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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL-SPECIAL TOPICS
Volume 224, Issue 7, Pages 1231-1262Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2015-02457-0
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- EPSRC [EP/J007404/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/J007404/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/J007404/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Active Brownian particles (ABPs) and Run-and-Tumble particles (RTPs) both self-propel at fixed speed v along a body-axis u that reorients either through slow angular diffusion (ABPs) or sudden complete randomisation (RTPs). We compare the physics of these two model systems both at microscopic and macroscopic scales. Using exact results for their steady-state distribution in the presence of external potentials, we show that they both admit the same effective equilibrium regime perturbatively that breaks down for stronger external potentials, in a model-dependent way. In the presence of collisional repulsions such particles slow down at high density: their propulsive effort is unchanged, but their average speed along u becomes v(rho) < v. A fruitful avenue is then to construct a mean-field description in which particles are ghost-like and have no collisions, but swim at a variable speed v that is an explicit function or functional of the density rho. We give numerical evidence that the recently shown equivalence of the fluctuating hydrodynamics of ABPs and RTPs in this case, which we detail here, extends to microscopic models of ABPs and RTPs interacting with repulsive forces.
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