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The escape dynamics of sticky particles from textured surfaces is poorly understood despite importance to various scientific and technological domains. In this work, we address this challenge by investigating the escape time of adsorbates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-15 Yuval Scher , Shlomi Reuveni , Denis S. Grebenkov

We study a class of interacting particle systems on $\mathbb{R}$ with two types. Particles evolve by independent jumps sampled from a fixed distribution, with type-dependent jump rates $v_+$, $v_-$ and stochastic type switching driven by…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Sayan Banerjee , Andrew Nguyen

Many-particle effects in escapes of hard disks from a square box via a hole are discussed in a viewpoint of dynamical systems. Starting from $N$ disks in the box at the initial time, we calculate the probability $P_{n}(t)$ for at least $n$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-30 Tooru Taniguchi , Hiroki Murata , Shin-ichi Sawada

We investigate the dynamics of two interacting diffusing particles in an infinite effectively one dimensional system; the particles interact through a step-like potential of width b and height phi_0 and are allowed to pass one another. By…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Tobias Ambjornsson , Robert J. Silbey

The dynamics of active particles is of interest at many levels and is the focus of theoretical and experimental research. There have been many attempts to describe the dynamics of particles affected by random active forces in terms of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Dan Wexler , Nir S. Gov , Kim Ø. Rasmussen , Golan Bel

We study the dynamics of an active Brownian particle with a nonlinear friction function located in a spatial cubic potential. For strong but finite damping, the escape rate of the particle over the spatial potential barrier shows a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-02 P. S. Burada , B. Lindner

We study dynamics of clustering in systems containing active particles that are immersed in an explicit solvent. For this purpose we have adopted a hybrid simulation method, consisting of molecular dynamics and multi-particle collision…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-01 Arabinda Bera , Soudamini Sahoo , Snigdha Thakur , Subir K. Das

We consider an infinite system of particles on the positive real line, initiated from a Poisson point process, which move according to Brownian motion up until the hitting time of a barrier. The barrier increases when it is hit, allowing…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Thomas Blore , D. G. M Flynn , Ben Hambly

We analyze the fluctuation-driven escape of particles from a metastable state under the influence of a weak periodic force. We develop an asymptotic method to solve the appropriate Fokker-Planck equation with mixed natural and absorbing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-14 W. Moon , N. J. Balmforth , J. S. Wettlaufer

Stochastic particle--based models are useful tools for describing the collective movement of large crowds of pedestrians in crowded confined environments. Using descriptions based on the simple exclusion process, two populations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Matteo Colangeli , Adrian Muntean , T. K. Thoa Thieu

Microscopic swimming particles, which dissipate energy to execute persistent directed motion, are a classic example of a non-equilibrium system. We investigate the non-interacting Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Particle (OUP), which is propelled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-09 Cato Sandford , Alexander Y. Grosberg , Jean-François Joanny

We introduce and investigate a new model of a finite number of particles jumping forward on the real line. The jump lengths are independent of everything, but the jump rate of each particle depends on the relative position of the particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Marton Balazs , Miklos Z. Racz , Balint Toth

The area of stochastic heat engines using active particles has attracted a lot of attention recently. They have been shown to exhibit advantages over engines using passive particles. In this work, we use multiple self-propelling particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-25 Aradhana Kumari , Md Samsuzzaman , Arnab Saha , Sourabh Lahiri

In the open circular billiard particles are placed initially with a uniform distribution in their positions inside a planar circular vesicle. They all have velocities of the same magnitude, whose initial directions are also uniformly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. F. Stilck

We study numerically a model of non-aligning self-propelled particles interacting through steric repulsion, which was recently shown to exhibit active phase separation in two dimensions in the absence of any attractive interaction or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-03 Yaouen Fily , Silke Henkes , M. Cristina Marchetti

We consider the facilitated exclusion process, an interacting particle system on the integer line where particles hop to one of their left or right neighbouring site only when the other neighbouring site is occupied by a particle. A…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Guillaume Barraquand , Oriane Blondel , Marielle Simon

We study various models of independent particles hopping between energy `traps' with a density of energy barriers $\rho(E)$, on a $d$ dimensional lattice or on a fully connected lattice. If $\rho(E)$ decays exponentially, a true dynamical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Cécile Monthus , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Systems composed of strongly interacting self-propelled particles can form a spontaneously flowing polar active fluid. The study of the connection between the microscopic dynamics of a single such particle and the macroscopic dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Benjamin Loewe , Anton Souslov , Paul M. Goldbart