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Measurements of protein motion in living cells and membranes consistently report transient anomalous diffusion (subdiffusion) which converges back to a Brownian motion with reduced diffusion coefficient at long times, after the anomalous…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-05 Hédi Soula , Bertrand Caré , Guillaume Beslon , Hugues Berry

The stochastic trajectories of molecules in living cells, as well as the dynamics in many other complex systems, often exhibit memory in their path over long periods of time. In addition, these systems can show dynamic heterogeneities due…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-10 Michał Balcerek , Agnieszka Wyłomańska , Krzysztof Burnecki , Ralf Metzler , Diego Krapf

The diffusive behavior of small entities is strongly influenced by the flow of the surrounding medium, which is ubiquitous in natural and artificial environments. In this study, we investigate the transport characteristics of the inertial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-19 Ankit Gupta , P. S. Burada

We numerically study the dynamics of two-dimensional blue phases in active chiral liquid crystals. We show that introducing contractile activity results in stabilised blue phases, while small extensile activity generates ordered but dynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-27 Luuk Metselaar , Amin Doostmohammadi , Julia M. Yeomans

We investigate configuration dynamics of a flexible polymer chain in a bath of active particles with dynamic chirality, i.e., particles rotate with a deterministic angular velocity $\omega$ besides self-propulsion,by Langevin dynamics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-08 Xinshuang Liu , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

We carry out two-dimensional Brownian dynamics simulations of the behavior of rigid inclusion particles immersed in an active fluid bath. The active fluid is modeled as a collection of self-propelled circular disks interacting via a soft…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-16 Lijie Ding , Robert A. Pelcovits , Thomas R. Powers

We derive a Doi-Peliti Field Theory for transiently chiral active particles in two dimensions, that is, active Brownian particles that undergo tumbles via a diffusing reorientation angle. Using this framework, we compute the mean squared…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-03 Callum Britton , Gunnar Pruessner , Thibault Bertrand

We investigate the interplay between chirality and confinement induced by the presence of an external potential. For potentials having radial symmetry, the circular character of the trajectories induced by the chiral motion reduces the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-08 Lorenzo Caprini , Hartmut Löwen , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Chirality is considered by many scientists to be mainly a geometric concept. There exists also a physical aspect of chirality which is largely being overlooked at. Two examples of mechanical devices are introduced here that represent…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gilat

We investigate the time evolution of a model system of interacting particles, moving in a $d$-dimensional torus. The microscopic dynamics are first order in time with velocities set equal to the negative gradient of a potential energy term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-12 Paolo Butta` , Joel L. Lebowitz

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with stationary, long-time correlated increments and is frequently used to model anomalous diffusion processes. We study numerically fractional Brownian motion confined to a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-22 T. Guggenberger , G. Pagnini , T. Vojta , R. Metzler

We consider active Brownian particles that intermittently switch between active and inactive states. Such behavior is ubiquitous at all scales, from bacteria to animals and in artificial active systems. We derive exact expressions for key…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-24 Fernando Peruani , Debasish Chaudhuri

Adopting the fully quantal triaxial particle rotor model, the candidate chiral doublet bands in odd-$A$ nuclei $^{103}$Rh and $^{105}$Rh with $\pi g_{9/2}^{-1}\otimes\nu h^{2}_{11/2}$ configuration are studied. For the doublet bands in both…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-22 B. Qi , S. Q. Zhang , S. Y. Wang , J. Meng , T. Koike

Based on analytical and numerical calculations we study the dynamics of an overdamped colloidal particle moving in two dimensions under time-delayed, non-linear feedback control. Specifically, the particle is subject to a force derived from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-07 Robin A. Kopp , Sabine H. L. Klapp

We systematically investigate how flagellar morphology governs the stability of bacterial Brownian motion, evaluating the effectiveness of a simplified chiral two-body model. This model, which effectively captures the specific bacterial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-03 Baopi Liu , Bowen Jin , Lu Chen , Ning Liu

A mixture of spinning particles of two different types represents a system where both nonreciprocity and chirality determine the emergent dynamics. In this work we present a minimal model for a two-species mixture of chiral active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-27 Giulia Pisegna , Suropriya Saha

The dynamics of chiral nuclei is investigated for the first time with the time-dependent and tilted axis cranking covariant density functional theories on a three-dimensional space lattice in a microscopic and self-consistent way. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-08 Z. X. Ren , P. W. Zhao , J. Meng

Various active materials exhibit strong spatio-temporal variability of their orientational order known as active turbulence, characterised by irregular and chaotic motion of topological defects, including colloidal suspensions,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-29 Nika Kralj , Miha Ravnik , Žiga Kos

Combining experiments on active colloids, whose propulsion velocity can be controlled via a feedback loop, and theory of active Brownian motion, we explore the dynamics of an overdamped active particle with a motility that depends…

We study the dynamics of a single inertial run-and-tumble particle on a straight line. The motion of this particle is characterized by two intrinsic time-scales, namely, an inertial and an active time-scale. We show that interplay of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-21 Debraj Dutta , Anupam Kundu , Urna Basu