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We study the Fokker-Planck equation for an active particle with both the radial and tangential forces and the perturbative force. We find the solution of the joint probability density. In the limit of the long-time domain and for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-15 Jae-Won Jung , Sung Kyu Seo , Sungchul Kwon , Kyungsik Kim

Turbulent flows in the solar wind, large scale current sheets, multiple current sheets, and shock waves lead to the formation of environments in which a dense network of current sheets is established and sustains "turbulent reconnection".…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Loukas Vlahos , Theophilos Pisokas , Heinz Isliker , Vassilios Tsiolis , Anastasios Anastasiadis

The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francisco J. Sevilla , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Trifce Sandev

In this work, the primary goal is to establish rigorous connection between the Fokker-Planck equation of neural networks with its microscopic model: the diffusion-jump stochastic process that captures the mean field behavior of collections…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Jian-guo Liu , Ziheng Wang , Yuan Zhang , Zhennan Zhou

Despite having been studied for decades, first passage processes remain an active area of research. In this contribution we examine a particle diffusing in an annulus with an inner absorbing boundary and an outer reflective boundary. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-05 Charles Antoine , Julian Talbot

We study the one-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle inside a confinement described by two reactive boundaries which can partially reflect or absorb the particle. Understanding the effects of such boundaries is important in physics,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-30 Arnab Pal , Isaac Pérez Castillo , Anupam Kundu

In this paper we consider a random search process with stochastic resetting and a partially accessible target $\calU$. That is, when the searcher finds the target by attaching to its surface $\partial \calU$ it does not have immediate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-07 Paul C. Bressloff

Incorporating boundary conditions into stochastic models of passive or active particle motion is usually implemented at the level of the associated forward or backward Kolmogorov equation, whose solution determines the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-29 Paul C Bressloff

We derive a Fokker-Planck equation for joint probability density for an active particle coupled two heat reservoirs with harmonic, viscous, random forces. The approximate solution for the joint distribution density of all-to-all and three…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-15 Jae-Won Jung , Sung Kyu Seo , Kyungsik Kim

We investigate the motion of a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in one dimension. We find the exact probability distribution of the particle with and without diffusion on the infinite line, as well as in a finite interval. In the infinite…

We study the rotational and translational kinetics of massive particulates (dust grains) absorbing the ambient gas. Equations for microscopic phase densities are deduced resulting in the Fokker-Planck equation for the dust component. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 A. M. Ignatov , S. A. Trigger , S. A. Maiorov , W. Ebeling

The diffusion of chiral active Brownian particles in three-dimensional space is studied analytically, by consideration of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation for the probability density of finding a particle at position…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Francisco J. Sevilla

Run-and-tumble is a basic model of persistent motion and a motility strategy widespread in micro-organisms and individual cells. In many natural settings, movement occurs in the presence of confinement. While accumulation at the surface has…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-12 T. Pietrangeli , C. Ybert , C. Cottin-Bizonne , F. Detcheverry

We investigate to what extent one can use a thermodynamic description of turbulent flow as a source of stochastic kinetic energy for three-dimensional self-assembly of magnetically interacting macroscopic particles. We confirm that the…

We derive a distribution function for the position of a tagged active particle in a slowly varying in space external potential, in a system of interacting active particles. The tagged particle distribution has the form of the Boltzmann…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-19 Alireza Shakerpoor , Elijah Flenner , Grzegorz Szamel

We study the target searching on the DNA for proteins in the presence of non-constant drift and non-Gaussian $\alpha$-stable L\'evy fluctuations. The target searching is realized by the facilitated diffusion process. The existing works are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-27 Xi Chen , Xiujun Cheng , Yanmei Kang , Jinqiao Duan

We study the problem of a target search by a Brownian particle subject to stochastic resetting to a pair of sites. The mean search time is minimized by an optimal resetting rate which does not vary smoothly, in contrast with the well-known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-28 Pedro Julián-Salgado , Leonardo Dagdug , Denis Boyer

We investigate the mean first passage time of an active Brownian particle in one dimension using numerical simulations. The activity in one dimension is modeled as a two state model; the particle moves with a constant propulsion strength…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Alberto Scacchi , Abhinav Sharma

A random search is a stochastic process representing the random motion of a particle (denoted as the searcher) that is terminated when it reaches (detects) a target particle or area the first time. In intermittent search the random motion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-23 Karsten Schwarz , Yannick Schröder , Heiko Rieger

Stochastic acceleration of charged particles due to interactions with magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma waves is the dominant process leading to the formation of the high-energy electron and ion distributions in a variety of astrophysical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. A. Becker , T. Le , C. D. Dermer
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