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We study a self-propelled particle moving in a solvent with the active Ornstein Uhlenbeck dynamics in the underdamped regime to evaluate the influence of the inertia. We focus on the properties of potential-free and harmonically confined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

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

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

We investigate the transport feature of an inertial chiral active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle moving on a two-dimensional surface. Using both analytical approach and numerical simulations, we have exactly explored the transient and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-10 F Sahala , M Muhsin , M Sahoo

We study the dynamics of an inertial active Ornstein-Uhnlenbeck particle self-propelling in a confined harmonic well. The transport behaviour of the particle is investigated by analyzing the particle trajectories, steady state correlations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-28 N Arsha , K P Jepsin , M Sahoo

We explore the self-propulsion of an active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle with a non-linear velocity dependent friction. Using analytical approach and numerical simulation, we have exactly investigated the dynamical behaviour of the particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-15 N Arsha , M Sahoo

We consider an inertial active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle in an athermal bath. The particle is charged, constrained to move in a two-dimensional harmonic trap, and a magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the plane of motion. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 M Muhsin , M Sahoo

We explore the properties of run-and-tumble particles moving in a piecewise-linear "ratchet" potential by deriving analytic results for the system's steady-state probability density, current, entropy production rate, extractable power, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-01 Connor Roberts , Zigan Zhen

We demonstrate the operation of a quantum ratchet in the absence of dissipative processes within the observation time (Hamiltonian regime). An atomic rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate is exposed to a sawtooth-like optical lattice potential,…

We study the rectified transport of underdamped active noninteracting particles in an asymmetric periodic potential. It is found that the ratchet effect of active noninteracting particles occurs in a single direction (along the easy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-30 Bao-quan Ai , Feng-guo Li

Directed transport of interacting active (self-propelled)Brownian particles is numerically investigated in confined geometries (entropic barriers). The self-propelled velocity can break thermodynamical equilibrium and induce the directed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-12 Bao-quan Ai , Ya-feng He , Wei-rong Zhong

We study the dynamics of an over damped Brownian particle in a saw tooth potential in the presence of a temporal asymmetric driving force. We observe that in the deterministic limit, the transport coherence, which is determined by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-15 Mamata Sahoo , A M Jayannavar

A particle driven by active self-propulsion can be subject to inhomogeneous potential fields, steering its orientation and leading to confinement and eventual trapping. Analytical treatment of capture and/or release dynamics for general…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-19 Guangle Du , Fangfu Ye , Rudolf Podgornik

The underdamped Langevin equation of motion of a particle, in a symmetric periodic potential and subjected to a symmetric periodic forcing with mean zero over a period, with nonuniform friction, is solved numerically. The particle is shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-29 S. Saikia , Mangal C. Mahato

The present work studies a non-Markovian forced thermal ratchet model on an asymmetric periodic potential. The Brownian dynamics is described by a generalized Langevin equation with an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck-type friction memory kernel. We show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-14 O. Contreras-Vergara , N. Sánchez-Salas , I. Pérez Castillo , J. I. Jiménez-Aquino

Transport of tracer particles through mesh-like environments such as biological hydrogels and polymer matrices is ubiquitous in nature. These tracers could be passive, such as colloids or active (self-propelled), such as synthetic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-08 Praveen Kumar , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

Rectified transport of active ellipsoidal particles is numerically investigated in a two-dimensional asymmetric potential. The out-of-equilibrium condition for the active particle is an intrinsic property, which can break thermodynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-12 Bao-quan Ai , Jian-chun Wu

We study the dynamics of a self-propelled particle advected by a steady laminar flow. The persistent motion of the self-propelled particle is described by an active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We focus on the diffusivity properties of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-17 Lorenzo Caprini , Fabio Cecconi , Andrea Puglisi , Alessandro Sarracino

We investigate the influence of an external magnetic field (torque) on the motion of Brownian particles confined in a channel geometry with varying width. Furthermore, the particles are driven by random fluctuations modeled by the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-05-10 Paul K. Radtke , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

We investigate the dynamics of an inertial active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) particle in the presence of stochastic resetting. Using renewal approach, we compute the mean square displacement (MSD) and position probability distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-24 Uma Shankari , Mamata Sahoo
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