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Group-level behaviour of particles undergoing a velocity jump process with hard-sphere interactions is investigated. We derive $N$-particle transport equations that include the possibility of collisions between particles and apply different…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Benjamin Franz , Jake Taylor-King , Christian Yates , Radek Erban

Deformable self-propelled particles provide us with one of the most important nonlinear dissipative systems, which are related, for example, to the motion of microorganisms. It is emphasized that this is a subject of localized objects in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Tarama , Y. Itino , A. M. Menzel , T. Ohta

We investigate dynamics of deformable self-propelled particles with a repulsive interaction whose magnitude depends on the relative direction of elongation of a pair of particles. A collective motion of the particles appears in two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 Yu Itino , Takahiro Ohkuma , Takao Ohta

We determine numerically the parallel, perpendicular, and antisymmetric diffusion coefficients for charged particles propagating in highly turbulent magnetic fields, by means of extensive Monte Carlo simulations. We propose simple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Julián Candia , Esteban Roulet

We study the dynamics of a carrier, which performs a biased motion under the influence of an external field E, in an environment which is modeled by dynamic percolation and created by hard-core particles. The particles move randomly on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Benichou , J. Klafter , M. Moreau , G. Oshanin

We consider a system of two reaction-diffusion-advection equations describing the one dimensional directed motion of particles with superimposed diffusion and mutual alignment. For this system we show the existence of traveling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Heinrich Freistühler , Jan Fuhrmann

We present a model including diffusion and particle-size dispersion for separation of particles in deterministic lateral displacement devices also known as bumper arrays. We determine the upper critical diameter for diffusion-dominated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-01-20 Martin Heller , Henrik Bruus

The paper considers heat conduction in a model chain of composite particles with hard core and elastic external shell. Such model mimics three main features of realistic interatomic potentials - hard repulsive core, quasilinear behavior in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-13 V. Zolotarevskiy , A. V. Savin , O. V. Gendelman

The migration of active particles in slowly moving, crowded, and heterogeneous media is fundamental to various biological processes and technological applications, such as cargo transport. In this study, we numerically investigate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-04 Meng-Yuan Li , Ning Zheng , Yan-Wei Li

The jamming transition of soft particles characterized by narrow size distributions has been well studied by physicists. However, polydispersed systems are more relevant to engineering, and the influence of polydispersity on jamming…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-26 Kuniyasu Saitoh , Brian P. Tighe

Particle dynamics are investigated in plasma turbulence, using self-consistent kinetic simulations, in two dimensions. In steady state, the trajectories of single protons and proton-pairs are studied, at different values of plasma "beta"…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Servidio , C. T. Haynes , W. H. Matthaeus , D. Burgess , V. Carbone , P. Veltri

We introduce two discrete models of a collection of colliding particles with stored momentum and study the asymptotic growth of the mean-square displacement of an active particle. We prove that the models are superdiffusive in one dimension…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Edward Crane , Sean Ledger , Balint Toth

Anomalous diffusion has been widely observed by single particle tracking microscopy in complex systems such as biological cells. The resulting time series are usually evaluated in terms of time averages. Often anomalous diffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Stas Burov , Jae-Hyung Jeon , Ralf Metzler , Eli Barkai

We study drag-induced diffusion of massive particles in scale-free velocity fields, where superdiffusive behavior emerges due to the scale-free size distribution of the vortices of the underlying velocity field. The results show qualitative…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Reza M. Baram , Pedro G. Lind , José S. Andrade , Hans J. Herrmann

Wave-particle interaction is a key process in particle diffusion in collisionless plasmas. We look into the interaction of single plasma waves with individual particles and discuss under which circumstances this is a chaotic process,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 Cedric Schreiner , Rami Vainio , Felix Spanier

We consider the single-file dynamics of $N$ identical random walkers moving with diffusivity $D$ in one dimension (walkers bounce off each other when attempting to overtake). Additionally, we require that the separation between neighboring…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-03 Santos Bravo Yuste , A. Baumgaertner , E. Abad

The stochastic dynamics of an active particle undergoing a constant speed and additionally driven by an overall fluctuating torque is investigated. The random torque forces are expressed by a stochastic differential equation for the angular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-22 Christian Weber , Paul K. Radtke , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Peter Hänggi

The diffusion of a particle in a crowded environment typically proceeds through three regimes: for very short times the particle diffuses freely until it collides with an obstacle for the first time, while for very long times diffusion the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Nguiya P. Neo , Gary W. Slater

We simulate a model of self-propelled disks with soft repulsive interactions confined to a box in two dimensions. For small rotational diffusion rates, monodisperse disks spontaneously accumulate at the walls. At low densities, interaction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-05 Xingbo Yang , M. Lisa Manning , M. Cristina Marchetti

The two--dimensional diffusive dynamics of test particles in a random electromagnetic field is studied. The synthetic electromagnetic fluctuations are generated through randomly placed magnetised ``clouds'' oscillating with a frequency…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-01 Silvia Perri , Fabio Lepreti , Vincenzo Carbone , Angelo Vulpiani