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We study an information-based mechanism of self-propulsion in noisy environment. An information swimmer maintains directional motion by periodically measuring its velocity and accordingly adjusting its friction coefficient. Assuming that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-18 Chen Huang , Mingnan Ding , Xiangjun Xing

We revisit the elementary problem of moving a particle in a harmonic trap in finite time with minimal work cost, and extend it to the case of an active particle. By comparing the Gaussian case of an Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-16 Janik Schüttler , Rosalba Garcia-Millan , Michael E. Cates , Sarah A. M. Loos

An information particle can acquire active-like motion through transforming the information entropy into effective self-propulsion velocity/force using the attached information engine. We consider an underdamped Brownian particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-09 Xin Song , Xiji Shao , Yanwen Zhu , Cheng Yang , Linli He , Shigeyuki Komura , Zhanglin Hou

We study an information engine operating in an active bath, where a Brownian particle confined in a harmonic trap undergoes feedback-driven displacement cycles. Unlike thermal environments, active baths exhibit temporally correlated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-27 Sehoon Bahng , Jae Sung Lee , Cheol-Min Ghim

We study the first-passage dynamics of a non-Markovian stochastic process with time-averaged feedback, which we model as a one-dimensional Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process wherein the particle drift is modified by the empirical mean of its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-16 Francesco Coghi , Romain Duvezin , John S. Wettlaufer

A self-propelled artificial microswimmer is often modeled as a ballistic Brownian particle moving with constant speed aligned along one of its axis, but changing direction due to random collisions with the environment. Similarly to thermal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-08 Pulak K. Ghosh , Yunyun Li , Giampiero Marchegiani , Fabio Marchesoni

The Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Particle (OUP) model imagines a microscopic swimmer propelled by an active force which is correlated with itself on a finite time-scale. Here we investigate the influence of external potentials on an ideal suspension…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-09 Cato Sandford , Alexander Y. Grosberg

Feedback control uses the state information of the system to actuate on it. The information used implies an effective entropy reduction of the controlled system, potentially increasing its performance. How to compute this entropy reduction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-12 Natalia Ruiz-Pino , Daniel Villarubia-Moreno , Antonio Prados , Francisco J. Cao-García

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

Several integrate-to-threshold models with differing temporal integration mechanisms have been proposed to describe the accumulation of sensory evidence to a prescribed level prior to motor response in perceptual decision-making tasks. An…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-01-16 Xiang Zhou , KongFatt Wong-Lin , Philip Holmes

We discuss a micro-swimmer model made of three spheres actuated by an internal active time-periodic force, tied by an elastic potential and submitted to hydrodynamic interactions with thermal noise. The dynamical approach we use, replacing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-23 R. Ferretta , R. Di Leonardo , A. Puglisi

Self-propelled particles, which convert energy into mechanical motion, exhibit inertia if they have a macroscopic size or move inside a gaseous medium, in contrast to micron-sized overdamped particles immersed in a viscous fluid. Here we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-08 G. H. Philipp Nguyen , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen

We establish an important connection between coherent quantum feedback and the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process in quantum optics. We show that an emitter with fluctuating energy levels in front of a mirror results in an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Alexander Carmele , Scott Parkins , Andreas Knorr

Adaptive physical and biological systems continually process fluctuating information from their environments. When the environment is nonstationary, inference itself becomes a nonequilibrium process with thermodynamic cost. We analyse a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-23 Aditya Gupta

We explore the self-propulsion of an active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle with a non-linear velocity dependent friction. Using analytical approach and numerical simulation, we have exactly investigated the dynamical behaviour of the particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-15 N Arsha , M Sahoo

The current study presents a systematic investigation of the locomotion performance of a swimmer with a wide range of parameter settings. Two-dimensional simulations with the immersed boundary method are employed for the fluid-structure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-21 Wenkang Wang , Xu Chu

We investigate a one-dimensional model of active motion, which takes into account the effects of persistent self-propulsion through a memory function in a dissipative-like term of the generalized Langevin equation for particle swimming…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-25 Francisco J. Sevilla , Rosalío F. Rodríguez , Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano

We study the elementary problem of moving an active particle by a trap with minimum work input. We show analytically that (open-loop) optimal protocols are not affected by activity, but work fluctuations are always increased. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-10 Rosalba Garcia-Millan , Janik Schüttler , Michael E. Cates , Sarah A. M. Loos

A system of ferromagnetic particles trapped at a liquid-liquid interface and subjected to a set of magnetic fields (magnetocapillary swimmers) is studied numerically using a hybrid method combining the pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann…

A pinned-free beam in axial fluid flow, subjected to feedback-based actuation at the pinned end, is investigated. The actuation may be a moment or a prescribed angle and it is proportional to the state (curvature, slope, or displacement) of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-07 Sanders Aspelund , Ranjan Mukherjee , Aren Hellum
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