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Active Brownian particles (ABPs) function as self-driving agents that display non-equilibrium behavior through their pairwise interactions which lead to phase separation and vortex patterns in both soft matter and living systems. A…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 Sadra Saremi , Amirhossein Ahmadkhan Kordbacheh

Fokker-Planck equation with the velocity-dependent coefficients is considered for various isotropic systems on the basis of probability transition (PT) approach. This method provides the self-consistent and universal description of friction…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Trigger

We study the dynamics of a single active Brownian particle (ABP) in two spatial dimensions. The ABP has an intrinsic time scale $D_R^{-1}$ set by the rotational diffusion constant $D_R$. We show that, at short-times $t \ll D_R^{-1}$, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-29 Urna Basu , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso , Gregory Schehr

We study analytically the dynamics of anisotropic active Brownian particles (ABPs), and more precisely their intermediate scattering function (ISF). To this end, we develop a systematic closure scheme for the moment expansion of their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Timothée Gautry , Maxime Deforet , Pierre Illien

Considerable progress has recently been made with geometrical approaches to understanding and controlling small out-of-equilibrium systems, but a mathematically rigorous foundation for these methods has been lacking. Towards this end, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-06 Neha S. Wadia , Ryan V. Zarcone , Michael R. DeWeese

We study spectral properties of the Fokker-Planck operator that represents particles moving via a combination of diffusion and advection in a time-independent random velocity field, presenting in detail work outlined elsewhere [J. T.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-08-05 J. T. Chalker , Z. Jane Wang

We derive the first-passage-time statistics of a Brownian motion driven by an exponential time-dependent drift up to a threshold. This process corresponds to the signal integration in a simple neuronal model supplemented with an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-30 Eugenio Urdapilleta

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

We derive the probability density function of the positive occupation time of one-dimensional Brownian motion with two-valued drift. Long time asymptotics of the density are also computed. We use the result to describe the transitional…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-06 David J. W. Simpson , Rachel Kuske

We analyze the escape of Brownian particles over potential barriers using the Fokker-Planck equation in a similar way to that of Chandrasekhar (Rev. Modern Phys., 1943), deriving a formula for the particle deposition velocity to a surface…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-05 Michael W. Reeks

We study the first-passage-time (FPT) properties of active Brownian particles to reach an absorbing wall in two dimensions. Employing a perturbation approach we obtain exact analytical predictions for the survival and FPT distributions for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-10 Yanis Baouche , Magali Le Goff , Christina Kurzthaler , Thomas Franosch

By collecting from literature data the experimental evidences of anomalous diffusion of passive tracers inside cytoplasm, and in particular of subdiffusion of mRNA molecules inside live E. coli cells, we get the probability density function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-05 Claudio Runfola , Silvia Vitali , Gianni Pagnini

We present a classical, mesoscopic derivation of the Fokker-Planck equation for diffusion in an expanding medium. To this end, we take a conveniently generalized Chapman-Kolmogorov equation as the starting point. We obtain an analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-21 S. B. Yuste , E. Abad , C. Escudero

The Fokker-Planck equation is a partial differential equation that describes the evolution of a probability distribution over time. It is used to model a wide range of physical and biological phenomena, such as diffusion, chemical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Wisit Mangthas , Waipot Ngamsaad

A generalized canonical formulation of the theory of the electromagnetic Fokker interaction for a system of two particles is proposed. The functional integral on the generalized phase space is defined as the initial one in quantum theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Natalia Gorobey , Alexander Lukyanenko , A. V. Goltsev

The Active Brownian Particle (ABP) model exemplifies a wide class of active matter particles. In this work, we demonstrate how this model can be cast into a field theory in both two and three dimensions. Our aim is manifold: we wish both to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-26 Ziluo Zhang , Lili Fehértói-Nagy , Maria Polackova , Gunnar Pruessner

The behavior of a heavy tagged intruder immersed in a bath of particles evolving under ballistic annihilation dynamics is investigated. The Fokker-Planck equation for this system is derived and the peculiarities of the corresponding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-07 M. I. Garcia de Soria , P. Maynar , E. Trizac

We investigate a diffusive motion of a system of interacting Brownian particles in quasi-one-dimensional micropores. In particular, we consider a semi-infinite 1D geometry with a partially absorbing boundary and the hard-core inter-particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-06 Artem Ryabov , Petr Chvosta

We study the simplest terms that need to be included in active field theories to couple them to external potentials. To do so, we consider active Brownian particles and implement a systematic perturbative expansion in the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yariv Kafri , Julien Tailleur

We investigate the stochastic motion of a Brownian particle in the harmonic potential with a time-dependent force constant. It may describe the motion of a colloidal particle in an optical trap where the potential well is formed by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-11 Chulan Kwon , Jae Dong Noh , Hyunggyu Park