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We study the motion of charged Brownian particles in an external magnetic field. It is found that a correlation appears between the components of particle velocity in the case of anisotropic friction, approaching asymptotically zero in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Voropajeva , T. Ord

Non-typical transport phenomena may arise when randomly driven particles remain in an active relationship with the environment instead of being passive. If we attribute to Brownian particles an ability to induce alterations of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Piotr Garbaczewski

In this work, we study the dynamics of a single active Brownian particle, as well as the collective behavior of interacting active Brownian particles, in a fluctuating heterogeneous environment. We employ a variant of the diffusing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 S. M. J. Khadem , N. H. Siboni , S. H. L. Klapp

We study many interacting Brownian particles under a tilted periodic potential. We numerically measure the linear response coefficient of the density field by applying a slowly varying potential transversal to the tilted direction. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-02 Takenobu Nakamura , Shin-ichi Sasa

Active Brownian motion is the complex motion of active Brownian particles. They are active in the sense that they can transform their internal energy into energy of motion and thus create complex motion patterns. Theories of active Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-04 Alexander Gluck , Helmuth Huffel , Sasa Ilijic

While active matter physics has traditionally focused on particles with overdamped dynamics, recent years have seen an increase of experimental and theoretical work on active systems with inertia. This also leads to an increased need for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-13 Michael te Vrugt

We study the phase behavior of polar Active Brownian Particles moving in two-spatial dimensions and interacting through volume exclusion and velocity alignment. We combine particle-based simulations of the microscopic model with a simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-26 Elena Sese-Sansa , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Demian Levis

We show that dispersion in propulsion strength qualitatively alters collective behavior of active multi-particle systems interacting via short-range attractive potential, giving rise to novel ordered phases that combine spatial and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-07 Debraj Dutta , Urna Basu

The transport of active particles may occur in complex environments, in which it emerges from the interplay between the mobility of the active components and the quenched disorder of the environment. Here we explore structural and dynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-31 Fergus J. Moore , John Russo Tanniemola B. Liverpool , C. Patrick Royall

Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy from their environment and converting it into directed motion.…

We present a theory for the interaction between active particles and a passive flexible membrane. By explicitly solving for the pressure exerted by the active particles, we show that they reduce the membrane tension and bending modulus and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-22 David A. King , Thomas P. Russell , Ahmad K. Omar

We address the question of how interacting active systems in a non-equilibrium steady-state respond to an external perturbation. We establish an extended fluctuation-dissipation theorem for Active Brownian Particles (ABP) which highlights…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-14 Sara Dal Cengio , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We study the diffusion of a Brownian particle quadratically coupled to a thermally fluctuating field. In the weak coupling limit, a path-integral formulation allows to compute the effective diffusion coefficient in the cases of an active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-08 Vincent Démery

Large-scale collective behavior in suspensions of many particles can be understood from the balance of statistical forces emerging beyond the direct microscopic particle interactions. Here we review some aspects of the collective forces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-19 Thomas Speck

We solve the time-dependent Fokker-Planck equation for a two-dimensional active Brownian particle exploring a circular region with an absorbing boundary. Using the passive Brownian particle as basis states and dealing with the activity as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-23 Francesco Di Trapani , Thomas Franosch , Michele Caraglio

We derive equations of motion for the mean-squared displacement (MSD) of an active Brownian particle (ABP) in a crowded environment modeled by a dense system of passive Brownian particles, and of a passive tracer particle in a dense…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-27 Julian Reichert , Thomas Voigtmann

We investigate the emergent interactions between two active Brownian particles coupled by an attractive harmonic potential and in contact with a thermal reservoir. By analyzing the stationary distribution of their separation, we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ritwick Sarkar , Sreya Chatterjee , Urna Basu

We consider the overdamped motion of Brownian particles, interacting via particle exclusion, in an external potential that varies with time and space. We show that periodic potentials that maintain specific position-dependent phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-09 Debasish Chaudhuri , Abhishek Dhar

We use the system-plus-reservoir approach to study the dynamics of a system composed of two independent Brownian particles. We present an extension of the well-known model of a bath of oscillators which is capable of inducing an effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. S. Duarte , A. O. Caldeira

We present a theory for the steady-state dynamics of a two-dimensional system of spherically symmetric active Brownian particles. The derivation of the theory consists of two steps. First, we integrate out the self-propulsions and obtain a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-01 Grzegorz Szamel