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In this work, we study the dynamics of a single active Brownian particle, as well as the collective behavior of interacting active Brownian particles, in a fluctuating heterogeneous environment. We employ a variant of the diffusing…

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The diffusive transport of biased Brownian particles in a two-dimensional symmetric channel is investigated numerically considering both the no-flow and the reflection boundary conditions at the channel boundaries. Here, the geometrical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-10 Narender Khatri , P. S. Burada

Dynamics of active or self-propulsive Brownian particles in nonequilibrium status, has recently attracted great interest in many fields including biological entities and artificial micro/nanoscopic motors6. Understanding of their dynamics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-18 Xuewen Fu , Bin Chen , Jau Tang , Ahmed H. Zewail

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…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 Sadra Saremi , Amirhossein Ahmadkhan Kordbacheh

We study dynamical properties of confined, self-propelled Brownian particles in an inhomogeneous activity profile. Using Brownian dynamics simulations, we calculate the probability to reach a fixed target and the mean first passage time to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-30 Hidde Vuijk , Abhinav Sharma , Debasish Mondal , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Holger Merlitz

Designing microscopic and nanoscopic self-propelled particles and characterising their motion has become a major scientific challenge over the past decades. To this purpose, phoretic effects, namely propulsion mechanisms relying on local…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-09 Pierre Illien , Ramin Golestanian , Ayusman Sen

An important question in the field of active matter is whether or not it is possible to predict the phase behavior of these systems. Here, we study the phase coexistence of binary mixtures of torque-free active Brownian particles, for both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-03 Berend van der Meer , Vasileios Prymidis , Marjolein Dijkstra , Laura Filion

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

The transport of self-propelled particles such as bacteria and phoretic swimmers through crowded heterogeneous environments is relevant to many natural and engineering processes, from biofilm formation and contamination processes to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-10 Roberto Alonso-Matilla , Brato Chakrabarti , David Saintillan

We show that Brownian motion is spatially not symmetric for mesoscopic particles embedded in a fluid if the particle is not in thermal equilibrium and its shape is not spherical. In view of applications on molecular motors in biological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Susan Sporer , Christian Goll , Klaus Mecke

We consider two different models for colloidal particles. In the first model, we consider their free motion to be diffusion while in the second model we take it to be integrated Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. In both models, we derived…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Guolong Li

Inspired by groups of animals and robots, we study the collective dynamics of large numbers of active particles, each one trying to get to its own randomly placed target, while avoiding collisions with each other. The particles we study are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-09 Mathias Casiulis , Dov Levine

The transport phenomenon(directional movement) of self-propelled Brownian particles moving in a smooth corrugated confined channel is investigated. It is found that large $x$ direction noise intensity should reduce particles directional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-23 Bing Wang , Hao Chen , Yong Wu

Living systems routinely consume energy to achieve motility, often using intricate biomolecular machinery. In this work, we show that active droplets can sustain indefinite self-propulsion of a spherical colloid in an otherwise homogeneous,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-01 Benjamin Sorkin , Ned S. Wingreen

We study numerically the motion of a one dimensional array of Brownian particles in a washboard potential, driven by an external stochastic force and interacting via short range repulsive forces. In particular, we investigate the role of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giulio Costantini , Fabio Cecconi , Umberto Marini-Bettolo-Marconi

We derive a microscopic expression for a quantity $\mu$ that plays the role of chemical potential of Active Brownian Particles (ABPs) in a steady state in the absence of vortices. We show that $\mu$ consists of (i) an intrinsic chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-17 Siddharth Paliwal , Jeroen Rodenburg , René van Roij , Marjolein Dijkstra

We study the dynamics and conformation of polymers composed by active monomers. By means of Brownian dynamics simulations we show that when the direction of the self-propulsion of each monomer is aligned with the backbone, the polymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-28 Valentino Bianco , Emanuele Locatelli , Paolo Malgaretti

Non-typical transport phenomena may arise when randomly driven particles remain in an active relationship with the environment instead of being passive. If we attribute to Brownian particles an ability to induce alterations of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Piotr Garbaczewski

We use computer simulations to study the onset of collective motion in systems of interacting active particles. Our model is a swarm of active Brownian particles with internal energy depot and interactions inspired by the dissipative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-31 Vladimir Lobaskin , Maksym Romenskyy

Collections of self-propelled particles that move persistently by continuously consuming free energy are a paradigmatic example of active matter. In these systems, unlike Brownian "hot colloids", the breakdown of detailed balance yields a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-12 Suraj Shankar , M. Cristina Marchetti