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We study the dynamics of a zero-temperature particle interacting linearly with a bath of hot Brownian particles. Starting with the most general model of a linearly-coupled bath, we eliminate the bath degrees of freedom exactly to map the…

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The Langevin equation is ubiquitously employed to numerically simulate plasmas, colloids and electrolytes. However, the usual assumption of white noise becomes untenable when the system is subject to an external AC electric field. This is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Daniele Gamba , Bingyu Cui , Alessio Zaccone

We investigate the diffusion of an intruder in a granular gas, with both components modeled as smooth hard spheres, both immersed in a low viscosity carrier fluid to form a particle-laden suspension. In this system, dissipative particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-27 Antonio M. Puertas , Rubén Gómez González

We follow the dynamics of an ensemble of interacting self-propelled semi-flexible polymers in contact with a thermal bath. We characterize structure and dynamics of the passive system and as a function of the motor activity. We find that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-14 Davide Loi , Stefano Mossa , Leticia F. Cugliandolo

The Generalised Langevin Equation (GLE) method, as developed in Ref. [Phys. Rev. B 89, 134303 (2014)], is used to calculate the dissipative dynamics of systems described at the atomic level. The GLE scheme goes beyond the commonly used…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-06 H. Ness , L. Stella , C. D. Lorenz , L. Kantorovich

We propose a theoretical model which relies on the generalized Langevin equation and may account for various dynamical features of the thermal motion of organelles, vesicles or macromolecules in viscoelastic media such as polymer networks.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-03 Denis S. Grebenkov , Mahsa Vahabi , Elena Bertseva , Laszlo Forro , Sylvia Jeney

A polar tracer immersed in an active bath is known to be propelled forward and therefore activated. Here we report that the induced dynamics of an inertial tracer can be much richer than expected. We investigate a heavy polar tracer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-14 Jing-Bo Zeng , Ji-Hui Pei

Ensembles of biological and artificial microswimmers produce long-range velocity fields with strong nonequilibrium fluctuations, which result in dramatic increase diffusivity of embedded particles (tracers). While such enhanced diffusivity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-20 Sergey Belan , Mehran Kardar

Single-file diffusion refers to the motion in narrow channels of particles which cannot bypass each other. These strong correlations between particles lead to tracer subdiffusion, which has been observed in contexts as varied as transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-08 Alexis Poncet , Aurélien Grabsch , Pierre Illien , Olivier Bénichou

This study examines the dynamics of a tracer particle diffusing in a nonequilibrium medium under stochastic resetting. The nonequilibrium state is induced by harmonic coupling between the tracer and bath particles, generating memory effects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-04 Koushik Goswami

We study the position of a biased tracer particle (TP) in a bath of hardcore particles moving on a lattice of arbitrary dimension and in contact with a reservoir. Starting from the master equation satisfied by the joint probability of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-09 Pierre Illien , Olivier Bénichou , Gleb Oshanin , Raphaël Voituriez

Channels are fundamental building blocks from biophysics to soft robotics, often used to transport or separate solutes. As solute particles inevitably transverse between streamlines along the channel by molecular diffusion, the effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-10 Sophie Marbach , Karen Alim

Emergent bath-mediated attraction and condensation arise when multiple particles are simultaneously driven through an equilibrated bath under geometric constraints. While such scenarios are observed in a variety of non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 Asaf Miron , David Mukamel , Harald A. Posch

The conventional assumption that the self-diffusion coefficient of a small tracer can be obtained by a local and instantaneous application of Einstein's relation in a temperature field with spatial and temporal heterogeneity is revisited.…

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Single molecular motor kinesin harnesses thermal and non-thermal fluctuations to transport various cargoes along microtubules, converting chemical energy to directed movements. To describe the non-thermal fluctuations generated by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-20 Mengkai Feng , Zhonghuai Hou

We study the scale dependence of effective diffusion of fluid tracers, specifically, its dependence on the P\'{e}clet number, a dimensionless parameter of the ratio between advection and molecular diffusion. Here, we address the case that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-13 Yohei Kono , Yoshihiko Susuki , Takashi Hikihara

We investigate the influence of a self-propelling, out-of-equilibrium active particle on generalized elastic systems, including flexible and semiflexible polymers, fluid membranes, and fluctuating interfaces, while accounting for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-25 Alessandro Taloni

The diffusion of active microscopic organisms in complex environments plays an important role in a wide range of biological phenomena from cell colony growth to single organism transport. Here, we investigate theoretically and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-16 Juan L. Aragones , Shahrzad Yazdi , Alfredo Alexander-Katz

We consider the trajectories of particles diffusing between two infinite baths of fixed concentrations connected by a channel, e.g. a protein channel of a biological membrane. The steady state influx and efflux of Langevin trajectories at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Nadler , Z. Schuss , A. Singer

The dispersion of a passive colloid immersed in a bath of non-interacting and non-Brownian run-and-tumble microswimmers in two dimensions is analyzed using stochastic simulations and an asymptotic theory, both based on a minimal model of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-18 Tanumoy Dhar , David Saintillan