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We study the steady-state distribution function of a run-and-tumble particle evolving around a repulsive hard spherical obstacle. We show that the well-documented activity-induced attraction translates into a delta peak accumulation at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-01 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Frédéric van Wijland

We study a one-dimensional mixture of active (run-and-tumble) particles and passive (Brownian) particles, with single-file constraint, in a sawtooth potential. The active particles experience a ratchet effect: this generates a current,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-01 Jean-François Derivaux , Robert L. Jack , Michael E. Cates

Chiral active Brownian particles (CABPs) are self-propelled agents with intrinsic rotational dynamics, giving rise to circular trajectories commonly observed in biological and synthetic microswimmers. Understanding how CABPs explore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Mingfeng Qiu , Zhiwei Peng

We present a particle separation mechanism which induces motion of particles of different sizes in opposite directions. The mechanism is based on the combined action of a driving force and an entropic rectification of the Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-10 D. Reguera , A. Luque , P. S. Burada , G. Schmid , J. M. Rubí , P. Hänggi

We consider an active run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in $d$ dimensions, starting from the origin and evolving over a time interval $[0,t]$. We examine three different models for the dynamics of the RTP: the standard RTP model with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-29 Francesco Mori , Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

We investigate a system of Brownian particles weakly bound by attractive parity-symmetric potentials that grow at large distances as $V(x) \sim |x|^\alpha$, with $0 < \alpha < 1$. The probability density function $P(x,t)$ at long times…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-24 Lucianno Defaveri , Eli Barkai , David A. Kessler

We study the motion of an overdamped particle connected to a thermal heat bath in the presence of an external periodic potential in one dimension. When we coarse-grain, i.e., bin the particle positions using bin sizes that are larger than…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-01 Lucianno Defaveri , Eli Barkai , David A. Kessler

A statistical thermodynamic approach of moving particles forming an elastic body is presented which leads to reveal molecular-mechanical properties of classical and nonextensive dynamical systems. We derive the Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Enrique Canessa

We elaborate and validate a generalization of the renowned transition-path-sampling algorithm for a paradigmatic model of active particles, namely the Run-and-Tumble particles. Notwithstanding the non-equilibrium character of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-20 Thomas Kiechl , Thomas Franosch , Michele Caraglio

We consider a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) with stochastic resetting confined to the half line $[0,\infty)$ with a sticky boundary at $x=0$. In the bulk the RTP tumbles at a constant rate $\alpha>0$ between velocity states $\pm v$ with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Paul C Bressloff , Samantha Linn

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

Recently we studied $N$ run-and-tumble particles in one dimension - which switch with rate $\gamma$ between driving velocities $\pm v_0$ - interacting via the long range 1D Coulomb potential (also called rank interaction), both in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-14 Léo Touzo , Pierre Le Doussal

In many practically important problems which rely on particles' transport in realistic corrugated channels, one is interested to know the probability that either of the extremities, (e.g., the one containing a chemically active site, or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-14 P. Malgaretti , T. Nizkaia , G. Oshanin

We consider active Brownian particles that intermittently switch between active and inactive states. Such behavior is ubiquitous at all scales, from bacteria to animals and in artificial active systems. We derive exact expressions for key…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-24 Fernando Peruani , Debasish Chaudhuri

We investigate the structural and dynamic properties of active Brownian particles (APs) confined within a soft annulus-shaped channel. Depending on the strength of the confinement and the P\'eclet number, we observe a novel re-entrant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-15 Timo Knippenberg , Ashreya Jayaram , Thomas Speck , Clemens Bechinger

We consider a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in one dimension, subjected to a telegraphic noise with a constant rate $\gamma$, and in the presence of an external confining potential $V(x) = \alpha |x|^p$ with $p \geq 1$. We compute the mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-25 Mathis Guéneau , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

The dynamics of active particles is of interest at many levels and is the focus of theoretical and experimental research. There have been many attempts to describe the dynamics of particles affected by random active forces in terms of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Dan Wexler , Nir S. Gov , Kim Ø. Rasmussen , Golan Bel

Accumulation at boundaries represents a widely observed phenomenon in active systems with implications for microbial ecology and engineering applications. To rationalize the underlying physics, we provide analytical predictions for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-13 Yanis Baouche , Mathis Guéneau , Christina Kurzthaler

The dynamics of inertial particles in turbulence is modelled and investigated by means of direct numerical simulation of an axisymmetrically expanding homogeneous turbulent strained flow. This flow can mimic the dynamics of particles close…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Chung-min Lee , Ármann Gylfason , Prasad Perlekar , Federico Toschi

We study interacting active Brownian particles (ABPs) with a space-dependent swim velocity via simulation and theory. We find that, although an equation of state exists, a mechanical equilibrium does not apply to ABPs in activity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-13 Adam Wysocki , Anil K. Dasanna , Heiko Rieger