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Zhao XB, Zhang X, Guo W. Diffusion of active Brownian particles under quenched disorder. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0298466. [PMID: 38437208 PMCID: PMC10911629 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024] Open
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The motion of a single active particle in one dimension with quenched disorder under the external force is investigated. Within the tailored parameter range, anomalous diffusion that displays weak ergodicity breaking is observed, i.e., non-ergodic subdiffusion and non-ergodic superdiffusion. This non-ergodic anomalous diffusion is analyzed through the time-dependent probability distributions of the particle's velocities and positions. Its origin is attributed to the relative weights of the locked state (predominant in the subdiffusion state) and running state (predominant in the superdiffusion state). These results may contribute to understanding the dynamical behavior of self-propelled particles in nature and the extraordinary response of nonlinear dynamics to the externally biased force.
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- Xiong-Biao Zhao
- Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructures in Yunnan Higher Education Institutions, School of Physical Science and Technology, Kunming University, Kunming, China
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- Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructures in Yunnan Higher Education Institutions, School of Physical Science and Technology, Kunming University, Kunming, China
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- Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructures in Yunnan Higher Education Institutions, School of Physical Science and Technology, Kunming University, Kunming, China
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Cherayil BJ. Survival probabilities and first-passage distributions of self-propelled particles in spherical cavities. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:054607. [PMID: 38115486 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.054607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/05/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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A model of self-propelled motion in a closed compartment containing simple or complex fluids is formulated in this paper in terms of the dynamics of a point particle moving in a spherical cavity under the action of random thermal forces and exponentially correlated noise. The particle's time evolution is governed by a generalized Langevin equation (GLE) in which the memory function, connected to the thermal forces by a fluctuation-dissipation relation, is described by Jeffrey's model of viscoelasticity (which reduces to a model of ordinary viscous dynamics in a suitable limit). The GLE is transformed exactly to a Fokker-Planck equation that in spherical polar coordinates is in turn found to admit of an exact solution for the particle's probability density function under absorbing boundary conditions at the surface of the sphere. The solution is used to derive an expression (that is also exact) for the survival probability of the particle in the sphere, starting from its center, which is then used to calculate the distribution of the particle's first-passage times to the boundary. The behavior of these quantities is investigated as a function of the Péclet number and the persistence time of the athermal forces, providing insight into the effects of nonequilibrium fluctuations on confined particle motion in three dimensions.
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- Binny J Cherayil
- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
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Bickmann J, Bröker S, Te Vrugt M, Wittkowski R. Active Brownian particles in external force fields: Field-theoretical models, generalized barometric law, and programmable density patterns. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:044601. [PMID: 37978644 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.044601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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We investigate the influence of external forces on the collective dynamics of interacting active Brownian particles in two as well as three spatial dimensions. Via explicit coarse graining, we derive predictive models, i.e., models that give a direct relation between the models' coefficients and the bare parameters of the system, that are applicable for space- and time-dependent external force fields. We study these models for the cases of gravity and harmonic traps. In particular, we derive a generalized barometric formula for interacting active Brownian particles under gravity that is valid for low to high concentrations and activities of the particles. Furthermore, we show that one can use an external harmonic trap to induce motility-induced phase separation in systems that, without external fields, remain in a homogeneous state. This finding makes it possible to realize programmable density patterns in systems of active Brownian particles. Our analytic predictions are found to be in very good agreement with Brownian dynamics simulations.
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- Jens Bickmann
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Center for Soft Nanoscience, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Center for Soft Nanoscience, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Center for Soft Nanoscience, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Center for Soft Nanoscience, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
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Caprini L, Löwen H, Marini Bettolo Marconi U. Chiral active matter in external potentials. SOFT MATTER 2023; 19:6234-6246. [PMID: 37555622 DOI: 10.1039/d3sm00793f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/10/2023]
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We investigate the interplay between chirality and confinement induced by the presence of an external potential. For potentials having radial symmetry, the circular character of the trajectories induced by the chiral motion reduces the spatial fluctuations of the particle, thus providing an extra effective confining mechanism, that can be interpreted as a lowering of the effective temperature. In the case of non-radial potentials, for instance, with an elliptic shape, chirality displays a richer scenario. Indeed, the chirality can break the parity symmetry of the potential that is always fulfilled in the non-chiral system. The probability distribution displays a strong non-Maxwell-Boltzmann shape that emerges in cross-correlations between the two Cartesian components of the position, that vanishes in the absence of chirality or when radial symmetry of the potential is restored. These results are obtained by considering two popular models in active matter, i.e. chiral Active Brownian particles and chiral active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles.
