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Active particles which are self-propelled by converting energy into mechanical motion represent an expanding research realm in physics and chemistry. For micron-sized particles moving in a liquid ("microswimmers"), most of the basic…

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We study two Brownian particles in dimension $d=1$, diffusing under an interacting resetting mechanism to a fixed position. The particles are subject to a constant drift, which biases the Brownian particles toward each other. We derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-15 Ricardo Falcao , Martin R. Evans

The problem of Brownian motion in a periodic potential, under the influence of external forcing, which is either random or periodic in time, is studied in this paper. Multiscale techniques are used to derive general formulae for the steady…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Pavliotis

The Brownian motion of a particle with higher-derivative dynamics (HDD) coupling with a bath consisting of harmonic oscillators is investigated. The Langevin equation and corresponding Fokker-Planck equation for the Brownian motion of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-14 Z. C. Tu

Classical objectivity as a property of quantum states---a view proposed to explain the observer-independent character of our world from quantum theory, is an important step in bridging the quantum-classical gap. It was recently derived in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 J. Tuziemski , J. K. Korbicz

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

We stress the relevance of the two features of translational invariance and atomic nature of the gas in the quantum description of the motion of a massive test particle in a gas, corresponding to the original picture of Einstein used in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-04 Bassano Vacchini , Francesco Petruccione

Starting from the many-particle Smoluchowski equation, we derive dynamical density functional theory for Brownian particles with an arbitrary shape. Both passive and active (self-propelled) particles are considered. The resulting theory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

We investigate the dynamics of a single deformable self-propelled particle which undergoes a spinning motion in a two-dimensional space. Equations of motion are derived from the symmetry argument for three kinds of variables. One is a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-09 Mitsusuke Tarama , Takao Ohta

The motion of a deformable active particle in linear shear flow is explored theoretically. Based on symmetry considerations, in two spatial dimensions, we propose coupled nonlinear dynamical equations for the particle position, velocity,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Mitsusuke Tarama , Andreas M. Menzel , Borge ten Hagen , Raphael Wittkowski , Takao Ohta , Hartmut Löwen

We study the diffusion of Brownian particles on the surface of a sphere and compute the distribution of solid angles enclosed by the diffusing particles. This function describes the distribution of geometric phases in two state quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. M. G. Krishna , Joseph Samuel , Supurna Sinha

Brownian motion (BM) is pivotal in natural science for the stochastic motion of microscopic droplets. In this study, we investigate BM driven by thermal composition noise at sub-micro scales, where inter-molecular diffusion and surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-26 Haodong Zhang , Fei Wang , Lorenz Ratke , Britta Nestler

I present estimates to justify previously proposed by me heuristic Dipole Dynamical Model (DDM) of Ball Lightning (BL). The movement and energy supplying to the dipole BL are due to the atmospheric electric field. Crucial for the detailed…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 V. N. Soshnikov

The Brownian dynamics of a single microorganism coupled by chemotaxis to a diffusing concentration field which is secreted by the microorganism itself is studied by computer simulations in spatial dimensions $d=1,2,3$. Both cases of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Ankush Sengupta , Sven van Teeffelen , Hartmut Löwen

Many properties of Brownian motion on spaces with varying dimension (BMVD in abbreviation) have been explored in [5]. In this paper, we study Brownian motion with drift on spaces with varying dimension (BMVD with drift in abbreviation).…

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Dynamics of complex systems is often hierarchically organized on different time scales. To understand the physics of such hierarchy, here Brownian motion of a particle moving through a fluctuating medium with slowly varying temperature is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-14 Sumiyoshi Abe

Explicit density expansions of non-equilibrium probability distribution functions for molecular Brownian particle in ideal gas are obtained in original form what visually implies (is exact solution to) the previously established dynamical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-26 Yu. E. Kuzovlev

The Brownian motion of a test particle interacting with a quantum scalar field in the presence of a perfectly reflecting boundary is studied in (1 + 1)-dimensional flat spacetime. Particularly, the expressions for dispersions in velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 V. A. De Lorenci , E. S. Moreira , M. M. Silva

We provide a rigorous derivation of the brownian motion as the limit of a deterministic system of hard-spheres as the number of particles $N$ goes to infinity and their diameter $\varepsilon$ simultaneously goes to $0$, in the fast…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-04 Thierry Bodineau , Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond

The movement of a particle described by Brownian motion is quantified by a single parameter, $D$, the diffusion constant. The estimation of $D$ from a discrete sequence of noisy observations is a fundamental problem in biological single…

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