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We investigate the dynamics of an inertial chiral active Brownian particle in the presence of a harmonic confinement. Through numerical simulation, we observe that when the harmonic frequency becomes comparable to the chiral frequency, the…

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We derive a mode-coupling theory (MCT) to describe the dynamics of tracer particles in dense systems of active Brownian particles (ABPs) in two spatial dimensions. The ABP undergo translational and rotational Brownian dynamics, and are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-03 Julian Reichert , Suvendu Mandal , Thomas Voigtmann

We consider the impact of inertia on biased Brownian motion of point particles in a two-dimensional channel with sinusoidally varying width. If the time scales of the problem separate, the adiabatic elimination of the transverse degrees of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-20 Steffen Martens , Igor M. Sokolov , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

We consider an active Brownian particle in a $d$-dimensional harmonic trap, in the presence of translational diffusion. While the Fokker-Planck equation can not in general be solved to obtain a closed form solution of the joint distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-23 Debasish Chaudhuri , Abhishek Dhar

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

One of the key hallmarks of dense active matter in the liquid, supercooled, and solid phases is so-called equal-time velocity correlations. Crucially, these correlations can emerge spontaneously, i.e., they require no explicit alignment…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-24 Vincent E. Debets , Lila Sarfati , Thomas Voigtmann , Liesbeth M. C. Janssen

We consider the motion of an active Brownian particle with speed fluctuations in d-dimensions in the presence of both translational and orientational diffusion. We use an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process for active speed generation. Using a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-02 Amir Shee , Debasish Chaudhuri

Guiding active motion is important for targeted delivery, sensing, and search tasks. Many active systems exhibit circular swimming, ubiquitous in chemical, physical, and biological systems, that biases motion and reduces transport…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-26 Amir Shee

Inertial effects affecting both the translational and rotational dynamics are inherent to a broad range of active systems at the macroscopic scale. Thus, there is a pivotal need for proper models in the framework of active matter to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-10 Alexander R. Sprenger , Lorenzo Caprini , Hartmut Löwen , René Wittmann

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

In contrast to equilibrium systems, inertia can profoundly impact the phase behavior of active systems. This has been made particularly evident in recent years, with motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) exhibiting several intriguing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-21 Jiechao Feng , Ahmad K. Omar

We study the stationary states of an over-damped active Brownian particle (ABP) in a harmonic trap in two dimensions, via mathematical calculations and numerical simulations. In addition to translational diffusion, the ABP self-propels with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-27 Urvashi Nakul , Manoj Gopalakrishnan

We study the dynamics of inertial active particles in a one-dimensional chain with harmonic nearest-neighbor interactions, highlighting the interplay of persistence, interaction, and inertial timescales. Using a Green's function approach,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Manish Patel , Subhajit Paul , Debasish Chaudhuri

We consider an active Brownian particle moving in a disordered two-dimensional energy or motility landscape. The averaged mean-square-displacement (MSD) of the particle is calculated analytically within a systematic short-time expansion. As…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-03 Davide Breoni , Michael Schmiedeberg , Hartmut Löwen

Inertia is intrinsic to many living and synthetic active systems, from animals and robotic agents to colloidal swimmers, and it strongly shapes transport. Many such systems employ intermittent restart protocols to regulate exploration.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-25 Manish Patel , Amir Shee

We consider the solid or hexatic non-equilibrium phases of an interacting two-dimensional system of Active Brownian Particles at high density and investigate numerically and theoretically the properties of the velocity distribution function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-16 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

In this article, results have been presented for the two-time correlation functions for a free and a harmonically confined Brownian particle in a simple shear flow. For a free Brownian particle, the motion along the direction of shear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-17 D. Chakraborty

We consider the influence of active speed fluctuations on the dynamics of a $d$-dimensional active Brownian particle performing a persistent stochastic motion. We use the Laplace transform of the Fokker-Planck equation to obtain exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-08 Amir Shee , Debasish Chaudhuri

One of the most intriguing phenomena in active matter has been the gas-liquid like motility induced phase separation (MIPS) observed in repulsive active particles. However, experimentally no particle can be a perfect sphere, and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-20 Zhan Ma , Ran Ni

It is well known that path probabilities of Brownian motion correspond to the equilibrium configurational probabilities of flexible Gaussian polymers, while those of active Brownian motion correspond to in-extensible semiflexible polymers.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-14 Amir Shee , Abhishek Dhar , Debasish Chaudhuri