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The diffusion of micro- and nanoswimmers in a fluid, confined within irregular structures that impose entropic barriers, is often modeled using overdamped active Brownian dynamics, where viscous effects are paramount and inertia is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-03 Narender Khatri , Vikas Sharma , Anton F. Burnet , Suneet Kumar Awasthi

Transport properties of particles in confining geometries show very specific characteristics as lateral drift, oscillatory movement between lateral walls or the deformation of flexible fibers. These dynamics result from viscous friction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-03 M. Bechert , J. Cappello , M. Daïeff , F. Gallaire , A. Lindner , C. Duprat

We study the first-passage-time (FPT) properties of an active Brownian particle under stochastic resetting to its initial configuration, comprising its position and orientation, to reach an absorbing wall in two dimensions. Coupling a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-04 Yanis Baouche , Christina Kurzthaler

We study a Langevin equation describing the stochastic motion of a particle in one dimension with coordinate $x$, which is simultaneously exposed to a space-dependent friction coefficient $\gamma(x)$, a confining potential $U(x)$ and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-12 Davide Breoni , Hartmut Löwen , Ralf Blossey

We numerically investigate the transport of a suspended overdamped Brownian particle which is driven through a two-dimensional rectangular array of circular obstacles with finite radius. Two limiting cases are considered in detail, namely,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-01-06 P. K. Ghosh , P. Hanggi , F. Marchesoni , S. Martens , F. Nori , L. Schimansky-Geier , G. Schmid

We study the position distribution of an active Brownian particle (ABP) in the presence of stochastic resetting in two spatial dimensions. We consider three different resetting protocols : (I) where both position and orientation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-20 Vijay Kumar , Onkar Sadekar , Urna Basu

We consider Brownian particles with the ability to take up energy from the environment, to store it in an internal depot, and to convert internal energy into kinetic energy of motion. Provided a supercritical supply of energy, these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frank Schweitzer , Benno Tilch , Werner Ebeling

We present an exact analytical study of an Active Brownian Particle (ABP) subject to both position and orientation stochastic resetting in a two-dimensional harmonic trap. Utilizing a Fokker-Planck-based renewal approach, we derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-21 Amir Shee

The connection between absorbing boundary conditions and hard walls is well established in the mathematical literature for a variety of stochastic models, including for instance the Brownian motion. In this paper we explore this duality for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-24 Mathis Guéneau , Léo Touzo

In active Brownian motion, an internal propulsion mechanism interacts with translational and rotational thermal noise and other internal fluctuations to produce directed motion. We derive the distribution of its extreme fluctuations and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Patrick Pietzonka , Kevin Kleinbeck , Udo Seifert

Active particles, which are self-propelled nonequilibrium systems, are modelled by overdamped Langevin equations with colored noise, emulating the self-propulsion. In this chapter, we present a review of the theoretical results for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-12 Urna Basu , Sanjib Sabhapandit , Ion Santra

The defining feature of active particles is that they constantly propel themselves by locally converting chemical energy into directed motion. This active self-propulsion prevents them from equilibrating with their thermal environment…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-26 Lennart Dabelow , Stefano Bo , Ralf Eichhorn

We study the stochastic dynamics of a two-dimensional particle assuming that the components of its position are two coupled random-acceleration processes evolving in a confining parabolic potential and are the subjects of independent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-13 Victor Dotsenko , Gleb Oshanin , Leonid Pastur , Pascal Viot

We numerically examine the driven transport of an overdamped self-propelled particle through a two-dimensional array of circular obstacles. A detailed analysis of transport quantifiers (mobility and diffusivity) has been performed for two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-16 Shubhadip Nayak , Sohom Das , Poulami Bag , Tanwi Debnath , Pulak K. Ghosh

One of the most promising features of active systems is that they can extract energy from their environment and convert it to mechanical work. Self propelled particles enable rectification when in contact with rigid boundaries. They can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-13 M. C. Gandikota , A. Cacciuto

Recent advances in micro- and nano-technologies allow the construction of complex active systems from biological and synthetic materials. An interesting example is active vesicles, which consist of a membrane enclosing self-propelled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Priyanka Iyer , Gerhard Gompper , Dmitry A. Fedosov

Motion in bounded domains is a fundamental concept in various fields, including billiard dynamics and random walks on finite lattices, with important applications in physics, ecology and biology. An important universal property related to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-27 Dario Javier Zamora , Roberto Artuso

The dynamics of an active walker in a harmonic potential is studied experimentally, numerically and theoretically. At odds with usual models of self-propelled particles, we identify two dynamical states for which the particle condensates at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-20 Olivier Dauchot , Vincent Démery

Self-propulsion in run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) generates effective attractive interactions that can drive motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), a phenomenon absent in passive systems. Here, we investigate RTPs in the presence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Abir Bhowmick , Sayantan Mitra , P. K. Mohanty

We derive the exact nonequilibrium steady state of a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in $d$ dimensions confined in an isotropic harmonic trap $V(\mathbf r)=\mu r^{2}/2$, with $r=\|\mathbf r\|$. Rotational invariance reduces the problem to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-10 Mathis Guéneau , Satya N. Majumdar , Grégory Schehr