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- Lorenzo Caprini
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Theoretische Physik II - Weiche Materie, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Theoretische Physik II - Weiche Materie, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- Scuola di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università di Camerino - via Madonna delle Carceri, 62032, Camerino, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy.
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Sprenger AR, Caprini L, Löwen H, Wittmann R. Dynamics of active particles with translational and rotational inertia. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2023; 35:305101. [PMID: 37059111 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/accd36] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2023] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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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 correctly reproduce experimental results, hopefully achieving theoretical insights. For this purpose, we propose an inertial version of the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP) model accounting for particle mass (translational inertia) as well as its moment of inertia (rotational inertia) and derive the full expression for its steady-state properties. The inertial AOUP dynamics introduced in this paper is designed to capture the basic features of the well-established inertial active Brownian particle model, i.e. the persistence time of the active motion and the long-time diffusion coefficient. For a small or moderate rotational inertia, these two models predict similar dynamics at all timescales and, in general, our inertial AOUP model consistently yields the same trend upon changing the moment of inertia for various dynamical correlation functions.
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- Alexander R Sprenger
- Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institut für Physik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Almodóvar A, Galla T, López C. Liquid-hexatic-solid phases in active and passive Brownian particles determined by stochastic birth and death events. Phys Rev E 2022; 106:054130. [PMID: 36559396 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.054130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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We study the effects of stochastic birth and death processes on the structural phases of systems of active and passive Brownian particles subject to volume exclusion. The total number of particles in the system is a fluctuating quantity, determined by the birth and death parameters and on the activity of the particles. As the birth and death parameters are varied, we find liquid, hexatic, and solid phases. For passive particles, these phases are found to be spatially homogeneous. For active particles, motility-induced phase separation (coexisting hexatic and liquid phases) occurs for large activity and sufficiently small birth rates. We also observe a reentrant transition to the hexatic phase when the birth rate is increased. This results from a balance of an increasing number of particles filling the system, and a larger number of defects resulting from the birth and death dynamics.
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- Alejandro Almodóvar
- IFISC, Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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- IFISC, Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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- IFISC, Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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De Karmakar S, Ganesh R. Reentrant phase separation of a sparse collection of nonreciprocally aligning self-propelled disks. Phys Rev E 2022; 106:044607. [PMID: 36397508 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.044607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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We study a model of aligning self-propelled disks that nonreciprocally reorient the self-propulsion directions along the interparticle separation and towards the other disks. In the limit of small inertia and large softness, where conventional motility-induced phase separation is absent, we demonstrate that the homogeneous system at a small area fraction phase-separates into clusters and a low-density phase that, eventually, reenters the homogeneous phase with a monotonic increase in alignment strength. The disks inside the clusters move with a finite space-dependent speed, constantly shuttling between clusters through the surrounding low-density homogeneous phase while maintaining the hexatic structure properties within the clusters. The area fraction gradually increases from the periphery towards the center of the clusters with a negligible correlation of the velocity and propulsion direction inside the clusters. The novel collective behavior of reentrant phase separation is found to follow from both the limits of hard disks and extremely small inertia, tending towards the overdamped limit. However, important differences in the structural and dynamical properties are shown in the limit of hard disks and extremely small inertia, as compared to that for soft disks at finite inertia. We show that the cluster phase is associated with an effective temperature for a wide range of values of alignment strength, whereas an effective temperature is associated with the specific range of alignment in the low-density phase. We believe that the reentrant phase behavior in the limit of small area fraction and the remarkable properties of the clusters should be useful in understanding a wide range of physics issues, ranging from clogging and unclogging to information exchange and transport, in biological and synthetic self-propelled systems.
