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We consider the thermal and athermal overdamped motion of particles in 1D geometries where discrete internal degrees of freedom (spin) are coupled with the translational motion. Adding a driving velocity that depends on the time-dependent…

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We identify generic protocols achieving optimal power extraction from a single active particle subject to continuous feedback control under the assumption that its spatial trajectory, but not its instantaneous self-propulsion force, is…

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We carry out a comprehensive linear stability analysis of active Brownian particle systems around a constant homogeneous state. These scalar models, being important prototypes for the continuous description of active matter, are…

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We study the stochastic motion of active particles that undergo spontaneous transitions between two distinct modes of motion. Each mode is characterized by a velocity distribution and an arbitrary (anti-)persistence. We present an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-07 M. Reza Shaebani , Heiko Rieger , Zeinab Sadjadi

We study the non-equilibrium steady states and first passage properties of a Brownian particle with position $X$ subject to an external confining potential of the form $V(X)=\mu|X|$, and that is switched on and off stochastically. Applying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-11 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar , Grégory Schehr

A jump-diffusion process along with a particle scheme is devised as an accurate and efficient particle solution to the Boltzmann equation. The proposed process (hereafter Gamma-Boltzmann model) is devised to match the evolution of all…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Fabian Mies , Mohsen Sadr , Manuel Torrilhon

Overdamped Brownian motion of a self-propelled particle is studied by solving the Langevin equation analytically. On top of translational and rotational diffusion, in the context of the presented model, the "active" particle is driven along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-15 Borge ten Hagen , Sven van Teeffelen , Hartmut Löwen

An exact description of the statistical motion of active particles in three dimension is presented in the framework of a generalized diffusion equation. Such a generalization contemplates a non-local, in time and space, connecting (memory)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-20 Francisco J Sevilla

We consider one dimensional diffusive search strategies subjected to external potentials. The location of a single target is drawn from a given probability density function (PDF) $f_G(x)$ and is fixed for each stochastic realization of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-07 Łukasz Kuśmierz , Martin Bier , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

We study the Brownian dynamics of a solid particle on a vibrating solid surface. Phenomenologically, the interaction between the two solid surfaces is modeled by solid friction, and the Gaussian white noise models the vibration of the solid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-15 Prasenjit Das , Moshe Schwartz , Sanjay Puri

The aim of this contribution is to study the particle dynamics in a storage ring under the influence of noise. Some simplified stochastic beam dynamics problems are treated by solving the corresponding Fokker-Planck equations numerically.

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Mais , M. P. Zorzano

Starting from the stochastic thermodynamics description of two coupled underdamped Brownian particles, we showcase and compare three different coarse-graining schemes leading to an effective thermodynamic description for the first of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-20 Tim Herpich , Kamran Shayanfard , Massimiliano Esposito

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) and Run-and-Tumble particles (RTPs) both self-propel at fixed speed $v$ along a body-axis ${\bf u}$ that reorients either through slow angular diffusion (ABPs) or sudden complete randomisation (RTPs). We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-12 A. P. Solon , M. E. Cates , J. Tailleur

Confined active particles constitute simple, yet realistic, examples of systems that converge into a non-equilibrium steady state. We investigate a run-and-tumble particle in one spatial dimension, trapped by an external potential, with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-09 Oded Farago , Naftali R. Smith

This is an attempt to address diffusion phenomena from the point of view of information theory. We imagine a regular hamiltonian system under the random perturbation of thermal (molecular) noise and chaotic instability. The irregularity of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Qiuping A. Wang

We study the relaxation of a test particle immersed in a bath of field particles interacting via weak long-range forces. To order 1/N in the $N\to +\infty$ limit, the velocity distribution of the test particle satisfies a Fokker-Planck…

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We study the target search of interacting Brownian particles in a finite domain, focusing on the effect of inter-particle interactions on the search time. We derive the integral equation for the mean first-passage time and acquire its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-12 Sunghan Ro , Juyeon Yi , Yong Woon Kim

Understanding the statistical behavior of the heat in stochastic systems gives us insight about the thermodynamics of such systems. Using the recently proposed Relativistic Stochastic Thermodynamics, we investigate the statistics of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-11 Pedro V. Paraguassú , Welles A. M. Morgado

Identifying optimal strategies for efficient spatial exploration is crucial, both for animals seeking food and for robotic search processes, where maximizing the covered area is a fundamental requirement. Here, we propose position resetting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-02 Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

Let a lattice gas of constant density, described by the symmetric simple exclusion process, be brought in contact with a "target": a spherical absorber of radius $R$. Employing the macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT), we evaluate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Baruch Meerson , Arkady Vilenkin , P. L. Krapivsky