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When it comes to active particles, even an ideal-gas model in a harmonic potential poses a mathematical challenge. An exception is a run-and-tumble model (RTP) in one-dimension for which a stationary distribution is known exactly. The case…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-25 Derek Frydel

We consider a particle undergoing run and tumble dynamics, in which its velocity stochastically reverses, in one dimension. We study the addition of a Poissonian resetting process occurring with rate $r$. At a reset event the particle's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-05 Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar

We study $N$ run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) in one dimension interacting via a double-well potential $W(r)=-k_0 \, r^2/2+g \, r^4/4$, which is repulsive at short interparticle distance $r$ and attractive at large distance. At large time,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-26 Léo Touzo , Pierre Le Doussal

We study two interacting identical run and tumble particles (RTP's) in one dimension. Each particle is driven by a telegraphic noise, and in some cases, also subjected to a thermal white noise with a corresponding diffusion constant $D$. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-05 Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

We propose a model of run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) on a line with a fertile site at the origin. After going through the fertile site, a run-and-tumble particle gives rise to new particles until it flips direction. The process of creation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-11 Pascal Grange , Xueqi Yao

Active matter concerns the self-organization of energy consuming elements such as motile bacteria or self-propelled colloids. A canonical example is an active Brownian particle (ABP) that moves at constant speed while its direction of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-21 Paul C Bressloff

We study the first hitting time statistics between a one-dimensional run-and-tumble particle and a target site that switches intermittently between visible and invisible phases. The two-state dynamics of the target is independent of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer

We study the transport of self-propelled particles in dynamic complex environments. To obtain exact results, we introduce a model of run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) moving in discrete time on a $d$-dimensional cubic lattice in the presence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-12 Thibault Bertrand , Yongfeng Zhao , Olivier Bénichou , Julien Tailleur , Raphaël Voituriez

We investigate the statistics of encounters of a diffusing particle with different subsets of the boundary of a confining domain. The encounters with each subset are characterized by the boundary local time on that subset. We extend a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-14 Denis S. Grebenkov

We consider a run-and-tumble particle whose speed and tumbling rate are space-dependent on an infinite line. Unlike most of the previous work on such models, here we make the physical assumption that at large distances, these rates saturate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-10 Kavita Jain , Sakuntala Chatterjee

We present a general framework to study the distribution of the flux through the origin up to time $t$, in a non-interacting one-dimensional system of particles with a step initial condition with a fixed density $\rho$ of particles to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-06 Tirthankar Banerjee , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso , Gregory Schehr

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 investigate the statistical correlation between the first-reaction time of a diffusing particle and its boundary local time accumulated until the reaction event. Since the reaction event occurs after multiple encounters of the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-04 Yilin Ye , Denis S. Grebenkov

We characterize collective diffusion of hardcore run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) by explicitly calculating the bulk-diffusion coefficient $D(\rho, \gamma)$ in two minimal models on a $d$ dimensional periodic lattice for arbitrary density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-12 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Punyabrata Pradhan

In this review, we present the encounter-based approach to target search problems, in which the diffusive dynamics is described by the joint probability of the position of the particle and the number of its encounters with a given target…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-16 Denis S. Grebenkov

We study the steady-state distribution function of a run-and-tumble particle evolving around a repulsive hard spherical obstacle. We show that the well-documented activity-induced attraction translates into a delta peak accumulation at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-01 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Frédéric van Wijland

We study the effect of stochastic resetting on a run and tumble particle (RTP) in two spatial dimensions. We consider a resetting protocol which affects both the position and orientation of the RTP: with a constant rate the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-30 Ion Santra , Urna Basu , Sanjib Sabhapandit

A probabilistic framework for studying single-particle diffusion in partially absorbing media has recently been developed in terms of an encounter-based approach. The latter computes the joint probability density (generalized propagator)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-12 Paul C Bressloff

Consider a massive (inert) particle impinged from above by N Brownian particles that are instantaneously reflected upon collision with the inert particle. The velocity of the inert particle increases due to the influence of an external…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-28 Sayan Banerjee , Amarjit Budhiraja , Benjamin Estevez

We derive the exact nonequilibrium steady state of a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in $d$ dimensions confined in an isotropic harmonic trap $V(\mathbf r)=\mu r^{2}/2$, with $r=\|\mathbf r\|$. Rotational invariance reduces the problem to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-10 Mathis Guéneau , Satya N. Majumdar , Grégory Schehr