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We propose a model for the motion of a single active particle in a heterogeneous environment where the heterogeneity may arise due to the crowding, conformational fluctuations and/or slow rearrangement of the surroundings. Describing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-04 Koushik Goswami , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

We investigate how the competing presence of a nonuniform motility landscape and an external confining field affects the properties of active particles. We employ the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP) model with a periodic swim…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-02 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen

In the last decade, the study of pressure in active matter has attracted growing attention due to its fundamental relevance to nonequilibrium statistical physics. Active matter systems are composed of particles that consume energy to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-14 Guo Yu , Ruiyao Li , Fukang Li , Jiayu Zhang , Xiyue Li , Zequ Chen , Joscha Mecke , Yongxiang Gao

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

Active biological systems reside far from equilibrium, dissipating heat even in their steady state, thus requiring an extension of conventional equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. In this Letter, we have extended the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-22 Dibyendu Mandal , Katherine Klymko , Michael R. DeWeese

Using the path integral representation of the non-equilibrium dynamics, we compute the most probable path between arbitrary starting and final points, followed by an active particle driven by persistent noise. We focus our attention on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-15 Andrea Crisanti , Matteo Paoluzzi

We study an interacting high-density one-dimensional system of self-propelled particles described by the Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP) model where, even in the absence of alignment interactions, velocity and energy domains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Recent years have seen a rapid increase of interest in dense active materials, which, in the disordered state, share striking similarities with conventional passive glass-forming matter. For such passive glassy materials, it is well…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-13 Vincent E. Debets , Liesbeth M. C. Janssen

Identifying the full entropy production of active particles is a challenging task. We introduce a microscopic, thermodynamically consistent model, which leads to active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck statistics in the continuum limit. Our minimal model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-15 Jonas H. Fritz , Udo Seifert

It is well known that path probabilities of Brownian motion correspond to the equilibrium configurational probabilities of flexible Gaussian polymers, while those of active Brownian motion correspond to in-extensible semiflexible polymers.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-14 Amir Shee , Abhishek Dhar , Debasish Chaudhuri

We introduce and characterize different models for an active quantum particle where activity arises from engineered dissipation-- specifically, from a suitably coupled nonequilibrium environment. These include a model of a particle moving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Jeanne Gipouloux , Matteo Brunelli , Leticia Cugliandolo , Rosario Fazio , Marco Schirò

Combining experiments on active colloids, whose propulsion velocity can be controlled via a feedback loop, and theory of active Brownian motion, we explore the dynamics of an overdamped active particle with a motility that depends…

We investigate the influence of an external magnetic field (torque) on the motion of Brownian particles confined in a channel geometry with varying width. Furthermore, the particles are driven by random fluctuations modeled by the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-05-10 Paul K. Radtke , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

We investigate a one-dimensional model of active motion, which takes into account the effects of persistent self-propulsion through a memory function in a dissipative-like term of the generalized Langevin equation for particle swimming…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-25 Francisco J. Sevilla , Rosalío F. Rodríguez , Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano

An $N$-particle system with stochastic interactions is considered. Interactions are driven by a Brownian noise term and total energy conservation is imposed. The evolution of the system, in velocity space, is a diffusion on a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-16 Bruno Vieira Ribeiro , Yves Elskens

Nonreciprocal interactions are known to produce distinctive dynamics in active matter. To shed light on how the stationary state of such systems is affected by breaking reciprocity, we consider active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles coupled…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-16 Matthew Du , Andriy Goychuk , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

We characterise the nonequilibrium stationary state of a generic multivariate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process involving $N$ degrees of freedom. The irreversibility of the process is encoded in the antisymmetric part of the Onsager matrix. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-19 Claude Godrèche , Jean-Marc Luck

We revisit the elementary problem of moving a particle in a harmonic trap in finite time with minimal work cost, and extend it to the case of an active particle. By comparing the Gaussian case of an Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-16 Janik Schüttler , Rosalba Garcia-Millan , Michael E. Cates , Sarah A. M. Loos

We identify generic protocols achieving optimal power extraction from a single active particle subject to continuous feedback control under the assumption that its spatial trajectory, but not its instantaneous self-propulsion force, is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-08 Luca Cocconi , Jacob Knight , Connor Roberts

Understanding stochastic thermodynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) system has been an important topic in very recent years. In this article we study a general model of active Brownian particle systems by introducing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-11 Zhiyu Cao , Jie Su , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou