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Active Brownian particles (ABPs) represent a minimal model of active matter consisting of self-propelled spheres with purely repulsive interactions and rotational noise. Here, we examine the pressure of ABPs in two dimensions in both closed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-11 Adam Patch , David Yllanes , M. Cristina Marchetti

The diffusion behavior of an active Brownian particle (ABP) in polymer solutions is studied using Langevin dynamics simulations. We find that the long time diffusion coefficient $D$ can show a non-monotonic dependence on the particle size…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-11 Yunfei Du , Zhonghuai Hou

We derive a microscopic expression for a quantity $\mu$ that plays the role of chemical potential of Active Brownian Particles (ABPs) in a steady state in the absence of vortices. We show that $\mu$ consists of (i) an intrinsic chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-17 Siddharth Paliwal , Jeroen Rodenburg , René van Roij , Marjolein Dijkstra

Active matter concerns the self-organization of energy consuming elements such as motile bacteria or self-propelled colloids. A canonical example is an active Brownian particle (ABP) that moves at constant speed while its direction of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-21 Paul C Bressloff

The extreme value statistics of active matter offer significant insight into their unique properties. A phase transition has recently been reported in a model of branching run-and-tumble particles, describing the spatial spreading of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-11 Bertrand Lacroix-A-Chez-Toine , Asaf Miron

A particle diffusing around a point of stable mechanical equilibrium in a static but non-conservative force field enters into a steady state characterized by circulation in the probability flux. Circulation in such a Brownian vortex is not…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-17 Bo Sun , Jiayi Lin , Ellis Darby , Alexander Y. Grosberg , David G. Grier

This work proposes a method for the two-dimensional simulation of Brownian particles in a fluid with restrictions. The method is based on simple numerical rules between two matrices. One of the matrix represent the identification of all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-24 Eric Plaza

We study the positive occupation time of a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) subject to stochastic resetting. Under the resetting protocol, the position of the particle is reset to the origin at a random sequence of times that is generated by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-04 Paul C Bressloff

We consider the active Brownian particle (ABP) model for a two-dimensional microswimmer with fixed speed, whose direction of swimming changes according to a Brownian process. The probability density for the swimmer evolves according to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-01 Hongfei Chen , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

We consider the thermal and athermal overdamped motion of particles in 1D geometries where discrete internal degrees of freedom (spin) are coupled with the translational motion. Adding a driving velocity that depends on the time-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-21 Thibaut Demaerel , Christian Maes

We consider a model of active Brownian particles with velocity-alignment in two spatial dimensions with passive and active fluctuations. Hereby, active fluctuations refers to purely non-equilibrium stochastic forces correlated with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Grossmann , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Pawel Romanczuk

We carry out a comprehensive linear stability analysis of active Brownian particle systems around a constant homogeneous state. These scalar models, being important prototypes for the continuous description of active matter, are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Michele Coti Zelati , Lucas Ertzbischoff , David Gerard-Varet

We present an exact, time-resolved theory for a two-dimensional chiral active Brownian particle (cABP) with translational inertia. Using a Laplace-transform moment hierarchy, we derive closed-form expressions for the mean velocity,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-25 Anweshika Pattanayak , Sandip Roy , Abhishek Chaudhuri

Stochastic motion of particles in a highly unstable potential generates a number of diverging trajectories leading to undefined statistical moments of the particle position. This makes experiments challenging and breaks down a standard…

We consider the rotation of neutrally buoyant axisymmetric particles suspended in isotropic turbulence. Using laboratory experiments as well as numerical and analytical calculations, we explore how particle rotation depends upon particle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-09 M. Byron , J. Einarsson , K. Gustavsson , G. Voth , B. Mehlig , E. Variano

We present a general framework to study the distribution of the flux through the origin up to time $t$, in a non-interacting one-dimensional system of particles with a step initial condition with a fixed density $\rho$ of particles to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-06 Tirthankar Banerjee , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso , Gregory Schehr

We develop a closed-form analytical theory for the transport of a chiral active Brownian particle (cABP) in three dimensions, moving through a fluctuating local density field that coarse-grains steric and dynamical interactions in a dense…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-25 Jayam Joshi , Shradha Mishra

We develop a minimal theoretical model that reveals a structured steady-state flux field with four alternating local circulation, a phenomenon we refer to as quadrupolar gyration. A passive Brownian particle is confined to move in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-13 Iman Abdoli , Hartmut Löwen

We study the dynamics of the separation (gap) between a pair of interacting run and tumble particles (RTPs) moving in one dimension in the presence of additional thermal noise. On a ring geometry the distribution of the gap approaches a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Arghya Das , Abhishek Dhar , Anupam Kundu

We use a first-passage time approach to study the statistics of the trapping times induced by persistent motion of active particles colliding with flat boundaries. The angular first-passage time distribution and mean first-passage time is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-02 Emily Qing Zang Moen , Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Jonas Rønning , Luiza Angheluta