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We study the Brownian dynamics and linear response of a particle with inertia moving in a 2-dimensional helical landscape imprinted on a cylindrical surface. In the harmonic well approximation, the deterministic motion separates into free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-25 Debankur Bhattacharyya , Abraham Nitzan

This article demonstrates that flexible and statistically tractable multi-modal diffusion models can be attained by transformation of simple well-known diffusion models such as the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model, or more generally a Pearson…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-04-04 Julie Forman , Michael Sørensen

A new "on the fly" method to perform Born-Oppenheimer ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) is presented. Inspired by Ehrenfest dynamics in time-dependent density functional theory, the electronic orbitals are evolved by a Schroedinger-like…

We use computer simulations to study the onset of collective motion in systems of interacting active particles. Our model is a swarm of active Brownian particles with internal energy depot and interactions inspired by the dissipative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-31 Vladimir Lobaskin , Maksym Romenskyy

The mean first passage time (MFPT) is a key metric for understanding transport, search, and escape processes in stochastic systems. While well characterized for passive Brownian particles, its behavior in active systems-such as active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-22 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Zhiwei Peng

The diffusion behavior of an active Brownian particle (ABP) in polymer solutions is studied using Langevin dynamics simulations. We find that the long time diffusion coefficient $D$ can show a non-monotonic dependence on the particle size…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-11 Yunfei Du , Zhonghuai Hou

An Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process can be considered as a continuous time interpolation of the discrete time AR$(1)$ process. Departing from this fact, we analyse in this work the effect of iterating OU treated as a linear operator that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Argimiro Arratia , Alejandra Cabaña , Enrique M. Cabaña

Various challenges are faced when animalcules such as bacteria, protozoa, algae, or sperms move autonomously in aqueous media at low Reynolds number. These active agents are subject to strong stochastic fluctuations, that compete with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-16 Christina Kurzthaler , Sebastian Leitmann , Thomas Franosch

In this work, we examine the impact of time-varying temperature and force on the thermodynamic features of active Brownian motor that moves with velocity against the force as well as passive Brownian motor. By deriving analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-10 Mesfin Taye

We investigate a two-dimensional system of active particles confined to a narrow annular domain. Despite the absence of explicit interactions among the velocities or the active forces of different particles, the system displays a transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Caprini , Claudio Maggi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We study the glassy dynamics taking place in dense assemblies of athermal active particles that are driven solely by a nonequilibrium self-propulsion mechanism. Active forces are modeled as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic process,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-28 Elijah Flenner , Grzegorz Szamel , Ludovic Berthier

Within the Rayleigh-Helmholtz model of active Brownian particles activity is due to a non-linear velocity dependent force. In the presence of an external trapping potential or a constant force, the steady state of the system breaks detailed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Debasish Chaudhuri

We study the two-dimensional motion of an active Brownian particle of speed $v_0$, with intermittent directional reversals in the presence of a harmonic trap of strength $\mu$. The presence of the trap ensures that the position of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Ion Santra , Urna Basu , Sanjib Sabhapandit

We derive a Doi-Peliti field theory for free active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles, or, equivalently, free inertial Brownian particles, and present a way to diagonalise the Gaussian part of the action and calculate the propagator. Unlike…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-09 Marius Bothe , Gunnar Pruessner

In a theoretical and simulation study, active Brownian particles (ABPs) in three-dimensional bulk systems are exposed to time-varying sinusoidal activity waves that are running through the system. A linear response (Green-Kubo) formalism is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-13 Holger Merlitz , Hidde Vuijk , Joseph Brader , Abhinav Sharma , Jense-Uwe Sommer

A polar tracer immersed in an active bath is known to be propelled forward and therefore activated. Here we report that the induced dynamics of an inertial tracer can be much richer than expected. We investigate a heavy polar tracer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-14 Jing-Bo Zeng , Ji-Hui Pei

We report an approach to obtain effective pair potentials which describe the structure of two-dimensional systems of active Brownian particles. The pair potential is found by an inverse method, which matches the radial distribution function…

Motivated by the anomalous diffusion observed in clusters of active Brownian particles (ABPs), where the center-of-mass diffusion coefficient scales as $D\sim N^{-1/2}$ with respect to the number $N$ of particles in the cluster, we derive a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-07 Daniela Moretti , Pasquale Digregorio , Giuseppe Gonnella , Antonio Suma

Typically the motion of self-propelled active particles is described in a quiescent environment establishing an inertial frame of reference. Here we assume that friction, self-propulsion and uctuations occur relative to a non-inertial frame…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-26 Hartmut Löwen

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