Enhanced diffusion of tracer particles in nonreciprocal mixtures

A Benois, M Jardat, V Dahirel, V Démery… - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We study the diffusivity of a tagged particle in a binary mixture of Brownian particles with
nonreciprocal interactions. Numerical simulations reveal that, for a broad class of interaction …

Activity-induced stiffness, entanglement network and dynamic slowdown in unentangled semidilute polymer solutions

J Li, B Zhang, ZY Wang - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Active polymers possess numerous unique properties that are quite different from those
observed in the system of small active molecules due to the intricate interplay between their …

Trapped tracer in a non-equilibrium bath: dynamics and energetics

K Goswami, R Metzler - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We study the dynamics of a tracer that is elastically coupled to active particles being kept at
two different temperatures, as a prototype of tracer dynamics in a non-equilibrium bath …

Diffusion of a tracer in a dense mixture of soft particles connected to different thermostats

M Jardat, V Dahirel, P Illien - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We study the dynamics of a tracer in a dense mixture of particles connected to different
thermostats. Starting from the overdamped Langevin equations that describe the evolution of …

Dynamical fluctuations of a tracer coupled to active and passive particles

I Santra - Journal of Physics: Complexity, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the induced dynamics of an inertial tracer particle elastically coupled to passive or
active Brownian particles. We integrate out the environment degrees of freedom to obtain …

Short-time transport properties of bidisperse suspensions of immunoglobulins and serum albumins consistent with a colloid physics picture

C Beck, M Grimaldo, H Lopez, S Da Vela… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The crowded environment of biological systems such as the interior of living cells is
occupied by macromolecules with a broad size distribution. This situation of polydispersity …

Spontaneous propulsion of an isotropic colloid in a phase-separating environment

J Decayeux, V Dahirel, M Jardat, P Illien - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
The motion of active colloids is generally achieved through their anisotropy, as exemplified
by Janus colloids. Recently, there was a growing interest in the propulsion of isotropic …

Emergence of directed motion in a crowded suspension of overdamped particles with different effective temperatures

D Schwarcz, S Burov - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
In this work, we focus on the behavior of a single passive Brownian particle in a suspension
of passive particles with short-range repulsive interactions and higher effective temperature …

Tethered tracer in a mixture of hot and cold Brownian particles: can activity pacify fluctuations?

M Wang, K Zinga, A Zidovska, AY Grosberg - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We study how an interacting mixture of components with differing levels of activity can affect
the fluctuations of an embedded object such as a tracer. In particular, we consider a simple …

Forces from coarse-graining non-equilibrium degrees of freedom: exact results

I Santra, M Krüger - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the relaxation dynamics of a tracer in a harmonic trap coupled to a non-
equilibrium bath particle in a stationary state, finding qualitative differences from the well …