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Understanding stochastic thermodynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) system has been an important topic in very recent years. In this article we study a general model of active Brownian particle systems by introducing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-11 Zhiyu Cao , Jie Su , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

The second law of thermodynamics sets a lower bound on the work required to drive a system between thermal equilibrium states, with equality attained in the quasistatic limit. For finite-time processes, part of the extractable work is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Masaaki Tokieda

What are the fundamental limitations for finite-time engines that extract work from active nonequilibrium systems, and what are the optimal protocols that approach them? We show that the finite-time work extraction for nonconservative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-22 Adrianne Zhong , Adam G. Frim , Michael R. DeWeese

A diverse range of natural and artificial self-propelled particles are known and are used nowadays. Among them, active Brownian particles (ABPs) and run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) are two important classes. We numerically study…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-02 Maryam Khatami , Katrin Wolff , Oliver Pohl , Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi , Holger Stark

Because of its nonequilibrium character, active matter in a steady state can drive engines that autonomously deliver work against a constant mechanical force or torque. As a generic model for such an engine, we consider systems that contain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-15 Patrick Pietzonka , Étienne Fodor , Christoph Lohrmann , Michael E. Cates , Udo Seifert

A random search of a partially absorbing target by a run-and-tumble particle in a confined one-dimensional space is investigated. We analytically obtain the mean searching time, which shows a non-monotonic behavior as a function of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-09 Euijin Jeon , Byeongguk Go , Yong Woon Kim

The amount of extractable work from a physical system is fundamentally connected to the information available about its state, as illustrated by Maxwell's demon and the Gibbs paradox. In standard thermodynamic protocols involving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Tanmoy Biswas

We examine the interplay of motility and information exchange in a model of run-and-tumble active particles where the particle's motility is encoded as a bit of information that can be exchanged upon contact according to the rules of AND…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-25 Matteo Paoluzzi , Marco Leoni , M Cristina Marchetti

We elaborate and validate a generalization of the renowned transition-path-sampling algorithm for a paradigmatic model of active particles, namely the Run-and-Tumble particles. Notwithstanding the non-equilibrium character of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-20 Thomas Kiechl , Thomas Franosch , Michele Caraglio

We study the transport of self-propelled noninteracting active Brownian particles (ABPs) and run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) in long tubes of varying widths. Using a moment expansion, we construct a generalized Fick-Jacobs framework for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-16 Yongfeng Zhao

Active work measures how far the local self-forcing of active particles translates into real motion. Using Population Monte Carlo methods, we investigate large deviations in the active work for repulsive active Brownian disks. Minimizing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-12 Takahiro Nemoto , Étienne Fodor , Michael E. Cates , Robert L. Jack , Julien Tailleur

Combining experiments on active colloids, whose propulsion velocity can be controlled via a feedback loop, and theory of active Brownian motion, we explore the dynamics of an overdamped active particle with a motility that depends…

Isothermal information engines operate by extracting net work from a single heat bath through measurement and feedback control. In this work, we analyze a realistic active Szilard engine operating on a single active particle by means of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-15 Luca Cocconi , Paolo Malgaretti , Holger Stark

Active particles self-propel themselves with a stochastically evolving velocity, generating a persistent motion leading to a non-diffusive behavior of the position distribution. Nevertheless, an effective diffusive behavior emerges at times…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Ion Santra , Urna Basu , Sanjib Sabhapandit

Active matter constantly dissipates energy to power the self-propulsion of its microscopic constituents. This opens the door to designing innovative cyclic engines without any equilibrium equivalent. We offer a consistent thermodynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-08 Timothy Ekeh , Michael E. Cates , Étienne Fodor

The tradeoff relation between speed and cost is a central issue in designing fast and efficient information processing devices. We derive an achievable bound on thermodynamic cost for obtaining information through finite-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-16 Rihito Nagase , Takahiro Sagawa

We introduce and characterize different models for an active quantum particle where activity arises from engineered dissipation-- specifically, from a suitably coupled nonequilibrium environment. These include a model of a particle moving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Jeanne Gipouloux , Matteo Brunelli , Leticia Cugliandolo , Rosario Fazio , Marco Schirò

We present an optimal control procedure for the non-adiabatic transport of ultracold neutral thermal atoms in optical tweezers arranged in a one-dimensional array, with focus on reaching minimal transfer time. The particle dynamics are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Omar Morandi , Sara Nicoletti , Vladislav Gavryusev , Leonardo Fallani

The energetic optimization problem, e.g., searching for the optimal switch- ing protocol of certain system parameters to minimize the input work, has been extensively studied by stochastic thermodynamics. In current work, we study this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-07 Linchen Gong , Ming Li , Zhong-can Ou-yang

The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process of diffusion in the harmonic potential is re-examined in the context of the first-passage time problem. We investigate this problem to the extent that it has not yet been fully resolved and demonstrate exact…

General Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Przemyslaw Chelminiak