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We introduce a model of self-propelled particles carrying out a Brownian motion with a diffusion coefficient which depends on the local density of particles within a certain finite radius. Numerical simulations show that in a range of…

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We study the Brownian dynamics of a solid particle on a vibrating solid surface. Phenomenologically, the interaction between the two solid surfaces is modeled by solid friction, and the Gaussian white noise models the vibration of the solid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-15 Prasenjit Das , Moshe Schwartz , Sanjay Puri

This article reports the modeling of inertial rotational Brownian motion as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process evolving on the cotangent bundle of the rotation group, SO(3). The benefit of this approach and the use of a different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-14 Amitesh S. Jayaraman , Jikai Ye , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Anomalous diffusion is an established phenomenon but still a theoretical challenge in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Physical models are built incrementally, and the most recent and most general family is based on the fractional…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Christian Bender , Yana A. Butko , Mirko D'Ovidio , Gianni Pagnini

The stochastic dynamics of an active particle undergoing a constant speed and additionally driven by an overall fluctuating torque is investigated. The random torque forces are expressed by a stochastic differential equation for the angular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-22 Christian Weber , Paul K. Radtke , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Peter Hänggi

We present a field theoretic approach to capture the motion of a particle with dry friction for one- and two-dimensional diffusive particles, and further expand the framework for two-dimensional active Brownian particles. Starting with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-18 Ziluo Zhang , Shurui Yuan , Shigeyuki Komura

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

In this study, we investigate the behavior of free inertial Active Brownian Particles (ABP) in the presence of thermal noise. While finding a closed-form solution for the joint distribution of positions, orientations, and velocities using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-08 Manish Patel , Debasish Chaudhuri

We study the dynamics of an overdamped Brownian particle in a thermal bath that contains a dilute solution of active particles. The particle moves in a harmonic potential and experiences Poisson shot-noise kicks with specified amplitude…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-18 Costantino Di Bello , Rita Majumdar , Rahul Marathe , Ralf Metzler , Edgar Roldan

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with stationary, long-time correlated increments and is frequently used to model anomalous diffusion processes. We study numerically fractional Brownian motion confined to a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-22 T. Guggenberger , G. Pagnini , T. Vojta , R. Metzler

We study the diffusive dynamics of a Brownian particle in proximity of a flat surface under non-equilibrium conditions, which are created by an anisotropic thermal environment with different temperatures being active along distinct spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Stefano Bo , Ralf Eichhorn

The non-thermal nature of self-propelling colloids offers new insights into non-equilibrium physics. The central mathematical model to describe their trajectories is active Brownian motion, where a particle moves with a constant speed,…

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with long-range correlations in time; it has been shown to be a useful model of anomalous diffusion. Here, we investigate the effects of mutual interactions in an ensemble of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-15 Jonathan House , Rashad Bakhshizada , Skirmantas Janušonis , Ralf Metzler , Thomas Vojta

We study the stochastic motion of particles driven by long-range correlated fractional Gaussian noise in a superharmonic external potential of the form $U(x)\propto x^{2n}$ ($n\in\mathbb{N}$). When the noise is considered to be external,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-17 Tobias Guggenberger , Aleksei Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

We provide an analytical solution for the time-dependent Fokker-Planck equation for a two-dimensional active Brownian particle trapped in an isotropic harmonic potential. Using the passive Brownian particle as basis states we show that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-11 Michele Caraglio , Thomas Franosch

Typically, in the description of active Brownian particles, a constant effective propulsion force is assumed, which is then subjected to fluctuations in orientation and translation leading to a persistent random walk with an enlarged…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-28 Sonja Babel , Borge ten Hagen , Hartmut Löwen

Active matter systems under confinement display persistent surface motion and a strong boundary affinity. However, despite extensive studies of their positional dynamics, much less attention has been given to the corresponding orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-21 Elsa Baby , Manoj Gopalakrishnan , Vishwas V. Vasisht

We study the statistical properties of overdamped particles driven by two cross-correlated multiplicative Gaussian white noises in a time-dependent environment. Using the Langevin and Fokker-Planck approaches, we derive the exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 S. I. Denisov , A. N. Vitrenko , W. Horsthemke , P. Hänggi

The diffusion properties of self-propelled particles which move at constant speed and, in addition, reverse their direction of motion repeatedly are investigated. The internal dynamics of particles triggering these reversal processes is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-05-30 Robert Großmann , Fernando Peruani , Markus Bär

Active particles exhibit self-propulsion, leading to transport behavior that differs fundamentally from passive Brownian motion. In confined or structured domains, activity strongly influence escape probabilities and first-passage behavior.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-27 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Zhiwei Peng