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The paper addresses Brownian motion in the logarithmic potential with time-dependent strength, $U(x,t) = g(t) \log(x)$, subject to the absorbing boundary at the origin of coordinates. Such model can represent kinetics of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-29 Artem Ryabov , Ekaterina Berestneva , Viktor Holubec

In recent years, active Brownian particles have emerged as a prominent model system for comprehending the behaviors of active matter, wherein particles demonstrate self-propelled motion by harnessing energy from the surrounding environment.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-31 Cunyuan Jiang , Zihan Zheng , Yangrui Chen , Matteo Baggioli , Jie Zhang

Non-motile active matter exhibits a wide range of non-equilibrium collective phenomena yet examples are crucially lacking in the literature. We present a microscopic model inspired by the bacteria {\it Neisseria Meningitidis} in which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-21 Henry Alston , Andrew O. Parry , Raphaël Voituriez , Thibault Bertrand

We study the stochastic dynamics of a particle with two distinct motility states. Each one is characterized by two parameters: one represents the average speed and the other represents the persistence quantifying the tendency to maintain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-16 M. Reza Shaebani , Heiko Rieger

Active particles (i.e., self-propelled particles or called microswimmers), different from passive Brownian particles, possess more complicated translational and angular dynamics, which can generate a series of anomalous transport phenomena.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 Ze-Hao Chen , Zhi-Xi Wu

We reassess the "dispersionless transport regime" of Brownian particles in tilted periodic potentials. We show that the particles exhibit normal diffusive motion right after transitioning into the running state dragged by the constant bias…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-30 I. G. Marchenko , V. Yu. Aksenova , I. I. Marchenko , A. V. Zhiglo

We solve a model of sluggish stochastic motion in which a Brownian particle diffuses with a diffusion coefficient that decays algebraically with the distance to the origin, as $|x|^{-\alpha}$. Additionally, the particle resets with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-03 Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar

The molecular motion in heterogeneous media displays anomalous diffusion by the mean-squared displacement $\langle X^2(t) \rangle = 2 D t^\alpha$. Motivated by experiments reporting populations of the anomalous diffusion parameters $\alpha$…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yann Lanoiselée , Gianni Pagnini , Agnieszka Wyłomańska

We study a Brownian particle diffusing under a time-modulated stochastic resetting mechanism to a fixed position. The rate of resetting r(t) is a function of the time t since the last reset event. We derive a sufficient condition on r(t)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-18 Arnab Pal , Anupam Kundu , Martin R. Evans

We derive diffusion constants and martingales for senile random walks with the help of a time-change. We provide direct computations of the diffusion constants for the time-changed walks. Alternatively, the values of these constants can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-19 Wouter Kager

We consider an active Brownian particle moving in a disordered two-dimensional energy or motility landscape. The averaged mean-square-displacement (MSD) of the particle is calculated analytically within a systematic short-time expansion. As…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-03 Davide Breoni , Michael Schmiedeberg , Hartmut Löwen

Transport and dispersion of active particles in structured environments such as corrugated channels and porous media are important for the understanding of both natural and engineered active systems. Owing to their continuous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-16 Zhiwei Peng

We study the motion of a one-dimensional particle which reverses its direction of acceleration stochastically. We focus on two contrasting scenarios, where the waiting-times between two consecutive acceleration reversals are drawn from (i)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-22 Ion Santra , Durgesh Ajgaonkar , Urna Basu

$N$-Brownian bees is a branching-selection particle system in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in which $N$ particles behave as independent binary branching Brownian motions, and where at each branching event, we remove the particle furthest from the origin.…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Jacob Mercer

Microbial motion is typically analyzed by simplified models in which trajectories exhibit straight runs (perhaps with added Gaussian noise) followed by random, discrete tumbling events. We present the results of a statistical analysis of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Taylor Whitney , Thomas Solomon , Kevin Mitchell

Bacterial swarms display intriguing dynamical states like active turbulence. Using a hydrodynamic model we now show that such dense active suspensions manifest super-diffusion, via L\'evy walks, which masquerades as a crossover from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-15 Siddhartha Mukherjee , Rahul K. Singh , Martin James , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Using atomistic simulations, we investigate the dynamical behavior of magnetic skyrmions in dimer and trimer molecular crystal arrangements, as well as bipartite lattices at 3/2 and 5/2 fillings, under ac driving over a square array of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas

Combining extensive single particle tracking microscopy data of endogenous lipid granules in living fission yeast cells with analytical results we show evidence for anomalous diffusion and weak ergodicity breaking. Namely we demonstrate…

Brownian motion in one or more dimensions is extensively used as a stochastic process to model natural and engineering signals, as well as financial data. Most works dealing with multidimensional Brownian motion consider the different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-10 Michał Balcerek , Adrian Pacheco-Pozo , Agnieszka Wyłomanska , Krzysztof Burnecki , Diego Krapf

For refracted skew Brownian motion (skew Brownian motion with two-valued drift), adopting a perturbation approach we find expressions of its potential densities. As applications, we recover its transition density and study its long-time…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Zaniar Ahmadi , Xiaowen Zhou
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