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- Soumen De Karmakar
- Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382428, Gujarat, India and Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400094, India
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- Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382428, Gujarat, India and Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400094, India
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Chacón E, Alarcón F, Ramírez J, Tarazona P, Valeriani C. Intrinsic structure perspective for MIPS interfaces in two-dimensional systems of active Brownian particles. SOFT MATTER 2022; 18:2646-2653. [PMID: 35302119 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm01493e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Suspensions of active Brownian particles (ABPs) undergo motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) over a wide range of mean density and activity strength, which implies the spontaneous aggregation of particles due to the persistence of their direction of motion, even in the absence of an explicit attraction. Both similarities and qualitative differences have been obtained when the MIPS is analysed in the same terms as a liquid-gas phase coexistence in an equilibrium attractive system. Negative values of the mechanical surface tension have been reported, from the total forces across the interface, while stable fluctuations of the interfacial line could be interpreted as a positive capillary surface tension; in equilibrium liquid surfaces, these two magnitudes are equal. We present here the analysis of 2D-ABP interfaces in terms of the intrinsic density and force profiles, calculated with the particle distance to the instantaneous interfacial line. Our results provide new insight into the origin of MIPS from the local rectification of the random active force on the particles near the interface. As has been reported, this effect acts as an external potential that produces a pressure gradient across the interface, such that the mechanical surface tension of the MIPS cannot be described as that of equilibrium coexisting phases; however, our analysis shows that most of that effect comes from the tightly caged particles at the dense (inner) side of the MIPS interface, rather than from the free moving particles at the outer side that collide with the dense cluster. Moreover, a clear correlation appears between the decay of the hexatic order parameter at the dense slab and the end of the MIPS as the strength of the active force is lowered. We show that, using the strong active forces required for MIPS, the interfacial structure and properties are very similar for ABPs with purely repulsive interactions (the Weeks-Chandler-Andersen-Lennard-Jones (WCA-LJ) model truncated at its minimum) and when the interaction includes a range of the LJ attractive force.
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- Enrique Chacón
- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Madrid 28049, Spain
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- Departamento de Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain
- Departamento de Ingeniería Física, División de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad de Guanajuato, Loma del Bosque 103, León 37150, Mexico
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Química, ETSI Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid 28006, Spain
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- Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, Spain
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- Departamento de Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain.
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Caprini L, Sprenger AR, Löwen H, Wittmann R. The parental active model: A unifying stochastic description of self-propulsion. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:071102. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0084213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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- Lorenzo Caprini
- Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Caprini L, Marini Bettolo Marconi U, Wittmann R, Löwen H. Dynamics of active particles with space-dependent swim velocity. SOFT MATTER 2022; 18:1412-1422. [PMID: 35080576 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm01648b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We study the dynamical properties of an active particle subject to a swimming speed explicitly depending on the particle position. The oscillating spatial profile of the swim velocity considered in this paper takes inspiration from experimental studies based on Janus particles whose speed can be modulated by an external source of light. We suggest and apply an appropriate model of an active Ornstein Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP) to the present case. This allows us to predict the stationary properties, by finding the exact solution of the steady-state probability distribution of particle position and velocity. From this, we obtain the spatial density profile and show that its form is consistent with the one found in the framework of other popular models. The reduced velocity distribution highlights the emergence of non-Gaussianity in our generalized AOUP model which becomes more evident as the spatial dependence of the velocity profile becomes more pronounced. Then, we focus on the time-dependent properties of the system. Velocity autocorrelation functions are studied in the steady-state combining numerical and analytical methods derived under suitable approximations. We observe a non-monotonic decay in the temporal shape of the velocity autocorrelation function which depends on the ratio between the persistence length and the spatial period of the swim velocity. In addition, we numerically and analytically study the mean square displacement and the long-time diffusion coefficient. The ballistic regime, observed in the small-time region, is deeply affected by the properties of the swim velocity landscape which induces also a crossover to a sub-ballistic but superdiffusive regime for intermediate times. Finally, the long-time diffusion coefficient decreases as the amplitude of the swim velocity oscillations increases because the diffusion is mainly determined by those regions where the particles are slow.
