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Active filaments, such as microtubules with attached cargo-carrying motor proteins, are important dynamic structures for fluid transport in and around living cells. The mathematical models of active filaments appearing in the literature…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-19 Ilteber R. Ozdemir , Bethany Clarke , Yongyun Hwang , Eric E. Keaveny

We explore the dependence of the thermally activated barrier crossing rate on various model parameters for a dimer that undergoes a Brownian motion on a piecewise linear bistable potential employing the method of adiabatic elimination of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-15 Mesfin Asfaw

Active solids emerge from self-actuating components interacting with each other to form crystalline patterns. In equilibrium, commensurability underpins our understanding of nanoscale friction and particle-level dynamics of crystals.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-09 Abraham Mauleon-Amieva , Tanniemola B. Liverpool , Ian Williams , Anton Souslov , C. Patrick Royall

It is often desirable to know the controlling mechanism of survival probability of nano - or microscale particles in small cavities such as, e.g., confined submicron particles in fiber beds of high-efficiency filter media or ions/small…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-29 Shubhadip Nayak , Tanwi Debnath , Shovan Das , Debajyoti Debnath , Pulak K. Ghosh

We study motion of tagged particles in a harmonic chain of active particles. We consider three models of active particle dynamics - run and tumble particle, active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle and active Brownian particle. We investigate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-14 Prashant Singh , Anupam Kundu

A simple model for simulating flows of active suspensions is investigated. The approach is based on dissipative particle dynamics. While the model is potentially applicable to a wide range of self-propelled particle systems, the specific…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-08 Denis F. Hinz , Alexander Panchenko , Tae-Yeon Kim , Eliot Fried

Relaxation phenomena in glasses can be related to jump processes between different minima of the potential energy in the configuration space. These transitions play a key role in the low temperature regime, giving rise to tunneling systems…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Claudio Brangian , Oreste Pilla , Gabriele Viliani

Active particles with their characteristic feature of self-propulsion are regarded as the simplest models for motility in living systems. The accumulation of active particles in low activity regions has led to the general belief that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-26 Hidde D. Vuijk , Holger Merlitz , Michael Lang , Abhinav Sharma , Jens-Uwe Sommer

We present a theoretical framework that enables investigating rare transitions in a general model of an active particle in an external potential, with the thermal Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Particle (AOUP) appearing as a special case. Using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-20 Vito Seinen , Peter G. Bolhuis , Daan Crommelin , Sara Jabbari Farouji , Michel Mandjes

We present a theory for the interaction between active particles and a passive flexible membrane. By explicitly solving for the pressure exerted by the active particles, we show that they reduce the membrane tension and bending modulus and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-22 David A. King , Thomas P. Russell , Ahmad K. Omar

We study the transport properties of a system of active particles moving at constant speed in an heterogeneous two-dimensional space. The spatial heterogeneity is modeled by a random distribution of obstacles, which the active particles…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 Oleksandr Chepizhko , Fernando Peruani

We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum jumps in a one-dimensional chain of atoms. Each atom is driven on a strong transition to a short-lived state and on a weak transition to a metastable state. We choose the metastable state to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-25 Tony E. Lee , M. C. Cross

Group-based reinforcement can induce discontinuous transitions from inactive to active phases in higher-order contagion models. However, these results are typically obtained on static interaction structures or within mean-field…

Cyclic transitions between active and passive states are central to many natural and synthetic systems, ranging from light-driven active particles to animal migrations. Here, we investigate a minimal model of self-propelled Brownian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-28 Ye Zhang , Duanduan Wan

The presence of multiple stable states and associated nonlinear phenomena, such as hysteresis, in multistable mechanical metamaterials enables frequency-independent energy harvesting and shock absorption. This study focuses on shock…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-16 Sneha Srikanth , Andres F. Arrieta

Studies of active matter, from molecular assemblies to animal groups, have revealed two broad classes of behavior: a tendency to align yields orientational order and collective motion, whereas particle repulsion leads to self-trapping and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-23 Jie Zhang , Ricard Alert , Jing Yan , Ned S. Wingreen , Steve Granick

Using numerical simulations, we characterized the behavior of an elastic membrane immersed in an active fluid. Our findings reveal a nontrivial folding and re-expansion of the membrane that is controlled by the interplay of its resistance…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-24 S. A. Mallory , C. Valeriani , A. Cacciuto

We consider a nonlinear oscillator with state-dependent time-delay that displays a countably infinite number of nested limit cycle attractors, \emph{i.e.} megastability. In the low-memory regime, the equation reduces to a self-excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Álvaro G. López , Rahil N. Valani

We evaluate the steady-state distribution and escape rate for an Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Particle (AOUP) using methods from the theory of large deviations. The calculation is carried out both for small and large memory times of the active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 Eric Woillez , Yariv Kafri , Vivien Lecomte

We explore the dynamics of a tracer in an active particle harmonic chain, investigating the influence of interactions. Our analysis involves calculating mean-squared displacements (MSD) and space-time correlations through Green's function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Subhajit Paul , Abhishek Dhar , Debasish Chaudhuri