepelianskii , Ulrich F. Keyser , Emmanuel Trizac

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

Cyclic transitions between active and passive states are central to many natural and synthetic systems, ranging from light-driven active particles to animal migrations. Here, we investigate a minimal model of self-propelled Brownian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-28 Ye Zhang , Duanduan Wan

We consider an active Brownian particle moving in a disordered two-dimensional energy or motility landscape. The averaged mean-square-displacement (MSD) of the particle is calculated analytically within a systematic short-time expansion. As…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-03 Davide Breoni , Michael Schmiedeberg , Hartmut Löwen

Directed transport of interacting active (self-propelled)Brownian particles is numerically investigated in confined geometries (entropic barriers). The self-propelled velocity can break thermodynamical equilibrium and induce the directed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-12 Bao-quan Ai , Ya-feng He , Wei-rong Zhong

In this paper, we consider the dynamics of a 2D target-searching agent performing Brownian motion under the influence of fluid shear flow and chemical attraction. The analysis is motivated by numerous situations in biology where these…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Yishu Gong , Siming He , Alexander Kiselev

We derive equations of motion for the mean-squared displacement (MSD) of an active Brownian particle (ABP) in a crowded environment modeled by a dense system of passive Brownian particles, and of a passive tracer particle in a dense…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-27 Julian Reichert , Thomas Voigtmann

Examples of self propulsion in strongly fluctuating environment is abound in nature, e.g., molecular motors and pumps operating in living cells. Starting from Langevin equation of motion, we develop a fluctuating thermodynamic description…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-20 Chandrima Ganguly , Debasish Chaudhuri

Within the Rayleigh-Helmholtz model of active Brownian particles activity is due to a non-linear velocity dependent force. In the presence of an external trapping potential or a constant force, the steady state of the system breaks detailed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Debasish Chaudhuri

The fundamental insight into Brownian motion by Einstein is that all substances exhibit continual fluctuations due to thermal agitation balancing with the frictional resistance. However, even at thermal equilibrium, biological activity can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-19 Soya Shinkai , Yuichi Togashi

We study the effects of an intermittent harmonic potential of strength $\mu = \mu_0 \nu$ -- that switches on and off stochastically at a constant rate $\gamma$, on an overdamped Brownian particle with damping coefficient $\nu$. This can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Ion Santra , Santanu Das , Sujit Kumar Nath

The phoretic Brownian dynamics method is shown here to be an effective approach to simulate the properties of colloidal chemophoretic based systems. The method is then optimized to allow for the comparison with results from multiparticle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-17 Surabhi Jaiswal , Marisol Ripoll , Snigdha Thakur

We investigate the behavior of self-propelled particles in infinite space dimensions by comparing two powerful approaches in many-body dynamics: the Fokker-Planck equation and dynamical mean-field theory. The dynamics of the particles at…

We present an exact solution for one-dimensional overdamped dynamics near a hard wall, allowing us to connect steady-state distributions under confinement with the extreme value statistics of unconfined stochastic processes. This mapping…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-05 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey

We investigate a diffusive motion of a system of interacting Brownian particles in quasi-one-dimensional micropores. In particular, we consider a semi-infinite 1D geometry with a partially absorbing boundary and the hard-core inter-particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-06 Artem Ryabov , Petr Chvosta