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- Lorenzo Caprini
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Theoretische Physik II - Soft Matter, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Theoretische Physik II - Soft Matter, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Theoretische Physik II - Soft Matter, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Caprini L, Cecconi F, Marini Bettolo Marconi U. Correlated escape of active particles across a potential barrier. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:234902. [PMID: 34937362 DOI: 10.1063/5.0074072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We study the dynamics of one-dimensional active particles confined in a double-well potential, focusing on the escape properties of the system, such as the mean escape time from a well. We first consider a single-particle both in near and far-from-equilibrium regimes by varying the persistence time of the active force and the swim velocity. A non-monotonic behavior of the mean escape time is observed with the persistence time of the activity, revealing the existence of an optimal choice of the parameters favoring the escape process. For small persistence times, a Kramers-like formula with an effective potential obtained within the unified colored noise approximation is shown to hold. Instead, for large persistence times, we developed a simple theoretical argument based on the first passage theory, which explains the linear dependence of the escape time with the persistence of the active force. In the second part of the work, we consider the escape on two active particles mutually repelling. Interestingly, the subtle interplay of active and repulsive forces may lead to a correlation between particles, favoring the simultaneous jump across the barrier. This mechanism cannot be observed in the escape process of two passive particles. Finally, we find that in the small persistence regime, the repulsion favors the escape, such as in passive systems, in agreement with our theoretical predictions, while for large persistence times, the repulsive and active forces produce an effective attraction, which hinders the barrier crossing.
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- Lorenzo Caprini
- Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Universitätsstrasse 1, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Scuola di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università di Camerino, Via Madonna delle Carceri, I-62032 Camerino, Italy
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Scacchi A, Sammalkorpi M, Ala-Nissila T. Self-assembly of binary solutions to complex structures. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:014904. [PMID: 34241377 DOI: 10.1063/5.0053365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Self-assembly in natural and synthetic molecular systems can create complex aggregates or materials whose properties and functionalities rise from their internal structure and molecular arrangement. The key microscopic features that control such assemblies remain poorly understood, nevertheless. Using classical density functional theory, we demonstrate how the intrinsic length scales and their interplay in terms of interspecies molecular interactions can be used to tune soft matter self-assembly. We apply our strategy to two different soft binary mixtures to create guidelines for tuning intermolecular interactions that lead to transitions from a fully miscible, liquid-like uniform state to formation of simple and core-shell aggregates and mixed aggregate structures. Furthermore, we demonstrate how the interspecies interactions and system composition can be used to control concentration gradients of component species within these assemblies. The insight generated by this work contributes toward understanding and controlling soft multi-component self-assembly systems. Additionally, our results aid in understanding complex biological assemblies and their function and provide tools to engineer molecular interactions in order to control polymeric and protein-based materials, pharmaceutical formulations, and nanoparticle assemblies.
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- Alberto Scacchi
- Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Aalto University, P.O. Box 16100, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Aalto University, P.O. Box 16100, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
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- Quantum Technology Finland Center of Excellence and Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
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Caprini L, Maggi C, Marini Bettolo Marconi U. Collective effects in confined active Brownian particles. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:244901. [PMID: 34241356 DOI: 10.1063/5.0051315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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We investigate a two-dimensional system of active particles confined to a narrow annular domain. Despite the absence of explicit interactions among the velocities or the active forces of different particles, the system displays a transition from a disordered and stuck state to an ordered state of global collective motion where the particles rotate persistently clockwise or anticlockwise. We describe this behavior by introducing a suitable order parameter, the velocity polarization, measuring the global alignment of the particles' velocities along the tangential direction of the ring. We also measure the spatial velocity correlation function and its correlation length to characterize the two states. In the rotating phase, the velocity correlation displays an algebraic decay that is analytically predicted together with its correlation length, while in the stuck regime, the velocity correlation decays exponentially with a correlation length that increases with the persistence time. In the first case, the correlation (and, in particular, its correlation length) does not depend on the active force but the system size only. The global collective motion, an effect caused by the interplay between finite-size, periodicity, and persistent active forces, disappears as the size of the ring becomes infinite, suggesting that this phenomenon does not correspond to a phase transition in the usual thermodynamic sense.
