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Single-file transport refers to the motion of particles in a narrow channel, such that they cannot bypass each other. This constraint leads to strong correlations between the particles, described by correlation profiles, which measure the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-09 Aurélien Grabsch , Théotim Berlioz , Pierre Rizkallah , Pierre Illien , Olivier Bénichou

We employ Statistical Field Theory techniques for coarse-graining the steady-state properties of Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles. The computation is carried on in the framework of the Unified Colored Noise approximation that allows an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-27 Matteo Paoluzzi , Claudio Maggi , Andrea Crisanti

We present a new approach to the dynamics of interacting particles with reaction and diffusion. Starting from the underlying discrete stochastic jump process we derive a general field theory describing the dynamics of the density field,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexei Andreanov , Giulio Biroli , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud , Alexandre Lefevre

Minimal models of active and driven particles have recently been used to elucidate many properties non-equilibrium systems. However, the relation between energy consumption and changes in the structure and transport properties of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-03 Clara del Junco , Laura Tociu , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

We calculate the diffusion coefficient of an active tracer in a schematic crowded environment, represented as a lattice gas of passive particles with hardcore interactions. Starting from the master equation of the problem, we put forward a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-02 Pierre Rizkallah , Alessandro Sarracino , Olivier Bénichou , Pierre Illien

This work proposes stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) as a practical tool to replicate clustering effects of more detailed particle-based dynamics. Inspired by membrane-mediated receptor dynamics on cell surfaces, we…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-22 Nathalie Wehlitz , Mohsen Sadeghi , Alberto Montefusco , Christof Schütte , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Stefanie Winkelmann

We investigate single-particle diffusion in a two-state Langevin model where the friction coefficient randomly switches between low-friction (liquid-like) and high-friction (glassy-like) states. The dynamics are governed by the ratio…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Fivos Perakis , Takeshi Kawasaki , Shinji Saito

Motivated by the anomalous diffusion observed in clusters of active Brownian particles (ABPs), where the center-of-mass diffusion coefficient scales as $D\sim N^{-1/2}$ with respect to the number $N$ of particles in the cluster, we derive a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-07 Daniela Moretti , Pasquale Digregorio , Giuseppe Gonnella , Antonio Suma

We derive an analytic expression for the distribution of velocities of multiple interacting active particles which we test by numerical simulations. In clear contrast with equilibrium we find that the velocities are coupled to positions.…

We review various methods to investigate the statics and the dynamics of collective composition fluctuations in dense polymer mixtures within fluctuating-field approaches. The central idea of fluctuating-field theories is to rewrite the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcus Mueller , Friederike Schmid

While the theory of diffusion of a single Brownian particle in confined geometries is well-established by now, we discuss here the theoretical framework necessary to generalize the theory of diffusion to dense suspensions of strongly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-12-18 H. Löwen , M. Heinen

We provide a detailed multiscale analysis of a system of particles interacting through a dynamical network of links. Starting from a microscopic model, via the mean field limit, we formally derive coupled kinetic equations for the particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Julien Barré , Pierre Degond , Ewelina Zatorska

Thermal fluctuations are a fundamental feature of dissipative systems that are essential for understanding physics near the expected critical point of QCD and in small systems. When such fluctuations are modeled naively in relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Nicki Mullins , Mauricio Hippert , Jorge Noronha

A mass ejection model in a time-dependent random environment with both temporal and spatial correlations is introduced. When the environment has a finite correlation length, individual particle trajectories are found to diffuse at large…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-28 Giorgio Krstulovic , Rehab Bitane , Jeremie Bec

In this work, the short-time dynamics of simple liquid is explored both analytically and numerically with the focus on the interplay between the density fluctuations in a volume surrounding a chosen particle and its random walk motion. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-26 Eugene B. Postnikov

The objective of this study is to understand the dynamics of freely evolving particle suspensions over a wide range of particle-to-fluid density ratios. The dynamics of particle suspensions are characterized by the average momentum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-29 Vahid Tavanashad , Alberto Passalacqua , Shankar Subramaniam

The steady state of a driven dense ensemble of two-level atoms is determined from the competition of coherent laser excitation and decay that acts in a correlated way on several atoms simultaneously. We show that the presence of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 B. Olmos , D. Yu , I. Lesanovsky

Stochastic mechanics is based on the hypothesis that all matter is subject to universal modified Brownian motion. In this report, we calculated probability density distributions using concepts of stochastic mechanics independent of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Nathaniel A. Lynd

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Michele Coti Zelati , Lucas Ertzbischoff , David Gerard-Varet

We experimentally, numerically and analytically explore the diffusive transport of active colloidal particles with sensory delay, navigating motility landscapes in which the self-propulsion speed depends on space. We show how the transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Adrià Garcés , Ueli Töpfer , Lucio Isa , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga