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Spreading processes on top of active dynamics provide a novel theoretical framework for capturing emerging collective behavior in living systems. I consider run-and-tumble dynamics coupled with coagulation/decoagulation reactions that lead…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-29 Matteo Paoluzzi

We introduce and study a model in one dimension of $N$ run-and-tumble particles (RTP) which repel each other logarithmically in the presence of an external quadratic potential. This is an "active'' version of the well-known Dyson Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-27 Leo Touzo , Pierre Le Doussal , Gregory Schehr

Mixtures of active and passive particles are ubiquitous at the microscale. Many essential microbial processes involve interactions with dead or immotile cells or passive crowders. When passive objects are immersed in active baths, their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-24 Horacio Serna , C. Miguel Barriuso G. , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Marco Polin , Chantal Valeriani

We study $N$ run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) in one dimension interacting via a double-well potential $W(r)=-k_0 \, r^2/2+g \, r^4/4$, which is repulsive at short interparticle distance $r$ and attractive at large distance. At large time,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-26 Léo Touzo , Pierre Le Doussal

We investigate the transport of interacting active run-and-tumble particles moving under an external drift force through a periodic array of obstacles for increasing drive amplitudes. For high activity where the system forms a motility…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Run-and-tumble particles constitute one of the simplest models of self-propelled active matter, and provide an ideal playground to the understanding of out-of-equilibrium systems. We consider an idealized setup where one such particle is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-05 Marco Baldovin , Alessandro Manacorda

We show that transport in the presence of entropic barriers exhibits peculiar characteristics which makes it distinctly different from that occurring through energy barriers. The constrained dynamics yields a scaling regime for the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Reguera , G. Schmid , P. S. Burada , J. M. Rubí , P. Hänggi

We derive an analytical expression for the transition path time (TPT) distribution for a one-dimensional particle crossing a parabolic barrier. The solution is expressed in terms of the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the associated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-10 Michele Caraglio , Stefanie Put , Enrico Carlon , Carlo Vanderzande

The migration of active particles in slowly moving, crowded, and heterogeneous media is fundamental to various biological processes and technological applications, such as cargo transport. In this study, we numerically investigate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-04 Meng-Yuan Li , Ning Zheng , Yan-Wei Li

A uniform dimensional result for normally reflected Brownian motion (RBM) in a large class of non-smooth domains is established. Exact Hausdorff dimensions for the boundary occupation time and the boundary trace of RBM are given. Extensions…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Itai Benjamini , Zhen-Qing Chen , Steffen Rohde

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

The transport of active particles may occur in complex environments, in which it emerges from the interplay between the mobility of the active components and the quenched disorder of the environment. Here we explore structural and dynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-31 Fergus J. Moore , John Russo Tanniemola B. Liverpool , C. Patrick Royall

We study two interacting identical run and tumble particles (RTP's) in one dimension. Each particle is driven by a telegraphic noise, and in some cases, also subjected to a thermal white noise with a corresponding diffusion constant $D$. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-05 Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

Self-propulsion in run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) generates effective attractive interactions that can drive motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), a phenomenon absent in passive systems. Here, we investigate RTPs in the presence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Abir Bhowmick , Sayantan Mitra , P. K. Mohanty

We study the dynamics of a single inertial run-and-tumble particle on a straight line. The motion of this particle is characterized by two intrinsic time-scales, namely, an inertial and an active time-scale. We show that interplay of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-21 Debraj Dutta , Anupam Kundu , Urna Basu

A simple model for the nonlinear collective transport of interacting particles in a random medium with strong disorder is introduced and analyzed. A finite threshold for the driving force divides the behavior into two regimes characterized…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Joe Watson , Daniel S. Fisher

Statistical-mechanical models often exhibit a dimension-dependent solvability: in 1D, exact solutions are straightforward; in 2D, solutions are exact but require nontrivial derivations; and in 3D, closed-form solutions are typically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-16 Derek Frydel

The connection between absorbing boundary conditions and hard walls is well established in the mathematical literature for a variety of stochastic models, including for instance the Brownian motion. In this paper we explore this duality for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-24 Mathis Guéneau , Léo Touzo

Active Brownian particles (ABPs, such as self-phoretic colloids) swim at fixed speed $v$ along a body-axis ${\bf u}$ that rotates by slow angular diffusion. Run-and-tumble particles (RTPs, such as motile bacteria) swim with constant $\u$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-27 M. E. Cates , J. Tailleur

We study the extreme value statistics of a run and tumble particle (RTP) in one dimension till its first passage to the origin starting from the position $x_0~(>0)$. This model has recently drawn a lot of interest due to its biological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-07 Prashant Singh , Saikat Santra , Anupam Kundu