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- Lorenzo Caprini
- Scuola di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università di Camerino, Via Madonna delle Carceri, I-62032 Camerino, Italy
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- NANOTEC-CNR, Institute of Nanotechnology, Soft and Living Matter Laboratory, Roma, Italy
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Unraveling hidden interactions in complex systems with deep learning. Sci Rep 2021; 11:12804. [PMID: 34140551 PMCID: PMC8211832 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-91878-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 05/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Rich phenomena from complex systems have long intrigued researchers, and yet modeling system micro-dynamics and inferring the forms of interaction remain challenging for conventional data-driven approaches, being generally established by scientists with human ingenuity. In this study, we propose AgentNet, a model-free data-driven framework consisting of deep neural networks to reveal and analyze the hidden interactions in complex systems from observed data alone. AgentNet utilizes a graph attention network with novel variable-wise attention to model the interaction between individual agents, and employs various encoders and decoders that can be selectively applied to any desired system. Our model successfully captured a wide variety of simulated complex systems, namely cellular automata (discrete), the Vicsek model (continuous), and active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles (non-Markovian) in which, notably, AgentNet's visualized attention values coincided with the true variable-wise interaction strengths and exhibited collective behavior that was absent in the training data. A demonstration with empirical data from a flock of birds showed that AgentNet could identify hidden interaction ranges exhibited by real birds, which cannot be detected by conventional velocity correlation analysis. We expect our framework to open a novel path to investigating complex systems and to provide insight into general process-driven modeling.
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Belan S, Kardar M. Active motion of passive asymmetric dumbbells in a non-equilibrium bath. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:024109. [PMID: 33445886 DOI: 10.1063/5.0030623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Persistent motion of passive asymmetric bodies in non-equilibrium media has been experimentally observed in a variety of settings. However, fundamental constraints on the efficiency of such motion are not fully explored. Understanding such limits, and ways to circumvent them, is important for efficient utilization of energy stored in agitated surroundings for purposes of taxis and transport. Here, we examine such issues in the context of erratic movements of a passive asymmetric dumbbell driven by non-equilibrium noise. For uncorrelated (white) noise, we find a (non-Boltzmann) joint probability distribution for the velocity and orientation, which indicates that the dumbbell preferentially moves along its symmetry axis. The dumbbell thus behaves as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck walker, a prototype of active matter. Exploring the efficiency of this active motion, we show that in the over-damped limit, the persistence length l of the dumbbell is bound from above by half its mean size, while the propulsion speed v∥ is proportional to its inverse size. The persistence length can be increased by exploiting inertial effects beyond the over-damped regime, but this improvement always comes at the price of smaller propulsion speeds. This limitation is explained by noting that the diffusivity of a dumbbell, related to the product v∥l, is always less than that of its components, thus severely constraining the usefulness of passive dumbbells as active particles.
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- Sergey Belan
- Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1-A Akademika Semenova av., 142432 Chernogolovka, Russia
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Caprini L, Marini Bettolo Marconi U. Inertial self-propelled particles. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:024902. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0030940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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- Lorenzo Caprini
- Scuola di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università di Camerino, Via Madonna delle Carceri, I-62032 Camerino, Italy
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We investigate the non-equilibrium character of self-propelled particles through the study of the linear response of the active Ornstein–Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP) model. We express the linear response in terms of correlations computed in the absence of perturbations, proposing a particularly compact and readable fluctuation–dissipation relation (FDR): such an expression explicitly separates equilibrium and non-equilibrium contributions due to self-propulsion. As a case study, we consider non-interacting AOUP confined in single-well and double-well potentials. In the former case, we also unveil the effect of dimensionality, studying one-, two-, and three-dimensional dynamics. We show that information about the distance from equilibrium can be deduced from the FDR, putting in evidence the roles of position and velocity variables in the non-equilibrium relaxation.
