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We study the dynamics of circular active particles (AP) on a two dimensional periodic undulated surface. Each particle has an internal energy mechanism which is modeled by an active friction force and it is controlled by an activity…

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We study the dynamics of a tracer particle, which performs a totally directed random walk in an adsorbed monolayer composed of mobile hard-core particles undergoing continuous exchanges with a vapour phase. In terms of a mean-field-type…

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Despite extensive progress in characterizing the emergent behavior of active matter, the microscopic origins of self-diffusion in interacting active systems remain poorly understood. Here, we develop a framework that quantitatively links…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-21 Akinlade Akintunde , Stewart A. Mallory

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

Various challenges are faced when animalcules such as bacteria, protozoa, algae, or sperms move autonomously in aqueous media at low Reynolds number. These active agents are subject to strong stochastic fluctuations, that compete with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-16 Christina Kurzthaler , Sebastian Leitmann , Thomas Franosch

Many active particles are embedded in environments that exhibit viscoelastic properties. An important class of such media lacks a single characteristic relaxation timescale when subjected to a time-dependent stress. Rather, the stress…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 David Santiago Quevedo , Monica Conte , Marjolein Dijkstra , Cristiane Morais Smith

We analyze the microscopic model of quantum Brownian motion, describing a Brownian particle interacting with a bosonic bath through a coupling which is linear in the creation and annihilation operators of the bath, but may be a nonlinear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-17 Pietro Massignan , Aniello Lampo , Jan Wehr , Maciej Lewenstein

Using dynamical density functional theory (DDFT), we theoretically study Brownian self-diffusion and structural relaxation of hard disks and compare to experimental results on quasi two-dimensional colloidal hard spheres. To this end, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-04 Daniel Stopper , Alice Thorneywork , Roel Dullens , Roland Roth

The present work investigates the asymptotic behaviors, at the zero-noise limit, of the first collision-time and first collision-location related to a pair of self-stabilizing diffusions and of their related particle approximations. These…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Jean-Francois Jabir , Julian Tugaut

In this paper, we report a Brownian dynamics simulation of the mobility-induced phase separation which occurs in a two-dimensional binary mixture of active soft Brownian particles, whose interactions are modeled by non-additive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-23 D. Jiménez-Flores , A. Rodríguez-Rivas , J. M. Romero-Enrique

Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy from their environment and converting it into directed motion.…

We employ computer simulations to study the dynamics of a self-propelled spherical tracer particle in a viscoelastic medium, made of a long polymer chain. Here, the interplay between viscoelasticity, stickiness, and activity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-16 Ramanand Singh Yadav , Chintu Das , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

We study the position distribution of an active Brownian particle (ABP) in the presence of stochastic resetting in two spatial dimensions. We consider three different resetting protocols : (I) where both position and orientation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-20 Vijay Kumar , Onkar Sadekar , Urna Basu

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with long-range correlations in time; it has been shown to be a useful model of anomalous diffusion. Here, we investigate the effects of mutual interactions in an ensemble of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-15 Jonathan House , Rashad Bakhshizada , Skirmantas Janušonis , Ralf Metzler , Thomas Vojta

We consider a microswimmer that moves in two dimensions at a constant speed and changes the direction of its motion due to a torque consisting of a constant and a fluctuating component. The latter will be modeled by a symmetric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Joerg Noetel , Igor M. Sokolov , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

We discuss the two-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle that is confined to a harmonic trap and driven by a shear flow. The surrounding medium induces memory effects modelled by a linear, typically nonreciprocal coupling of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-26 Lea Fernandez , Siegfried Hess , Sabine H. L. Klapp

The pressure of suspensions of self-propelled objects is studied theoretically and by simulation of spherical active Brownian particles (ABP). We show that for certain geometries, the mechanical pressure as force/area of a confined systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-03 Roland G. Winkler , Adam Wysocki , Gerhard Gompper

We investigate the stochastic dynamics of one sedimenting active Brownian particle in three dimensions under the influence of gravity and passive fluctuations in the translational and rotational motion. We present an analytical solution of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-24 Jérémy Vachier , Marco G. Mazza

The diffusive transport of biased Brownian particles in a two-dimensional symmetric channel is investigated numerically considering both the no-flow and the reflection boundary conditions at the channel boundaries. Here, the geometrical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-10 Narender Khatri , P. S. Burada

The dynamical properties and diffusive behavior of a collection of mutually interacting particles are numerically investigated for two types of long-range interparticle interactions: Coulomb-electrostatic and dipole-electrodynamic. It is…