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The interfacial behavior of active Brownian polymer (ABPO) is studied by Langevin dynamics simulations. On the dependence of adsorption strength and activity characterized by Peclet number (Pe), the polymer displays two typical states on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-27 Guo-qiang Feng , Wen-de Tian

We investigate the extreme value statistics of a one-dimensional Brownian motion (with the diffusion constant $D$) during a time interval $\left[0, t \right]$ in the presence of a reflective boundary at the origin, starting from a positive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-26 Feng Huang , Hanshuang Chen

In a theoretical and simulation study, active Brownian particles (ABPs) in three-dimensional bulk systems are exposed to time-varying sinusoidal activity waves that are running through the system. A linear response (Green-Kubo) formalism is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-13 Holger Merlitz , Hidde Vuijk , Joseph Brader , Abhinav Sharma , Jense-Uwe Sommer

A model for anomalous transport of tracer particles diffusing in complex media in two dimensions is proposed. The model takes into account the characteristics of persistent motion that active bath transfer to the tracer, thus the model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Francisco J. Sevilla , Adriano Valdés-Gómez , Alexis Torres-Carbajal

We study the structural and dynamical behaviors of a diblock copolymer chain in a bath of active Brownian particles (ABPs) by extensive Brownian dynamics simulation in a two-dimensional model system. Specifically, the A block of chain is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-22 Yi-qi Xia , Zhuang-lin Shen , Wen-de Tian , Kang Chen , Yu-qiang Ma

We study the first-passage-time (FPT) properties of active Brownian particles to reach an absorbing wall in two dimensions. Employing a perturbation approach we obtain exact analytical predictions for the survival and FPT distributions for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-10 Yanis Baouche , Magali Le Goff , Christina Kurzthaler , Thomas Franosch

Using extensive numerical studies we demonstrate that absolute negative mobility of a Brownian particle (i.e. the net motion into the direction opposite to a constant biasing force acting around zero bias) does coexist with anomalous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 J. Spiechowicz , P. Hänggi , J. Łuczka

Various challenges are faced when animalcules such as bacteria, protozoa, algae, or sperms move autonomously in aqueous media at low Reynolds number. These active agents are subject to strong stochastic fluctuations, that compete with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-16 Christina Kurzthaler , Sebastian Leitmann , Thomas Franosch

We employ renewal processes to characterize the spatiotemporal dynamics of an active Brownian particle under stochastic orientational resetting. By computing the experimentally accessible intermediate scattering function (ISF) and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-14 Yanis Baouche , Thomas Franosch , Matthias Meiners , Christina Kurzthaler

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

We study an active Brownian run-and-tumble particle (ABRTP) model, that consists of an active Brownian run state during which the active velocity of the particle diffuses on the unit circle, and a tumble state during which the active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-03 Aoran Sun , Da Wei , Yiyu Zhang , Fangfu Ye , Rudolf Podgornik

Using Brownian dynamics simulations, the motion of active Brownian particles (ABPs) in the presence of fuel (or 'food') sources is studied. It is an established fact that within confined stationary systems, the activity of ABPs generates…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Holger Merlitz , Hidde Derk Vuijk , Rene Wittmann , Abhinav Sharma , Jens-Uwe Sommer

Active Brownian particles (ABPs, such as self-phoretic colloids) swim at fixed speed $v$ along a body-axis ${\bf u}$ that rotates by slow angular diffusion. Run-and-tumble particles (RTPs, such as motile bacteria) swim with constant $\u$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-27 M. E. Cates , J. Tailleur

We study the dynamics of circular active particles (AP) on a two dimensional periodic undulated surface. Each particle has an internal energy mechanism which is modeled by an active friction force and it is controlled by an activity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-04 Vivek Semwal , Shambhavi Dikshit , Shradha Mishra

Recently, it has been discovered that systems of Active Brownian particles (APB) at high density organise their velocities into coherent domains showing large spatial structures in the velocity field. Such a collective behavior occurs…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-23 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We study impact of inertia on directed transport of a Brownian particle under non-equilibrium conditions: the particle moves in a one-dimensional periodic and symmetric potential, is driven by both an unbiased time-periodic force and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-25 Aleksandra Słapik , Jerzy Łuczka , Jakub Spiechowicz

A colloidal suspension of active Brownian particles (ABPs) driven by controllable forces into directed or persistent motions can serve as a model for understanding the biological systems. Experiments and numerical simulations are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-27 Chong Shen , Lanfang Li , Zhiyu Jiang , H. Daneil Ou-Yang

Active and diffusive motion in Brownian particles are regularly observed in fluidic environments, albeit at different time scales. Here, we experimentally study the dynamics of highly asymmetric microclusters trapped in air employing…

Using an additivity property, we study particle-number fluctuations in a system of interacting self-propelled particles, called active Brownian particles (ABPs), which consists of repulsive disks with random self-propulsion velocities. From…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-16 Subhadip Chakraborti , Shradha Mishra , Punyabrata Pradhan

Quantitatively understanding of the dynamics of an active Brownian particle (ABP) interacting with a viscoelastic polymer environment is a scientific challenge. It is intimately related to several interdisciplinary topics such as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-17 Sungmin Joo , Xavier Durang , O-chul Lee , Jae-Hyung Jeon