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In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of an $N$ particles system evolving according the gradient flow of an energy functional. The particle system is a consistent approximation of the Lagrangian formulation of a one parameter family of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-01-31 V. Calvez , L. Corrias

While it is well established that self-propelled particles with alignment interactions can exhibit orientational order, the impact of self-replication and annihilation, which are key characteristics in cellular systems, on spatiotemporal…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-09 Seiya Takamura , Nen Saito

Particle number fluctuations $N(t)$, measured in virtual observation boxes of an image or a simulation, offer a way to quantify particle dynamics when particle tracking is impractical, such as in high-density systems. While traditionally…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-07 Tristan Cerdin , Talia Calazans , Carine Douarche , Sophie Marbach

Langevin equation pertinent to diffusion limited aggregation of charged particles in the presence of an external magnetic field is solved exactly. The solution involves correlated random variables. A new scheme for exactly sampling the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mini P. Balakrishnan , M. C. Valsakumar , P. Rameshan

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

In this paper we theoretically investigate underlying assumptions that have been used for designing adaptive particle swarm optimization algorithms in the past years. We relate these assumptions to the movement patterns of particles…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Mohammad Reza Bonyadi

The motility of living things and synthetic self-propelled objects is often described using Active Brownian particles. To capture the interaction of these particles with their often complex environment, this model can be augmented with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-06 Sascha Lambert , Merle Duchene , Stefan Klumpp

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

We propose a method to exactly generate bridge run-and-tumble trajectories that are constrained to start at the origin with a given velocity and to return to the origin after a fixed time with another given velocity. The method extends the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-22 Benjamin De Bruyne , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

In the last decade, the study of pressure in active matter has attracted growing attention due to its fundamental relevance to nonequilibrium statistical physics. Active matter systems are composed of particles that consume energy to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-14 Guo Yu , Ruiyao Li , Fukang Li , Jiayu Zhang , Xiyue Li , Zequ Chen , Joscha Mecke , Yongxiang Gao

We have performed a case study investigating a recently proposed scheme to obtain an effective pair potential for active Brownian particles [Farage et al., Phys. Rev. E 91, 042310 (2015)]. Applying this scheme to the Lennard-Jones…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-05 Markus Rein , Thomas Speck

Run-and-Tumble particles, mimicking the behaviour of microorganisms like E. coli, are a paradigmatic model of active matter. Due to self-propulsion, their random and undirected motion can be rectified in a ratchet potential. Using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-11 Zigan Zhen , Gunnar Pruessner

The Langevin equation with multiplicative noise and state-dependent transport coefficient has to be always complemented with the proper interpretation rule of the noise, such as the Ito and Stratonovich conventions. Although the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-05 Takeshi Kuroiwa , Kunimasa Miyazaki

A system of interacting Brownian particles subject to short-range repulsive potentials is considered. A continuum description in the form of a nonlinear diffusion equation is derived systematically in the dilute limit using the method of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-12 Maria Bruna , S. Jonathan Chapman , Martin Robinson

We present a predictive local field theory for the nonequilibrium dynamics of interacting active Brownian particles with a spherical shape in two spatial dimensions. The theory is derived by a rigorous coarse-graining starting from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-26 Jens Bickmann , Raphael Wittkowski

A diverse range of natural and artificial self-propelled particles are known and are used nowadays. Among them, active Brownian particles (ABPs) and run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) are two important classes. We numerically study…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-02 Maryam Khatami , Katrin Wolff , Oliver Pohl , Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi , Holger Stark

We investigate the transport properties of active particles undergoing a three-state run-and-tumble dynamics in one dimension, induced by non-reciprocal transition rates between self-propelling velocity states $\{-v, 0, +v\}$ that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-15 Julio C. R. Romo-Cruz , Francisco J. Sevilla

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

By now active Brownian motion is a well-established model to describe the motion of mesoscopic self-propelled particles in a Newtonian fluid. On the basis of the generalized Langevin equation, we present an analytic framework for active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-13 Alexander R. Sprenger , Christian Bair , Hartmut Löwen

We have generalized the semi-analytic approach of special flow to the description of flows of passive particles taking into account internal noise. The model is represented by a series of recurrence relations. The recurrence relations are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-12 Boris S. Maryshev , Lyudmila S. Klimenko