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Anomalous diffusion is an established phenomenon but still a theoretical challenge in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Physical models are built incrementally, and the most recent and most general family is based on the fractional…

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Active Brownian Particles are self-propelled particles that move in a dissipative medium subject to random forces, or noise . Additionally, they can be confined by an external field and/or they can interact with one another. The external…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Udo Erdmann , Werner Ebeling , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Anke Ordemann , Frank Moss

We examine the angular momentum transport properties of disks composed of macroscopic particles whose velocity dispersions are externally enhanced (``stirred''). Our simple Boltzmann equation model serves as an analogy for unmagnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eliot Quataert , Eugene I. Chiang

We investigate the overdamped dynamics of a `passive' particle driven by nonreciprocal interaction with a `driver' Brownian particle. When the interaction between them is short-ranged, the long-time behavior of the driven particle is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-24 Urna Basu , P. L. Krapivsky , Satya N. Majumdar

We study the dynamics of a self-propelled particle advected by a steady laminar flow. The persistent motion of the self-propelled particle is described by an active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We focus on the diffusivity properties of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-17 Lorenzo Caprini , Fabio Cecconi , Andrea Puglisi , Alessandro Sarracino

In this paper, we solve the joint probability density for the passive and active particles with harmonic, viscous, and perturbative forces. After deriving the Fokker-Planck equation for a passive and a run-and-tumble particles, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-10 Jae-Won Jung , Sung Kyu Seo , Kyungsik Kim

We study the motion of an overdamped particle connected to a thermal heat bath in the presence of an external periodic potential in one dimension. When we coarse-grain, i.e., bin the particle positions using bin sizes that are larger than…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-01 Lucianno Defaveri , Eli Barkai , David A. Kessler

We built and characterised a macroscopic self-assembly reactor that agitates magnetic, centimeter-sized particles with a turbulent water flow. By scaling up the self-assembly processes to the centimeter-scale, the characteristic time…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 T. A. G. Hageman , P. A. Löthman , M. Dirnberger , M. Elwenspoek , A. Manz , L. Abelmann

We study the diffusive dynamics of a Brownian particle in proximity of a flat surface under non-equilibrium conditions, which are created by an anisotropic thermal environment with different temperatures being active along distinct spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Stefano Bo , Ralf Eichhorn

We study the transport of active Brownian particles (ABPs) in three-dimensional (3D) oscillatory geometries, which are spatially periodic. We establish a generalized Fick-Jacobs approach, which reduces a 3D system to an effective 1D system…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-16 Rahul Sinha , Ankit Gupta , P. S. Burada

We study the statistical properties of the variation of the kinetic energy of a spherical Brownian particle that freely moves in an incompressible fluid at constant temperature. Based on the underdamped version of the generalized Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-10 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano

The Active Brownian Particle (ABP) model has become a prototype of self-propelled particles. ABPs move persistently at a constant speed $V$ along a direction that changes slowly by rotational diffusion, characterized by a coefficient $\Dr$.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-11 Rodrigo Soto

We present a numerical study of classical particles diffusing on a solid surface. The particles' motion is modeled by an underdamped Langevin equation with ordinary thermal noise. The particle-surface interaction is described by a periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Sancho , A. M. Lacasta , K. Lindenberg , I. M. Sokolov , A. H. Romero

Typically the motion of self-propelled active particles is described in a quiescent environment establishing an inertial frame of reference. Here we assume that friction, self-propulsion and uctuations occur relative to a non-inertial frame…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-26 Hartmut Löwen

We present an analysis of the stationary distributions of run-and-tumble particles trapped in external potentials in terms of a thermophoretic potential, that emerges when trapped active motion is mapped to trapped passive Brownian motion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-06 Francisco J. Sevilla , Alejandro V. Arzola , Enrique Puga Cital

We study analytically how noninteracting weakly active particles, for which passive Brownian diffusion cannot be neglected and activity can be treated perturbatively, distribute and behave near boundaries in various geometries. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-05 Michael Wang

We consider systems of particles hopping stochastically on $d$-dimensional lattices with space-dependent probabilities. We map the master equation onto an evolution equation in a Fock space where the dynamics are given by a quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Gunter Schuetz , Sven Sandow

We computationally study the behavior of underdamped active Brownian particles in a sheared channel geometry. Due to their underdamped dynamics, the particles carry momentum a characteristic distance away from the boundary before it is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-23 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

We show that Brownian motion is spatially not symmetric for mesoscopic particles embedded in a fluid if the particle is not in thermal equilibrium and its shape is not spherical. In view of applications on molecular motors in biological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Susan Sporer , Christian Goll , Klaus Mecke

We investigate the overdamped stochastic dynamics of a particle in an asymptotically flat external potential field, in contact with a thermal bath. For an infinite system size, the particles may escape the force field and diffuse freely at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Erez Aghion , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai