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A rigorous theory of diffraction scattering from extended objects is proposed. The present theory is based on a multiple asymptotic expansion of an integral equation for the exact wave function in terms of the large parameters of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-17 Gennady V. Kovalev

By means of the method of moving Frenet-Serret frame the set of equations of motion is derived for spinning particle in an arbitrary external field, which is determined by potential depending from both position and the state of movement, as…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-01-08 Alexander N. Tarakanov

We investigate the transport of particles in the chaotic component of phase space for a two-dimensional, area-preserving nontwist map. The survival probability for particles within the chaotic sea is described by an exponential decay for…

We expand the off-resonant scattering theory for particle diffusion in magnetized current filaments that can be typically compared to astrophysical jets, including active galactic nucleus jets. In a high plasma beta region where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mitsuru Honda , Yasuko S. Honda

We study the extreme value statistics of a run and tumble particle (RTP) in one dimension till its first passage to the origin starting from the position $x_0~(>0)$. This model has recently drawn a lot of interest due to its biological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-07 Prashant Singh , Saikat Santra , Anupam Kundu

The universal mechanism of trapping and localization of sufficiently slow-speed particles by a potential well deepening with time is established on the basis of fundamental relations of classical mechanics. Such wells may be created for a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 Azad Ch. Izmailov

Run-and-tumble processes successfully model several living systems. While studies have typically focused on particles with isotropic tumbles, recent examples exhibit "tumble-turns", in which particles undergo 90{\deg} tumbles and so possess…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-19 Benjamin Loewe , Tyler N. Shendruk

We investigate the motion of a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in one dimension. We find the exact probability distribution of the particle with and without diffusion on the infinite line, as well as in a finite interval. In the infinite…

A thorough analysis of the dynamics in a deterministic optical rocking ratchet (introduced in A. V. Arzola et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 168104 (2011)) and a comparison with experimental results are presented. The studied system consists of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-19 Alejandro V. Arzola , Karen Volke-Sepúlveda , José L. Mateos

We study the noise-driven escape of active Brownian particles (ABPs) and run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) from confining potentials. In the small noise limit, we provide an exact expression for the escape rate in term of a variational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-03 Eric Woillez , Yongfeng Zhao , Yariv Kafri , Vivien Lecomte , Julien Tailleur

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

Escherichia coli is a motile bacterium that moves up a chemoattractant gradient by performing a biased random walk composed of alternating runs and tumbles. Previous models of run and tumble chemotaxis neglect one or more features of the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-06-26 J. T. Locsei

We derive the fully time-dependent solution to a run-and-tumble model for a particle which has tumbling restricted to the boundaries of a one-dimensional interval. This is achieved through a field-theoretic perturbative framework by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-06 Connor Roberts , Gunnar Pruessner

We analyze possible motion control of microparticles by means of external electromagnetic fields which induce potential wells having fixed spatial distribution but deepening over time up to some limit. It is assumed that given particles are…

General Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 Azad Ch. Izmailov

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) that require contact of moving parts to implement complex functions exhibit limits to their performance and reliability. Here, we advance our particle tracking method to measure MEMS motion in operando…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Craig R. Copeland , Craig D. McGray , Jon Geist , Samuel M. Stavis

We study the acceleration of charged particles by ultra-relativistic shocks using test-particle Monte-Carlo simulations. Two field configurations are considered: (i) shocks with uniform upstream magnetic field in the plane of the shock, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-15 Zhi-Qiu Huang , Brian Reville , John G. Kirk , Gwenael Giacinti

The aim of the present article is to evaluate the motion of charged test particles in the vicinity of a near-extremal rotating black hole in the presence of magnetic fields. Euler-Lagrange motion equations and effective potential methods…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 C. H. Coimbra-Araújo , R. C. Anjos

We study the ratchet effect of a damped relativistic particle driven by both asymmetric temporal bi-harmonic and time-periodic piecewise constant forces. This system can be formally solved for any external force, providing the ratchet…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-11 Niurka R. Quintero , Renato Alvarez-Nodarse , José A. Cuesta

A theory of electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering by many small particles of an arbitrary shape is developed. The particles are perfectly conducting or impedance. For a small impedance particle of an arbitrary shape an explicit analytical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 A. G. Ramm

We study the transport of self-propelled noninteracting active Brownian particles (ABPs) and run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) in long tubes of varying widths. Using a moment expansion, we construct a generalized Fick-Jacobs framework for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-16 Yongfeng Zhao