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We investigate the influence of a self-propelling, out-of-equilibrium active particle on generalized elastic systems, including flexible and semiflexible polymers, fluid membranes, and fluctuating interfaces, while accounting for…

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We study the two-dimensional overdamped motion of an active particle whose orientational dynamics is subject to fractional Brownian noise, whereas its position is affected by self-propulsion and Brownian fluctuations. From a Langevin-like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-21 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Francisco J. Sevilla

Active particles exhibit complex transport dynamics in flows through confined geometries such as channels or pores. In this work, we employ a generalized Taylor dispersion (GTD) theory to study the long-time dispersion behavior of active…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-13 Vhaskar Chakraborty , Pankaj Mishra , Mingfeng Qiu , Zhiwei Peng

The coupling between advection and diffusion in position space can often lead to enhanced mass transport compared to diffusion without flow. An important framework used to characterize the long-time diffusive transport in position space is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhiwei Peng

We derive the distribution of particle currents for a system of interacting active Brownian particles in the long time limit using large deviation theory and a weighted many body expansion. We find the distribution is non-Gaussian, except…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-19 Trevor GrandPre , David T. Limmer

Self-propelled particles, which convert energy into mechanical motion, exhibit inertia if they have a macroscopic size or move inside a gaseous medium, in contrast to micron-sized overdamped particles immersed in a viscous fluid. Here we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-08 G. H. Philipp Nguyen , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen

We discuss the response of continuous time random walks to an oscillating external field within the generalized master equation approach. We concentrate on the time dependence of the two first moments of the walker's displacements. We show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. M. Sokolov , J. Klafter

Shape asymmetry is the most abundant in nature and attracted great interest in recent research. The phenomenon is widely recognized: a free ellipsoidal Brownian particle displays anisotropic diffusion during short time intervals, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-10 Sudipta Mandal , Anirban Ghosh

We study the late time dynamics of a single active Brownian particle in two dimensions with speed $v_0$ and rotation diffusion constant $D_R$. We show that at late times $t\gg D_R^{-1}$, while the position probability distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-18 Urna Basu , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso , Gregory Schehr

We study analytically how noninteracting weakly active particles, for which passive Brownian diffusion cannot be neglected and activity can be treated perturbatively, distribute and behave near boundaries in various geometries. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-05 Michael Wang

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 study the transport properties of a system of active particles moving at constant speed in an heterogeneous two-dimensional space. The spatial heterogeneity is modeled by a random distribution of obstacles, which the active particles…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 Oleksandr Chepizhko , Fernando Peruani

We review theoretical models of individual motility as well as collective dynamics and pattern formation of active particles. We focus on simple models of active dynamics with a particular emphasis on nonlinear and stochastic dynamics of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Pawel Romanczuk , Markus Bär , Werner Ebeling , Benjamin Lindner , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

We study the large-time behaviour of Brownian particles moving through a viscous medium in a confined potential, and which are further subjected to position-dependent driving forces that are periodic in time. We focus on the case where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sreedhar B. Dutta , Mustansir Barma

Motivated by the goal of understanding the evolution of populations undergoing selection, we consider branching Brownian motion in which particles independently move according to one-dimensional Brownian motion with drift, each particle may…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Matthew I. Roberts , Jason Schweinsberg

We investigate the stochastic dynamics of an active particle moving at a constant speed under the influence of a fluctuating torque. In our model the angular velocity is generated by a constant torque and random fluctuations described as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Joerg Noetel , Igor M. Sokolov , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

The distribution of the initial short-time displacements of particles is considered for a class of classical systems under rather general conditions on the dynamics and with Gaussian initial velocity distributions, while the positions could…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. van Zon , E. G. D. Cohen

We numerically investigate the diffusive behavior of active Brownian particles in a two-dimensional confined channel filled with soft obstacles, whose softness is controlled by a parameter $K$. Here, active particles are subjected to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-22 Ankit Gupta , P. S. Burada

In this work, we study the dynamics of a single active Brownian particle, as well as the collective behavior of interacting active Brownian particles, in a fluctuating heterogeneous environment. We employ a variant of the diffusing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 S. M. J. Khadem , N. H. Siboni , S. H. L. Klapp

We carry out a comprehensive linear stability analysis of active Brownian particle systems around a constant homogeneous state. These scalar models, being important prototypes for the continuous description of active matter, are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Michele Coti Zelati , Lucas Ertzbischoff , David Gerard-Varet