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The Active Brownian Particle (ABP) model has become a prototype of self-propelled particles. ABPs move persistently at a constant speed $V$ along a direction that changes slowly by rotational diffusion, characterized by a coefficient $\Dr$.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-11 Rodrigo Soto

The transport phenomenon(directional movement) of self-propelled Brownian particles moving in a smooth corrugated confined channel is investigated. It is found that large $x$ direction noise intensity should reduce particles directional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-23 Bing Wang , Hao Chen , Yong Wu

We investigate the stochastic dynamics of one sedimenting active Brownian particle in three dimensions under the influence of gravity and passive fluctuations in the translational and rotational motion. We present an analytical solution of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-24 Jérémy Vachier , Marco G. Mazza

A laser facility based on a linear image sensor with a sampling period of 100microseconds allows to investigate the dissipative dynamics of a vibrated granular matter under gravity. The laser reveals the vertical movement of an individual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-12 Jorge E. Fiscina , Manuel O. Caceres , Frank Muecklich

Brownian motion occurs in a variety of fluids, from rare gases to liquids. The Langevin equation, describing friction and agitation forces in statistical balance, is one of the most successful ways to treat the phenomenon. In rare gases, it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-15 Frank Munley

The collective properties of a binary mixture of A- and B-type self-steering particles endowed with visual perception are studied by computer simulations. Active Brownian particles are employed with an additional steering mechanism, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-29 Rajendra Singh Negi , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

This paper presents a novel formula for the transition density of the Brownian motion on a sphere of any dimension and discusses an algorithm for the simulation of the increments of the spherical Brownian motion based on this formula. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Aleksandar Mijatović , Veno Mramor , Gerónimo Uribe Bravo

Brownian motion in confinement and at interfaces is a canonical situation, encountered from fundamental biophysics to nanoscale engineering. Using the Lorenz-Mie framework, we optically record the thermally-induced tridimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-14 Maxime Lavaud , Thomas Salez , Yann Louyer , Yacine Amarouchene

Many living systems, such as birds and fish, exhibit collective behaviors like flocking and swarming. Recently, an experimental system of active colloidal particles has been developed, where the motility of each particle is adjusted based…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-07 Zhaoxuan Liu , Marjolein Dijkstra

We develop two-dimensional Brownian dynamics simulations to examine the motion of disks under thermal fluctuations and Hookean forces. Our simulations are designed to be experimental-like, since the experimental conditions define the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-26 Manuel Pancorbo , Miguel A. Rubio , P. Domínguez-García

Brownian motion is modelled by a harmonic oscillator (Brownian particle) interacting with a continuous set of uncoupled harmonic oscillators. The interaction is linear in the coordinates and the momenta. The model has an analytical solution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 Diego G. Arbo , Mario A. Castagnino , Fabian H. Gaioli , Sergio Iguri

We consider the collective motion of finite-sized, overdamped Brownian particles (e.g., motor proteins) in a periodic potential. Simulations of our model have revealed a number of novel cooperative transport phenomena, including (i) the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Imre Derenyi , Tamas Vicsek

We study the long time behavior of a Brownian particle moving in an anomalously diffusing field, the evolution of which depends on the particle position. We prove that the process describing the asymptotic behaviour of the Brownian particle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-06 Michela Ottobre

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

The Brownian web is a collection of one-dimensional coalescing Brownian motions starting from everywhere in space and time, and the Brownian net is a generalization that also allows branching. They appear in the diffusive scaling limits of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Emmanuel Schertzer , Rongfeng Sun , Jan M. Swart

In two prior papers of this series, it was proposed that a wavefunction model of a heavy particle and a collection of light particles might generate ``Brownian-Motion-Like" trajectories as well as diffusive motion (displacement proportional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Leonardo De Carlo , W. David Wick

We compare experimental data and numerical simulations for the dynamics of inertial particles with finite density in turbulence. In the experiment, bubbles and solid particles are optically tracked in a turbulent flow of water using an…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-08-28 R. Volk , E. Calzavarini , G. Verhille , D. Lohse , N. Mordant , J. -F. Pinton , F. Toschi

We study the statistical properties of the variation of the kinetic energy of a spherical Brownian particle that freely moves in an incompressible fluid at constant temperature. Based on the underdamped version of the generalized Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-10 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano

We demonstrate experimentally that a Brownian particle is subject to inertial effects at long time scales. By using a blinking optical tweezers, we extend the range of previous experiments by several orders of magnitude up to a few seconds.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Giuseppe Pesce , Giorgio Volpe , Giovanni Volpe , Antonio Sasso

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