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Caprini L, Marini Bettolo Marconi U. Active matter at high density: Velocity distribution and kinetic temperature. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:184901. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0029710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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- Lorenzo Caprini
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Camerino, Via Madonna delle Carceri, I-62032 Camerino, Italy
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Dolai P, Das A, Kundu A, Dasgupta C, Dhar A, Kumar KV. Universal scaling in active single-file dynamics. SOFT MATTER 2020; 16:7077-7087. [PMID: 32657314 DOI: 10.1039/d0sm00687d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We study the single-file dynamics of three classes of active particles: run-and-tumble particles, active Brownian particles and active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles. At high activity values, the particles, interacting via purely repulsive and short-ranged forces, aggregate into several motile and dynamical clusters of comparable size, and do not display bulk phase-segregation. In this dynamical steady-state, we find that the cluster size distribution of these aggregates is a scaled function of the density and activity parameters across the three models of active particles with the same scaling function. The velocity distribution of these motile clusters is non-Gaussian. We show that the effective dynamics of these clusters can explain the observed emergent scaling of the mean-squared displacement of tagged particles for all the three models with identical scaling exponents and functions. Concomitant with the clustering seen at high activities, we observe that the static density correlation function displays rich structures, including multiple peaks that are reminiscent of particle clustering induced by effective attractive interactions, while the dynamical variant shows non-diffusive scaling. Our study reveals a universal scaling behavior in the single-file dynamics of interacting active particles.
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- Pritha Dolai
- International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hesaraghatta Hobli, Bengaluru North, Bangalore, Karnataka, India560089.
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Natali L, Caprini L, Cecconi F. How a local active force modifies the structural properties of polymers. SOFT MATTER 2020; 16:2594-2604. [PMID: 32091062 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm02258a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We study the dynamics of a polymer, described as a variant of a Rouse chain, driven by an active terminal monomer (head). The local active force induces a transition from a globule-like to an elongated state, as revealed by the study of the end-to-end distance, the variance of which is analytically predicted under suitable approximations. The change in the relaxation times of the Rouse-modes produced by the local self-propulsion is consistent with the transition from globule to elongated conformations. Moreover, also the bond-bond spatial correlation for the chain head are affected by the self-propulsion and a gradient of over-stretched bonds along the chain is observed. We compare our numerical results both with the phenomenological stiff-polymer theory and several analytical predictions in the Rouse-chain approximation.
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- Laura Natali
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università"Sapienza", Piazzale A. Moro 5, I00185 Rome, Italy
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Basu U, Majumdar SN, Rosso A, Schehr G. Long-time position distribution of an active Brownian particle in two dimensions. Phys Rev E 2019; 100:062116. [PMID: 31962395 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.100.062116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We study the late-time dynamics of a single active Brownian particle in two dimensions with speed v_{0} and rotation diffusion constant D_{R}. We show that at late times t≫D_{R}^{-1}, while the position probability distribution P(x,y,t) in the x-y plane approaches a Gaussian form near its peak describing the typical diffusive fluctuations, it has non-Gaussian tails describing atypical rare fluctuations when sqrt[x^{2}+y^{2}]∼v_{0}t. In this regime, the distribution admits a large deviation form, P(x,y,t)∼exp{-tD_{R}Φ[sqrt[x^{2}+y^{2}]/(v_{0}t)]}, where we compute the rate function Φ(z) analytically and also numerically using an importance sampling method. We show that the rate function Φ(z), encoding the rare fluctuations, still carries the trace of activity even at late times. Another way of detecting activity at late times is to subject the active particle to an external harmonic potential. In this case we show that the stationary distribution P_{stat}(x,y) depends explicitly on the activity parameter D_{R}^{-1} and undergoes a crossover, as D_{R} increases, from a ring shape in the strongly active limit (D_{R}→0) to a Gaussian shape in the strongly passive limit (D_{R}→∞).
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- Urna Basu
- Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru 560080, India
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- LPTMS, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- LPTMS, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- LPTMS, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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