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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

We analytically investigate the diffusive motion inferred from experimental observations of active particles driven by quantum vortices on the surface of superfluid helium. We first study the dynamical behavior of an active particle subject…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yun Jeong Kang , Sung Kyu Seo , Kyungsik Kim

Due to its inherent intertwinement with irreversibility, entropy production is a prime observable to monitor in systems of active particles. In this numerical study, entropy production in the liquid, hexatic and solid phases of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-11 Massimiliano Semeraro , Giuseppe Negro , Antonio Suma , Federico Corberi , Giuseppe Gonnella

Many active particles are embedded in environments that exhibit viscoelastic properties. An important class of such media lacks a single characteristic relaxation timescale when subjected to a time-dependent stress. Rather, the stress…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 David Santiago Quevedo , Monica Conte , Marjolein Dijkstra , Cristiane Morais Smith

We investigate proteins within heterogeneous cell membranes where non-equilibrium phenomena arises from spatial variations in concentration and temperature. We develop simulation methods building on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-28 D. Jasuja , P. J. Atzberger

Escape of active agents from metastable states is of great interest in statistical and biological physics. In this study, we investigate the escape of a flexible active ring, composed of active Brownian particles, from a flat attractive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-21 Bin Tang , Jin-cheng Gao , Kang Chen , Tian Hui Zhang , Wen-de Tian

We study the two-dimensional motion of an active Brownian particle of speed $v_0$, with intermittent directional reversals in the presence of a harmonic trap of strength $\mu$. The presence of the trap ensures that the position of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Ion Santra , Urna Basu , Sanjib Sabhapandit

We study the problem of a Brownian particle diffusing in finite dimensions in a potential given by $\psi= \phi^2/2$ where $\phi$ is Gaussian random field. Exact results for the diffusion constant in the high temperature phase are given in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Touya , D. S. Dean

Density-dependent diffusion is a widespread phenomenon in nature. We have examined the density-dependent diffusion behavior of some biological processes such as tumor growth and invasion [23]. Here, we extend our previous work by developing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-14 Ahmed M. Fouad , Marwa M. Fouad

We investigate the full pair-distribution function of a homogeneous suspension of spherical active Brownian particles interacting by a Weeks-Chandler-Andersen potential in two spatial dimensions. The full pair-distribution function depends…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-18 Julian Jeggle , Joakim Stenhammar , Raphael Wittkowski

We investigate the non-equilibrium large deviations function of the particle densities in two steady-state driven systems exchanging particles at a vanishing rate. We first derive through a systematic multi-scale analysis the coarse-grained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Jules Guioth , Éric Bertin

Brownian motion in a granular gas in a homogeneous cooling state is studied theoretically and by means of molecular dynamics. We use the simplest first-principle model for the impact-velocity dependent restitution coefficient, as it follows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Anna Bodrova , Awadhesh Kumar Dubey , Sanjay Puri , Nikolai Brilliantov

We study the single particle velocity distribution for a granular fluid of inelastic hard spheres or disks, using the Enskog-Boltzmann equation, both for the homogeneous cooling of a freely evolving system and for the stationary state of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. C. van Noije , M. H. Ernst

In this work, we investigate the dynamics of the number density fluctuations of a dilute suspension of active particles in a linear viscoelastic fluid. We propose a model for the frequency-dependent diffusion coefficient of the active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-08 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Rosalio F. Rodriguez , Elizabeth Salinas-Rodriguez

We consider an overdamped particle with a general physical mechanism that creates noisy active movement (e.g., a run-and-tumble particle or active Brownian particle etc.), that is confined by an external potential. Focusing on the limit in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-23 Naftali R. Smith

Active matter is rapidly becoming a key paradigm of out-of-equilibrium soft matter exhibiting complex collective phenomena, yet the thermodynamics of such systems remain poorly understood. In this letter we study the nonequilbrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-30 Emanuele Crosato , Mikhail Prokopenko , Richard E. Spinney

An isolated mixture of smooth, inelastic hard spheres supports a homogeneous cooling state with different kinetic temperatures for each species. This phenomenon is explored here by molecular dynamics simulation of a two component fluid,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steven R. Dahl , Christine M. Hrenya , Vicente Garzo , James W. Dufty

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) represent a minimal model of active matter consisting of self-propelled spheres with purely repulsive interactions and rotational noise. Here, we examine the pressure of ABPs in two dimensions in both closed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-11 Adam Patch , David Yllanes , M. Cristina Marchetti

We investigate collective behavior of a system of two-dimensional interacting Brownian particles in the hydrodynamic regime. By means of the Martin-Siggia-Rose-Jenssen-de Dominicis formalism, we built up a generating functional for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-10 Nathan O Silvano , Daniel G. Barci

Aiming to understand the distribution of fitness levels of individuals in a large population undergoing selection, we study the particle configurations of branching Brownian motion where each particle independently moves as Brownian motion…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Jiaqi Liu , Jason Schweinsberg