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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 100, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.100.062116
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- Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR) [5604-2]
- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB, government of India) under the VAJRA faculty scheme [VJR/2017/000110]
- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India [SB/S2/RJN-077/2018]
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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 root x(2)+y(2) similar to v(0)t. In this regime, the distribution admits a large deviation form, P(x, y, t) similar to exp {-t D-R Phi[root x(2)+y(2)/(v(0)t)]}, where we compute the rate function Phi(z) analytically and also numerically using an importance sampling method. We show that the rate function Phi(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 -> infinity).
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