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We consider the unidirectional particle transport in a suspension of colloidal particles which interact with each other via a pair potential having a hard-core repulsion plus an attractive tail. The colloids are confined within a long…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-24 Andrey Pototsky , Andrew J. Archer , Sergey E. Savel'ev , Uwe Thiele , Fabio Marchesoni

A model of Brownian particles with the ability to take up energy from the environment, to store it in an internal depot, and to convert internal energy into kinetic energy of motion, is discussed. The general dynamics outlined in Sect. 2 is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benno Tilch , Frank Schweitzer , Werner Ebeling

We numerically investigate the ratchet transport of mixtures of active and passive particles in a transversal asymmetric channel.A big passive particle is immersed in a 'sea' of active particles. Due to the chirality of active particles,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-28 Bao-quan Ai

In this study, we describe the ratchet transport of particles under static asymmetric potential with periodicity. Ratchet transport has garnered considerable attention due to its potential for developing smart transport techniques on a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-11 Masayuki Hayakawa , Yusuke Kishino , Masahiro Takinoue

One of simplest examples of navigation found in nature is run-and-tumble chemotaxis. Tumbles reorient cells randomly, and cells can drift toward attractants or away from repellents by biasing the frequency of these events. The post-tumble…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-14 Julius B. Kirkegaard , Raymond E. Goldstein

We study the problem of a run and tumble particle in a harmonic trap, with a finite run and tumble time, by a direct integration of the equation of motion. An exact 1D steady state distribution, diagram laws and a programmable Volterra…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-17 Aoran Sun , Fangfu Ye , Rudolf Podgornik

We solve the problem of first-passage time for run-and-tumble particles in one dimension. Exact expression is derived for the mean first-passage time in the general case, considering external force-fields and chemotactic-fields, giving rise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-29 L. Angelani , R. Di Leonardo , M. Paoluzzi

We simulate by lattice Boltzmann the nonequilibrium steady states of run-and-tumble particles (inspired by a minimal model of bacteria), interacting by far-field hydrodynamics, subject to confinement. Under gravity, hydrodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-01 R. W. Nash , R. Adhikari , J. Tailleur , M. E. Cates

We study a minimal model of self-propelled particle in a crowded single-file environment. We extend classical models of exclusion processes (previously analyzed for diffusive and driven tracer particles) to the case where the tracer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Thibault Bertrand , Pierre Illien , Olivier Bénichou , Raphaël Voituriez

We demonstrate that a particle driven by a set of spatially uncorrelated, independent colored noise forces in a bounded, multidimensional potential exhibits rotations that are independent of the initial conditions. We calculate the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. W. Ghosh , S. V. Khare

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

Ratchet effects can appear for particles interacting with an asymmetric potential under ac driving or for a thermal system in which a substrate is periodically flashed. Here, we show that a new type of collective ratchet effect can arise…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-16 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Many active particles, both of biological and synthetic origin, can have a light controllable propulsion speed, a property that in biology is commonly referred to as photokinesis. Here we investigate directed transport of photokinetic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-05 Claudio Maggi , Luca Angelani , Giacomo Frangipane , Roberto Di Leonardo

We discuss the dynamics of a charged nonrelativistic particle in electromagnetic field of a rotating magnetized celestial body. The equations of motion of the particle are obtained and some particular solutions are found. Effective…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-08 V. Epp , M. A. Masterova

The extreme value statistics of active matter offer significant insight into their unique properties. A phase transition has recently been reported in a model of branching run-and-tumble particles, describing the spatial spreading of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-11 Bertrand Lacroix-A-Chez-Toine , Asaf Miron

We model an overdamped Brownian particle that is subject to resetting facilitated by a ratchet potential on a spatially periodic domain. This asymmetric potential switches on with a constant rate, but switches off again only upon the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-25 Connor Roberts , Emir Sezik , Eloise Lardet

When active matter particles such as swimming bacteria are placed in an asymmetric array of funnels, it has been shown that a ratchet effect can occur even in the absence of an external drive. Here we examine active ratchets for two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-06 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

We study the statistical properties of a non-Markovian chiral run-and-tumble particle (CRTP) in two dimensions in continuous space and time. In our model, the possible orientations of the particle correspond to the four cardinal directions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-13 Rahul Mallikarjun , Arnab Pal

Complex or hostile environments can sometimes inhibit the movement capabilities of diffusive particles or active swimmers, who may thus become stuck in fixed positions. This occurs, for example, in the adhesion of bacteria to surfaces at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-12 Luca Angelani

We consider an overdamped run-and-tumble particle in two dimensions, with self propulsion in an orientation that stochastically rotates by 90 degrees at a constant rate, clockwise or counter-clockwise with equal probabilities. In addition,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-18 Naftali R. Smith , Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr