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We study the effects of time and space correlations of an external additive colored noise on the steady-state behavior of a Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau model. Simulations show the existence of nonequilibrium phase transitions controlled…

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We study a stationary state of a single self-propelled, athermal particle in linear and quadratic external potentials. The self-propulsion is modeled as a fluctuating force evolving according to the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, independently…

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Active particles in anisotropic, viscoelastic fluids experience competing stresses which guide their trajectories. An aligned suspension of particles can trigger a hydrodynamic bend instability, but the elasticity of the fluid can drive…

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The local balance equations for the density, momentum, and energy of a dilute gas of elastic or inelastic hard spheres, strongly confined between two parallel hard plates are obtained. The starting point is a Boltzmann-like kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 J. Javier Brey , P. Maynar , M. I. García de Soria

In amorphous solids subject to shear or thermal excitation, so-called structural indicators have been developed that predict locations of future plasticity or particle rearrangements. An open question is whether similar tools can be used in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-31 Julia A. Giannini , Ethan M. Stanifer , M. Lisa Manning

We consider the long-time dynamics of a general class of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations, describing the large population behavior of mean-field interacting units. The main motivation of this work concerns the case where the individual…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Eric Lucon , Christophe Poquet

We get fractional symmetric Fokker - Planck and Einstein - Smoluchowski kinetic equations, which describe evolution of the systems influenced by stochastic forces distributed with stable probability laws. These equations generalize known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Chechkin , V. Yu. Gonchar

In a system of colloidal inclusions suspended in a thermalized bath of smaller particles, the bath engenders an attractive force between the inclusions, arising mainly from entropic origins, known as the depletion force. In the case of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-01 Mahdi Zarif , Ali Naji

For a model nonlinear dynamical system, we show how one may obtain its bifurcation behavior by introducing noise into the dynamics and then studying the resulting Langevin dynamics in the weak-noise limit. A suitable quantity to capture the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-02-06 Debraj Das , Sayan Roy , Shamik Gupta

We extensively study the Toner-Tu-Swift-Hohenberg model of motile active matter by means of direct numerical simulations in a two-dimensional confined domain. By exploring the space of parameters of the model we investigate the emergence of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-02 Leonardo Puggioni , Guido Boffetta , Stefano Musacchio

We solve the time-dependent Fokker-Planck equation for a two-dimensional active Brownian particle exploring a rectangular domain with absorbing boundary and in the presence of a parabolic barrier along one direction. By taking those of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-09 Michele Caraglio

The interaction of an atomic gas confined inside a cavity with a strong electromagnetic field is numerically and theoretically investigated in a regime where recoil effects are not negligible. The spontaneous appearance of a density grating…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Javaloyes , M. Perrin , G. L. Lippi , A. Politi

We study the stationary state of a chain of harmonic oscillators driven by two active reservoirs at the two ends. These reservoirs exert correlated stochastic forces on the boundary oscillators which eventually leads to a nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-19 Ritwick Sarkar , Ion Santra , Urna Basu

We report and characterize the emergence of a noise-induced state of quenched disorder in a generic model describing a dense sheet of active polar disks with non-isotropic rotational and translational dynamics. In this state, randomly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-10 Guozheng Lin , Zhangang Han , Amir Shee , Cristián Huepe

Pattern formation of atoms in high-finesse optical resonators results from the mechanical forces of light associated with superradiant scattering into the cavity mode. It occurs when the laser intensity exceeds a threshold value, such that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Stefan Schütz , Simon B. Jäger , Giovanna Morigi

The stochastic dynamics of a rigid inclusion constrained to move on a curved surface has many applications in biological and soft matter physics, ranging from the diffusion of passive or active membrane proteins to the motion of phoretic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-18 Balázs Németh , Ronojoy Adhikari

We consider the mean field Fokker-Planck equation subject to nonlinear no-flux boundary conditions, which necessarily arise when subjecting a system of Brownian particles interacting via a pair potential in a bounded domain. With the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 R. D. Mills-Williams , B. D. Goddard , G. A. Pavliotis

The transport coefficients of a dilute gas of inelastic hard spheres immersed in a molecular gas are determined. We assume that the number density of the granular gas is much smaller than that of the surrounding molecular gas, so that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-07 Rubén Gómez González , Vicente Garzó

We derive from first principles the mechanical pressure $P$, defined as the force per unit area on a bounding wall, in a system of spherical, overdamped, active Brownian particles at density $\rho$. Our exact result relates $P$, in closed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-10 A. P. Solon , J. Stenhammar , R. Wittkowski , M. Kardar , Y. Kafri , M. E. Cates , J. Tailleur

Methods of stochastic thermodynamics and hydrodynamics are applied to the a recently introduced model of active particles. The model consists of an overdamped particle subject to Gaussian coloured noise. Inspired by stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-09 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi , Claudio Maggi