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The run-and-tumble particle (RTP) is one of the simplest examples of an active particle in which the direction of constant motion randomly switches. In the one-dimensional (1D) case this means switching between rightward and leftward…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-26 Paul C Bressloff

We study the transport process of interacting Brownian particles in a tube of varying cross section. To describe this process we introduce a modified Fick-Jacobs equation, considering particles that interact through a hard-core potential.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Gonzalo Suárez , Miguel Hoyuelos , Héctor Mártin

We study a one-dimensional run-and-tumble particle (RTP), which is a prototypical model for active system, moving within an arbitrary external potential. Using backward Fokker-Planck equations, we derive the differential equation satisfied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-27 Mathis Guéneau , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

We explore the properties of run-and-tumble particles moving in a piecewise-linear "ratchet" potential by deriving analytic results for the system's steady-state probability density, current, entropy production rate, extractable power, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-01 Connor Roberts , Zigan Zhen

We discuss two-dimensional diffusion of a Brownian particle confined to a periodic asymmetric channel with soft walls modeled by a parabolic potential. In the channel, the particle experiences different noise intensities, or temperatures,…

The dynamics of Brownian motion has widespread applications extending from transport in designed micro-channels up to its prominent role for inducing transport in molecular motors and Brownian motors. Here, Brownian transport is studied in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-18 P. S. Burada , G. Schmid , P. Talkner , P. Hänggi , D. Reguera , J. M. Rubí

We analyze the dynamics of Brownian ratchets in a confined environment. The motion of the particles is described by a Fick-Jakobs kinetic equation in which the presence of boundaries is modeled by means of an entropic potential. The cases…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-23 Paolo Malgaretti , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , J. Miguel Rubi

Biased diffusive transport of Brownian particles through irregularly shaped, narrow confining quasi-one-dimensional structures is investigated. The complexity of the higher dimensional diffusive dynamics is reduced by means of the so-called…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-22 P. Sekhar Burada , Gerhard Schmid , Peter Hänggi

The transport of active particles may occur in complex environments, in which it emerges from the interplay between the mobility of the active components and the quenched disorder of the environment. Here we explore structural and dynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-31 Fergus J. Moore , John Russo Tanniemola B. Liverpool , C. Patrick Royall

In this paper we develop an encounter-based model of a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) confined to a finite interval $[0,L]$ with partially absorbing, sticky boundaries at both ends. We assume that the particle switches between two constant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-10 Paul C. Bressloff

Biological microswimmers often inhabit a porous or crowded environment such as soil. In order to understand how such a complex environment influences their spreading, we numerically study non-interacting active Brownian particles (ABPs) in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-06 Maria Zeitz , Holger Stark

We discuss escape problem with the consideration of both the activity of particles and the roughness of potentials. we derive analytic expressions for the escape rate of a Brownian particle (ABP) in two types of rough potentials by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-07 Yating Wang , Z. C. Tu

A diverse range of natural and artificial self-propelled particles are known and are used nowadays. Among them, active Brownian particles (ABPs) and run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) are two important classes. We numerically study…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-02 Maryam Khatami , Katrin Wolff , Oliver Pohl , Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi , Holger Stark

We study the transport of Brownian particles through a corrugated channel caused by a force field containing curl-free (scalar potential) and divergence-free (vector potential) parts. We develop a generalized Fick-Jacobs approach leading to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-03 S. Martens , A. V. Straube , G. Schmid , L. Schimansky-Geier , P. Hänggi

Run-and-tumble dynamics is a wide-spread mechanism of swimming bacteria. The accumulation of run-and-tumble microswimmers near impermeable surfaces is studied theoretically and numerically in the low-density limit in two and three spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-29 Jens Elgeti , Gerhard Gompper

Biased Brownian motion of point-size particles in a three-dimensional tube with smoothly varying cross-section is investigated. In the fashion of our recent work [Martens et al., PRE 83,051135] we employ an asymptotic analysis to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 Steffen Martens , Gerhard Schmid , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Peter Hänggi

In this study, we investigate the behavior of free inertial Active Brownian Particles (ABP) in the presence of thermal noise. While finding a closed-form solution for the joint distribution of positions, orientations, and velocities using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-08 Manish Patel , Debasish Chaudhuri

We study an active Brownian run-and-tumble particle (ABRTP) model, that consists of an active Brownian run state during which the active velocity of the particle diffuses on the unit circle, and a tumble state during which the active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-03 Aoran Sun , Da Wei , Yiyu Zhang , Fangfu Ye , Rudolf Podgornik

We analyze the entropy production in run-and-tumble models. After presenting the general formalism in the framework of the Fokker-Planck equations in one space dimension, we derive some known exact results in simple physical situations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-27 Matteo Paoluzzi , Andrea Puglisi , Luca Angelani

A colloidal suspension of active Brownian particles (ABPs) driven by controllable forces into directed or persistent motions can serve as a model for understanding the biological systems. Experiments and numerical simulations are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-27 Chong Shen , Lanfang Li , Zhiyu Jiang , H. Daneil Ou-Yang