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Prolongating our previous paper on the Einstein relation, we study the motion of a particle diffusing in a random reversible environment when subject to a small external forcing. In order to describe the long time behavior of the particle,…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Pierre Mathieu , Andrey Piatnitski

We investigate the long time behavior of a passive particle evolving in a one-dimensional diffusive random environment, with diffusion constant $D$. We consider two cases: (a) The particle is pulled forward by a small external constant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-16 François Huveneers

Living systems often function with regulatory interactions, but the question of how activity, stochasticity and regulations work together for achieving different goals still remains puzzling. We propose a stochastic model of an active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-02 Tai Han , Fanlong Meng

We investigate the single-file dynamics of a tagged particle in a system consisting of N hardcore interacting particles (the particles cannot pass each other) which are diffusing in a one-dimensional system where the particles have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tobias Ambjornsson , Ludvig Lizana , Michael A. Lomholt , Robert J. Silbey

Active fluids operate by constantly dissipating energy at the particle level to perform a directed motion, yielding dynamics and phases without any equilibrium equivalent. The emerging behaviors have been studied extensively, yet…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-03 Étienne Fodor , Takahiro Nemoto , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

We introduce a simple model of active transport for an ensemble of particles driven by an external shear flow. Active refers to the fact that the flow of the particles is modified by the distribution of particles itself. The model consists…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristobal Lopez

We show that a scaling approach successfully characterizes clustering and intermittency in space and time, in systems of noninteracting particles driven by fluctuating surfaces. We study both the steady state and the approach to it, for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-15 Tapas Singha , Mustansir Barma

We introduce a stochastic agent-based model for the flocking dynamics of self-propelled particles that exhibit velocity-alignment interactions with neighbours within their field of view. The stochasticity in the dynamics of the model arises…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Trilochan Bagarti , Shakti N. Menon

Stochasticity is a defining feature of the pairwise forces governing interactions in biological systems-from molecular motors to cell-cell adhesion-yet its consequences on large-scale dynamics remain poorly understood. Here, we show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-27 Henry Alston , Raphael Voituriez , Thibault Bertrand

We present the results of a numerical investigation of charged-particle transport across a synthesized magnetic configuration composed of a constant homogeneous background field and a multiscale perturbation component simulating an effect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Chiaravalloti , Alexander V. Milovanov , Gaetano Zimbardo

We study the dynamical properties of an active particle subject to a swimming speed explicitly depending on the particle position. The oscillating spatial profile of the swim velocity considered in this paper takes inspiration from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen

We use the Fokker-Planck equation and its moment equations to study the collective behavior of interacting particles in unsteady one-dimensional flows. Particles interact according to a long-range attractive and a short-range repulsive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-05 Maryam Abedi , Mir Abbas Jalali

Tracking experiments in dense biological tissues reveal a diversity of sources f or local energy injection at the cell scale. The effect of cell motility has been largely studied, but much less is known abo ut the effect of the observed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-29 Elsen Tjhung , Ludovic Berthier

The single-particle and collective dynamical properties of liquid lithium have been evaluated at several thermodynamic states near the triple point. This is performed within the framework of mode-coupling theory, using a self-consistent…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Casas , D. J. Gonzalez , L. E. Gonzalez , M. M. G. Alemany , L. J. Gallego

Single-file diffusion is a one-dimensional interacting infinite-particle system in which the order of particles never changes. An intriguing feature of single-file diffusion is that the mean-square displacement of a tagged particle exhibits…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paul L. Krapivsky , Kirone Mallick , Tridib Sadhu

We consider model of a complex particle that consists of a rigid shell and a nucleus with spatial asymmetric interaction. The particle's dynamics with the nucleus driven by a periodic excitation is considered. It is shown that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Denisov

In this article we derive and test the fluctuating hydrodynamic description of active particles interacting via taxis and quorum sensing, both for mono-disperse systems and for mixtures of co-existing species of active particles. We compute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-14 Alberto Dinelli , Jérémy O'Byrne , Julien Tailleur

We present a stochastic description of a model of N mutually repelling active spheres in the presence of external fields and characterize its steady state behavior. To reproduce the effects of the experimentally observed persistence of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-03 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Claudio Maggi

This article examines the spatial {dynamics of bed load particles} in water. We focus particularly on the fluctuations of particle activity, which is defined as the number of moving particles per unit bed {length}. Based on a stochastic…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 J. Heyman , H. B. Ma , F. Mettra , C. Ancey

We consider a model of active Brownian particles with velocity-alignment in two spatial dimensions with passive and active fluctuations. Hereby, active fluctuations refers to purely non-equilibrium stochastic forces correlated with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Grossmann , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Pawel Romanczuk