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We investigate a system of Brownian particles weakly bound by attractive parity-symmetric potentials that grow at large distances as $V(x) \sim |x|^\alpha$, with $0 < \alpha < 1$. The probability density function $P(x,t)$ at long times…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-24 Lucianno Defaveri , Eli Barkai , David A. Kessler

We study the Brownian motion of a single particle coupled to an external ac field in a two-dimensional random potential. We find that for small fields a large-scale vorticity pattern of the steady-state net currents emerges, a consequence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim A. Makeev , Imre Derényi , Albert-László Barabási

In this work we study a two-dimensional system composed by Active Brownian Particles (ABPs) interacting via a repulsive potential with two-length-scales, a soft shell and a hard-core. Depending on the ratio between the strength of the soft…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-19 Jose Martin-Roca , Raul Martinez , Fernando Martinez-Pedrero , Jorge Ramirez , Chantal Valeriani

We have performed a case study investigating a recently proposed scheme to obtain an effective pair potential for active Brownian particles [Farage et al., Phys. Rev. E 91, 042310 (2015)]. Applying this scheme to the Lennard-Jones…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-05 Markus Rein , Thomas Speck

We consider Brownian particles with the ability to take up energy from the environment, to store it in an internal depot, and to convert internal energy into kinetic energy of motion. Provided a supercritical supply of energy, these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frank Schweitzer , Benno Tilch , Werner Ebeling

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

We investigate the motion of a single particle moving on a two-dimensional square lattice whose sites are occupied by right and left rotators. These left and right rotators deterministically rotate the particle's velocity to the right or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-27 Shradha Mishra , Sanchari Bhattacharya , Benjamin Webb , E. G. D. Cohen

We study the diffusive motion of a particle in a subharmonic potential of the form $U(x)=|x|^c$ ($0<c<2$) driven by long-range correlated, stationary fractional Gaussian noise $\xi_{\alpha}(t)$ with $0<\alpha\le2$. In the absence of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-13 Tobias Guggenberger , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

Optically trapped particles are often subject to a non-conservative scattering force arising from radiation pressure. In this paper we present an exact solution for the steady state statistics of an overdamped Brownian particle subjected to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-15 M. Mangeat , T. Guérin , D. S. Dean

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

Active and diffusive motion in Brownian particles are regularly observed in fluidic environments, albeit at different time scales. Here, we experimentally study the dynamics of highly asymmetric microclusters trapped in air employing…

We study the dynamics of a quantum or classical particle in a two-dimensional rotating anisotropic harmonic potential. By a sequence of symplectic transformations for constant rotation velocity we find uncoupled normal generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 I. Lizuain , A. Tobalina , A. Rodriguez-Prieto , J. G. Muga

Active transport of biomolecular condensates and cell migration in collectives are fundamental to development, homeostasis, and processes such as cancer progression, wound healing, and infection response. Yet how these assemblies are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-24 Hossein Vahid , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Abhinav Sharma

We consider a periodic Riesz gas consisting of $N$ classical particles on a circle, interacting via a two-body repulsive potential which behaves locally as a power law of the distance, $\sim g/|x|^s$ for $s>-1$. Long range (LR) interactions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-04 Leo Touzo , Pierre Le Doussal , Gregory Schehr

We report a theoretical study of an overdamped Brownian particle dynamics in the presence of both a spatially modulated one-dimensional periodic potential and a periodic alternating force (AF). As the periodic potential has a low symmetry…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. V. Fistul

We consider the motion of an underdamped Brownian particle in a tilted periodic potential in a wide temperature range. Based on the previous data [1] and the new simulation results we show that the underdamped motion of particles in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-17 I. G. Marchenko , I. I. Marchenko , A. V. Zhiglo

Many active particles are embedded in environments that exhibit viscoelastic properties. An important class of such media lacks a single characteristic relaxation timescale when subjected to a time-dependent stress. Rather, the stress…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 David Santiago Quevedo , Monica Conte , Marjolein Dijkstra , Cristiane Morais Smith

We study a particle system with hopping (random walk) dynamics on the integer lattice $\mathbb Z^d$. The particles can exist in two states, active or inactive (sleeping); only the former can hop. The dynamics conserves the number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-22 Ronald Dickman , Leonardo T. Rolla , Vladas Sidoravicius

A dilute suspension of motile microorganisms subjected to a strong ambient flow, such as algae in the ocean, can be modelled as a population of non-interacting, orientable active Brownian particles (ABPs). Using the Smoluchowski equation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-21 Lloyd Fung , Rachel N. Bearon , Yongyun Hwang

In this study, we investigate the behavior of inertial active Brownian particles in a $d$-dimensional harmonic trap in the presence of translational diffusion. While the solution of the Fokker-Planck equation is generally challenging, it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-08 Manish Patel , Debasish Chaudhuri