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Many active particles are embedded in environments that exhibit viscoelastic properties. An important class of such media lacks a single characteristic relaxation timescale when subjected to a time-dependent stress. Rather, the stress…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 David Santiago Quevedo , Monica Conte , Marjolein Dijkstra , Cristiane Morais Smith

It is well known that path probabilities of Brownian motion correspond to the equilibrium configurational probabilities of flexible Gaussian polymers, while those of active Brownian motion correspond to in-extensible semiflexible polymers.…

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We consider a model of active Brownian particles with velocity-alignment in two spatial dimensions with passive and active fluctuations. Hereby, active fluctuations refers to purely non-equilibrium stochastic forces correlated with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Grossmann , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Pawel Romanczuk

We develop a kinetic theory of Brownian particles with long and short range interactions. We consider both overdamped and inertial models. In the overdamped limit, the evolution of the spatial density is governed by the generalized mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Hydrodynamically interacting active particles in an external harmonic potential form a self-assembled fluid pump at large enough P\'eclet numbers. Here, we give a quantitative criterion for the formation of the pump and show that particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 Marc Hennes , Katrin Wolff , Holger Stark

The dynamics of Brownian motion has widespread applications extending from transport in designed micro-channels up to its prominent role for inducing transport in molecular motors and Brownian motors. Here, Brownian transport is studied in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-18 P. S. Burada , G. Schmid , P. Talkner , P. Hänggi , D. Reguera , J. M. Rubí

Rectification of interacting Brownian particles is investigated in a two-dimensional asymmetric channel in the presence of an external periodic driving force. The periodic driving force can break the thermodynamic equilibrium and induces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-19 Narender Khatri , P. S. Burada

Magnetic nanoparticles are useful in many medical applications because they interact with biology on a cellular level thus allowing microenvironmental investigation. An enhanced understanding of the dynamics of magnetic particles may lead…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-26 Daniel B Reeves , John B Weaver

We investigate the dynamics of an inertial active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle suspended in a non-Markovian environment. The particle is additionally subjected to external forces, such as harmonic confinement and a magnetic field. Motivated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-15 Sanju S Pillai , M Muhsin , M Sahoo

By now active Brownian motion is a well-established model to describe the motion of mesoscopic self-propelled particles in a Newtonian fluid. On the basis of the generalized Langevin equation, we present an analytic framework for active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-13 Alexander R. Sprenger , Christian Bair , Hartmut Löwen

We analyse the angular dynamics of a neutrally buoyant nearly spherical particle immersed in a steady general linear flow. The hydrodynamic torque acting on the particle is obtained by means of a reciprocal theorem, regular perturbation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-29 F. Candelier , J. Einarsson , F. Lundell , B. Mehlig , J. -R. Angilella

We look at the equilibrium of a Brownian particle in an inhomogeneous space following the alternative approach proposed in ref.[1]. We consider a coordinate dependent damping that makes the stochastic dynamics the one with multiplicative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-07 Avik Biswas , A. Bhattacharyay

The orientational dynamics of weakly inertial axisymmetric particles in a steady flow is investigated. We derive an asymptotic equation of motion for the unit axial vector along the particle symmetry axis, valid for small Stokes number St,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-22 J. Einarsson , J. R. Angilella , B. Mehlig

We present a predictive local field theory for the nonequilibrium dynamics of interacting active Brownian particles with a spherical shape in two spatial dimensions. The theory is derived by a rigorous coarse-graining starting from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-26 Jens Bickmann , Raphael Wittkowski

We analyze the translational and rotational motion of an ellipsoidal Brownian particle from the viewpoint of stochastic thermodynamics. The particle's Brownian motion is driven by external forces and torques and takes place in an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-19 Raffaele Marino , Ralf Eichhorn , Erik Aurell

Active colloidal particles that are propelled by a self-diffusiophoretic mechanism are often described by Langevin equations that are either postulated on physical grounds or derived using the methods of fluctuating hydrodynamics. While…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Bryan Robertson , Jeremy Schofield , Pierre Gaspard , Raymond Kapral

The identification of cells and particles based on their transport properties in microfluidic devices is crucial for numerous applications in biology and medicine. Neutrally buoyant particles transported in microfluidic channels, migrate…

We computationally study the behavior of underdamped active Brownian particles in a sheared channel geometry. Due to their underdamped dynamics, the particles carry momentum a characteristic distance away from the boundary before it is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-23 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

Many self-propelled objects are large enough to exhibit inertial effects but still suffer from environmental fluctuations. The corresponding basic equations of motion are governed by active Langevin dynamics which involve inertia, friction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-08 Alexander R. Sprenger , Soudeh Jahanshahi , Alexei V. Ivlev , Hartmut Löwen

An asymmetric Brownian particle subjected to an external time-dependent force may acquire a net drift velocity, and thus operate as a motor or ratchet, even if the external force is represented by an unbiased time-periodic function or by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 A. V. Plyukhin