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The transport of self-propelled particles such as bacteria and phoretic swimmers through crowded heterogeneous environments is relevant to many natural and engineering processes, from biofilm formation and contamination processes to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-10 Roberto Alonso-Matilla , Brato Chakrabarti , David Saintillan

Biological microswimmers often inhabit a porous or crowded environment such as soil. In order to understand how such a complex environment influences their spreading, we numerically study non-interacting active Brownian particles (ABPs) in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-06 Maria Zeitz , Holger Stark

We analyze the statistical physics of self-propelled particles from a general theoretical framework that properly describes the most salient characteristic of active motion, $persistence$, in arbitrary spatial dimensions. Such a framework…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-14 Francisco J. Sevilla , Pavel Castro-Villarreal

This paper is interested in the description of the density of particles evolving according to some optimal policy of an impulse control problem. We first fix sets on which the particles jump and explain how we can characterize such a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Charles Bertucci

We consider the dynamics of self-propelled particles subject to external torques. Two models for the reorientation of self-propulsion are considered, run-and-tumble particles, and active Brownian particles. Using the standard tools of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-09 Benjamin Hancock , Aparna Baskaran

Magnetized jets in GRBs and AGNs are thought to be efficient accelerators of particles, however, the process responsible for the acceleration is still a matter of active debate. In this work, we study the kink-instability in non-rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Jordy Davelaar , Alexander A. Philippov , Omer Bromberg , Chandra B. Singh

We study analytically the order and gap statistics of particles at time $t$ for the one dimensional branching Brownian motion, conditioned to have a fixed number of particles at $t$. The dynamics of the process proceeds in continuous time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-27 Kabir Ramola , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

We study dynamic self-organisation and order-disorder transitions in a two-dimensional system of self-propelled particles. Our model is a variation of the Vicsek model, where particles align the motion to their neighbours but repel each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-02 Maksym Romenskyy , Vladimir Lobaskin

Sticky Brownian motion is the simplest example of a diffusion process that can spend finite time both in the interior of a domain and on its boundary. It arises in various applications such as in biology, materials science, and finance.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Miranda Holmes-Cerfon

We study numerically the phases and dynamics of a dense collection of self-propelled particles with soft repulsive interactions in two dimensions. The model is motivated by recent in vitro experiments on confluent monolayers of migratory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Silke Henkes , Yaouen Fily , M. Cristina Marchetti

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

A theory of Brownian motion is presented for an assembly of vortices. The attempt is motivated by a realization of Dyson' Coulomb gas in the context of quantum condensates. By starting with the time-dependent Landau-Ginzburg (LG) theory,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-07 Hiroshi Kuratsuji

We discuss the dynamics of a Brownian particle under the influence of a spatially periodic noise strength in one dimension using analytical theory and computer simulations. In the absence of a deterministic force, the Langevin equation can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-28 Davide Breoni , Ralf Blossey , Hartmut Löwen

We study a generalization of the Brownian bridge as a stochastic process that models the position and velocity of inertial particles between the two end-points of a time interval. The particles experience random acceleration and are assumed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou

By studying a system of Brownian particles, interacting only through a local social-like force (velocity alignment), we show that self-propulsion is not a necessary feature for the flocking transition to take place as long as underdamped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-31 Victor Dossetti , Francisco J. Sevilla

Active particles (i.e., self-propelled particles or called microswimmers), different from passive Brownian particles, possess more complicated translational and angular dynamics, which can generate a series of anomalous transport phenomena.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 Ze-Hao Chen , Zhi-Xi Wu

Self-propelled point-like particles move along circular trajectories when their translocation velocity is constant and the angular velocity related to their orientation vector is also constant. We investigate the collective behavior of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 Yingzi Yang , Feng Qiu , Gerhard Gompper

Active matter exhibits many intriguing non-equilibrium character, \emph{e.g.}, the active Brownian particles (ABP) without any attractive and aligned interactions can occur the mobility-induced phase transition to form some dense domains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-24 Cheng Yang , Ying Zeng , Shun Xu , Xin Zhou

Experimental realizations of self-propelled colloidal Janus particles exploit the conversion of free energy into directed motion. One route are phoretic mechanisms that can be modeled schematically as the interconversion of two chemical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Thomas Speck

We consider the properties of a one dimensional fluid of brownian inertial hard-core particles, whose microscopic dynamics is partially damped by a heat-bath. Direct interactions among the particles are represented as binary, instantaneous…

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