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Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Amer Al-Hiyasat , Sunghan Ro , Julien Tailleur

Non-reciprocal interactions play a key role in shaping transport in active and passive systems, giving rise to striking nonequilibrium behavior. Here, we study the dynamics of a tracer -- active or passive -- embedded in a bath of active or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-08 Subhajit Paul , Debasish Chaudhuri

We develop a theoretical framework to study the effective dynamics of a tracer immersed in a nonequilibrium bath consisting of active particles. By using a mean-field approximation and extending the linearized Dean equation to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-04 Mengkai Feng , Zhonghuai Hou

We study the dynamics of a zero-temperature overdamped tracer in a bath of Brownian particles. As the bath density is increased, numerical simulations show the tracer to transition from an active dynamics, characterized by boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Amer Al-Hiyasat , Sunghan Ro , Julien Tailleur

We consider a driven tracer particle (TP) in a bath of hard-core particles undergoing continuous exchanges with a reservoir. We develop an analytical framework which allows us to go beyond the standard force-velocity relation used for this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 O. Bénichou , P. Illien , G. Oshanin , R. Voituriez

We derive the long-time dynamics of a tracer immersed in a one-dimensional active bath. In contrast to previous studies, we find that the damping and noise correlations possess long-time tails with exponents that depend on the tracer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-26 Omer Granek , Yariv Kafri , Julien Tailleur

The dynamics of a tracer particle in a bath of quasi-hard colloidal spheres is studied by Langevin dynamics simulations and mode coupling theory (MCT); the tracer radius is varied from equal to up to 7 times larger than the bath particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-01 Francisco Orts , Manuel Maier , Matthias Fuchs , Gloria Ortega , Ester M. Garzón , Antonio M. Puertas

We study the induced dynamics of an inertial tracer particle elastically coupled to passive or active Brownian particles. We integrate out the environment degrees of freedom to obtain generalized Langevin equation for the tracer dynamics in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-16 Ion Santra

The analysis of the dynamics of tracer particles in a complex bath can provide valuable information about the microscopic behaviour of the bath. In this work, we study the dynamics of a forced tracer in a colloidal bath by means of Langevin…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-24 Francisco Orts , Gloria Ortega , Ester M. Garzon , Matthias Fuchs , Antonio M. Puertas

Quantifying the correlations between the position of a tagged tracer and the density of surrounding bath particles is crucial for understanding tracer diffusion in interacting particle systems, and for characterizing the response properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-16 Davide Venturelli , Pierre Illien , Aurélien Grabsch , Olivier Bénichou

We study a polar tracer, having a concave surface, immersed in a two-dimensional suspension of active particles. Using Brownian dynamics simulations, we measure the distributions and auto-correlation functions of forces and torque exerted…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-30 Milos Knezevic , Holger Stark

We investigate the effective diffusion of a tracer immersed in an active particle bath consisting of self-propelled particles. Utilising the Dean's method developed for the equilibrium bath and extending it to the nonequilibrium situation,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-27 Mengkai Feng , Zhonghuai Hou

We study the dynamics of a tracer in a dense mixture of particles connected to different thermostats. Starting from the overdamped Langevin equations that describe the evolution of the system, we derive the expression of the self-diffusion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-28 Marie Jardat , Vincent Dahirel , Pierre Illien

We study how the stationary dynamics of an oscillator chain is modified when coupled to a bath of run-and-tumble particles. First, assuming time-scale separation, we derive the induced Langevin chain dynamics with explicit expressions for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-18 Aaron Beyen , Christian Maes , Ion Santra

We exactly analyze the vibrational properties of a chain of harmonic oscillators in contact with local Langevin heat baths. Nonequilibrium steady-state fluctuations are found to be described by a set of mode-temperatures, independent of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-13 Gianmaria Falasco , Marco Baiesi , Leo Molinaro , Livia Conti , Fulvio Baldovin

We follow the dynamics of an ensemble of interacting self-propelled semi-flexible polymers in contact with a thermal bath. We characterize structure and dynamics of the passive system and as a function of the motor activity. We find that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-14 Davide Loi , Stefano Mossa , Leticia F. Cugliandolo

We analyze the dynamics of a tracer particle embedded in a bath of hard spheres confined in a channel of varying section. By means of Brownian dynamics simulations we apply a constant force on the tracer particle and discuss the dependence…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-14 Antonio M. Puertas , Paolo Malgaretti , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

The dynamics and the steady states of a point-like tracer particle immersed in a confined critical fluid are studied. The fluid is modeled field-theoretically in terms of an order parameter (concentration or density field) obeying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-03 Markus Gross

We probe non-equilibrium properties of an active bacterial bath through measurements of correlations of passive tracer particles and the response function of a driven, optically trapped tracer. These measurements demonstrate violation of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 D. T. N. Chen , A. W. C. Lau , L. A. Hough , M. F. Islam , M. Goulian , T. C. Lubensky , A. G. Yodh

We explore the relaxation dynamics of a tracer in a harmonic trap coupled to a non-equilibrium bath particle in stationary state, finding qualitative differences compared to the well known equilibrium case. These can be attributed to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-16 Ion Santra , Matthias Krüger
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