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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 29: Active Matter 5 (joint session DY/BP/CPP)

BP 29.3: Talk

Friday, September 9, 2022, 10:30–10:45, H18

Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model for self-propelled particles with inertia — •Gia Huy Philipp Nguyen, René Wittmann, and Hartmut Löwen — Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

Self-propelled particles, which convert energy into mechanical motion, exhibit inertia if they have a macroscopic size or move inside a gaseous medium, in contrast to micron-sized overdamped particles immersed in a viscous fluid. We have studied an extension of the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model, in which the self-propulsion is described by colored noise, to access these inertial effects affecting their translational motion [1]. In this talk, analytical solutions of the mean displacement, mean-squared displacement and velocity autocorrelation function will be discussed for a free active particle and in more general settings including an active dimer, a time-dependent mass and various external forces.

[1] G. H. P. Nguyen, R. Wittmann, H. Löwen, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 34, 035101 (2021)