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We investigate a two-dimensional system of interacting Active Brownian Particles. Using the Martin-Siggia-Rose-Janssen-de Dominicis formalism, we built up the generating functional for correlation functions. We study in detail the…

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A time-delayed response of individual living organisms to information exchanged within flocks or swarms leads to the emergence of complex collective behaviors. A recent experimental setup by (Khadka et al 2018 Nat. Commun. 9 3864),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-30 Daniel Geiss , Klaus Kroy , Viktor Holubec

We study numerically the motion of a one dimensional array of Brownian particles in a washboard potential, driven by an external stochastic force and interacting via short range repulsive forces. In particular, we investigate the role of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giulio Costantini , Fabio Cecconi , Umberto Marini-Bettolo-Marconi

We study the phase behavior of polar Active Brownian Particles moving in two-spatial dimensions and interacting through volume exclusion and velocity alignment. We combine particle-based simulations of the microscopic model with a simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-26 Elena Sese-Sansa , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Demian Levis

We use the system-plus-reservoir approach to study the dynamics of a system composed of two independent Brownian particles. We present an extension of the well-known model of a bath of oscillators which is capable of inducing an effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. S. Duarte , A. O. Caldeira

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

Experimental realizations of self-propelled colloidal Janus particles exploit the conversion of free energy into directed motion. One route are phoretic mechanisms that can be modeled schematically as the interconversion of two chemical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Thomas Speck

We study a model of Brownian particles which are pumped with energy by means of a non-linear friction function, for which different types are discussed. A suitable expression for a non-linear, velocity-dependent friction function is derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Udo Erdmann , Werner Ebeling , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Frank Schweitzer

Large-scale collective behavior in suspensions of many particles can be understood from the balance of statistical forces emerging beyond the direct microscopic particle interactions. Here we review some aspects of the collective forces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-19 Thomas Speck

We consider a charged Brownian gas under the influence of external and non uniform electric, magnetic and mechanical fields, immersed in a non uniform bath temperature. With the collision time as an expansion parameter, we study the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-01 R. E. Lagos , Tania P. Simões

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

In the last decade, the study of pressure in active matter has attracted growing attention due to its fundamental relevance to nonequilibrium statistical physics. Active matter systems are composed of particles that consume energy to…

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We study the Brownian motion of a single particle coupled to an external ac field in a two-dimensional random potential. We find that for small fields a large-scale vorticity pattern of the steady-state net currents emerges, a consequence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim A. Makeev , Imre Derényi , Albert-László Barabási

We use computer simulations to test a simple idea for mapping between long-time self diffusivities obtained from molecular and Brownian dynamics. The strategy we explore is motivated by the behavior of fluids comprising particles that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-25 Mark J. Pond , Jeffrey R. Errington , Thomas M. Truskett

The confliction between the stable interface in phase-separated active Brownian particles and its negative surface tension, obtained mechanically via the active pressure, has sparked considerable debate about the formula of active surface…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-06 Longfei Li , Zihao Sun , Mingcheng Yang

The two-dimensional Active Brownian Particles system is meant to be composed of hard disks, that show excluded volume interactions, usually simulated via molecular dynamics using pure repulsive potentials. We show that the softness of the…

Escape of active agents from metastable states is of great interest in statistical and biological physics. In this study, we investigate the escape of a flexible active ring, composed of active Brownian particles, from a flat attractive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-21 Bin Tang , Jin-cheng Gao , Kang Chen , Tian Hui Zhang , Wen-de Tian

We present an efficient method to perform overdamped Brownian dynamics simulations in external force fields and for particle interactions that include a hardcore part. The method applies to particle motion in one dimension, where it is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-23 Alexander P. Antonov , Sören Schweers , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass

We investigate the dynamics of Brownian particles in internal state- dependent symmetric and periodic potentials. Although no space or time symmetry of the Hamiltonian is broken, we show that directed transport can appear. We demonstrate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

We study systems of Brownian particles on the real line, which interact by splitting the local times of collisions among themselves in an asymmetric manner. We prove the strong existence and uniqueness of such processes and identify them…

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