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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 91, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.052150
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- DGAPA-UNAM [PAPIIT-IN113114]
- CONACyT
- Programa de Mejoramiento de Profesorado (PROMEP)
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We study the free diffusion in two dimensions of active Brownian swimmers subject to passive fluctuations on the translational motion and to active fluctuations on the rotational one. The Smoluchowski equation is derived from a Langevin-like model of active swimmers and analytically solved in the long-time regime for arbitrary values of the Peclet number; this allows us to analyze the out-of-equilibrium evolution of the positions distribution of active particles at all time regimes. Explicit expressions for the mean-square displacement and for the kurtosis of the probability distribution function are presented and the effects of persistence discussed. We show through Brownian dynamics simulations that our prescription for the mean-square displacement gives the exact time dependence at all times. The departure of the probability distribution from a Gaussian, measured by the kurtosis, is also analyzed both analytically and computationally. We find that for the inverse of Peclet numbers less than or similar to 0.1, the distance from Gaussian increases as similar to t(-2) at short times, while it diminishes as similar to t(-1) in the asymptotic limit.
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