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Stephy Jose

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arXiv2025

Jerky chiral active particles

We introduce jerky chiral active Brownian particles (jcABPs), a generalization of conventional chiral active Brownian particles (cABPs) subjected to jerk, the time derivative of acceleration, and analytically derive their mean displacement and mean squared displacement (MSD). Our results show that jerk induces anomalous fluctuations and oscillatory behavior on the standard circular swimming of chiral active particles. The interplay of jerk, chirality and persistence produces a family of mean trajectories including damped and exploding Lissajous patterns alongside the well-known spira mirabilis (logarithmic spirals). Our work on jerky chiral active particles opens a new route to explore rich dynamical effects in active matter.

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arXiv2025

Diffusive noise controls early stages of genetic demixing

Theoretical descriptions of the stepping-stone model, a cornerstone of spatial population genetics, have long overlooked diffusive noise arising from migration dynamics. We derive an exact fluctuating hydrodynamic description of this model from microscopic rules, which we then use to demonstrate that diffusive noise significantly alters early-time genetic demixing, which we characterize through heterozygosity, a key measure of diversity. Combining macroscopic fluctuation theory and microscopic simulations, we demonstrate that the scaling of density fluctuations in a spatial domain displays an early-time behaviour dominated by diffusive noise. Our exact results underscore the need for additional terms in existing continuum theories and highlight the necessity of including diffusive noise in models of spatially structured populations.

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arXiv2024

Current fluctuations in finite-sized one-dimensional non-interacting passive and active systems

We investigate the problem of effusion of particles initially confined in a finite one-dimensional box of size $L$. We study both passive as well active scenarios, involving non-interacting diffusive particles and run-and-tumble particles, respectively. We derive analytic results for the fluctuations in the number of particles exiting the boundaries of the finite confining box. The statistical properties of this quantity crucially depend on how the system is prepared initially. Two common types of averages employed to understand the impact of initial conditions in stochastic systems are annealed and quenched averages. It is well known that for an infinitely extended system, these different initial conditions produce quantitatively different fluctuations, even in the infinite time limit. We demonstrate explicitly that in finite systems, annealed and quenched fluctuations become equal beyond a system-size dependent timescale, $t \sim L^2$. For diffusing particles, the fluctuations exhibit a $\sqrt{t}$ growth at short times and decay as $1/\sqrt{t}$ for time scales, $t \gg L^2/D$, where $D$ is the diffusion constant. Meanwhile, for run-and-tumble particles, the fluctuations grow linearly at short times and then decay as $1/\sqrt{t}$ for time scales, $t \gg L^2/D_{\text{eff}}$, where $D_{\text{eff}}$ represents the effective diffusive constant for run-and-tumble particles. To study the effect of confinement in detail, we also analyze two different setups (i) with one reflecting boundary and (ii) with both boundaries open.

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arXiv2023

Effect of initial conditions on current fluctuations in non-interacting active particles

We investigate the effect of initial conditions on the fluctuations of the integrated density current across the origin ($x=0$) up to a given time $t$ in a one-dimensional system of non-interacting run-and-tumble particles. Each particle has initial probabilities $f^+$ and $f^-$ to move with an initial velocity $+v$ and $-v$ respectively, where $v>0$. We derive exact results for the variance (second cumulant) of the current for quenched and annealed averages over the initial conditions for the magnetization and the density fields associated with the particles. We show that at large times, the variance displays a $\sqrt{t}$ behavior, with a prefactor contingent on the specific density initial conditions used. However, at short times, the variance displays either linear $t$ or quadratic $t^2$ behavior, which depends on the combination of magnetization and density initial conditions, along with the fraction $f^+$ of particles in the positive velocity state at $t=0$. Intriguingly, if $f^+=0$, the variance displays a short time $t^2$ behavior with the same prefactor irrespective of the initial conditions for both fields.

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arXiv2023

Generalized disorder averages and current fluctuations in run and tumble particles

We present exact results for the fluctuations in the number of particles crossing the origin up to time $t$ in a collection of non-interacting run and tumble particles in one dimension. In contrast to passive systems, such active particles are endowed with two inherent degrees of freedom: positions and velocities, which can be used to construct density and magnetization fields. We introduce generalized disorder averages associated with both these fields and perform annealed and quenched averages over various initial conditions. We show that the variance $\sigma^2$ of the current in annealed versus quenched magnetization situations exhibits a surprising difference at short times: $\sigma^2 \sim t$ versus $\sigma^2 \sim t^2$ respectively, with a $\sqrt{t}$ behavior emerging at large times. Our analytical results demonstrate that in the strictly quenched scenario, where both the density and magnetization fields are initially frozen, the fluctuations in the current are strongly suppressed. Importantly, these anomalous fluctuations cannot be obtained solely by freezing the density field.

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arXiv2023

Current fluctuations in an interacting active lattice gas

We study the fluctuations of the integrated density current across the origin up to time $T$ in a lattice model of active particles with hard-core interactions. This model is amenable to an exact description within a fluctuating hydrodynamics framework. We focus on quenched initial conditions for both the density and magnetization fields and derive expressions for the cumulants of the density current, which can be matched with direct numerical simulations of the microscopic lattice model. For the case of uniform initial profiles, we show that the second cumulant of the integrated current displays three regimes: an initial $\sqrt{T}$ rise with a coefficient given by the symmetric simple exclusion process, a cross-over regime where the effects of activity increase the fluctuations, and a large time $\sqrt{T}$ behavior with a prefactor which depends on the initial conditions, the P\'eclet number and the mean density of particles. Additionally, we study the limit of zero diffusion where the fluctuations intriguingly exhibit a $T^2$ behavior at short times. However, at large times, the fluctuations still grow as $\sqrt{T}$, with a coefficient that can be calculated explicitly. For low densities, we show that this coefficient can be expressed in terms of the effective diffusion constant $D_{\text{eff}}$ for non-interacting active particles.

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arXiv2022

First passage statistics of active random walks on one and two dimensional lattices

We investigate the first passage statistics of active continuous time random walks with Poissonian waiting time distribution on a one dimensional infinite lattice and a two dimensional infinite square lattice. We study the small and large time properties of the probability of the first return to the origin as well as the probability of the first passage to an arbitrary lattice site. It is well known that the occupation probabilities of an active particle resemble that of an ordinary Brownian motion with an effective diffusion constant at large times. Interestingly, we demonstrate that even at the leading order, the first passage probabilities are not given by a simple effective diffusion constant. We demonstrate that at late times, activity enhances the probability of the first return to the origin and the probabilities of the first passage to lattice sites close enough to the origin, which we quantify in terms of the P\'eclet number. Additionally, we derive the first passage probabilities of a symmetric random walker and a biased random walker without activity as limiting cases. We verify our analytic results by performing kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of an active random walker in one and two dimensions.

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arXiv2022

Active Random Walks in One and Two Dimensions

We investigate active lattice walks: biased continuous time random walks which perform orientational diffusion between lattice directions in one and two spatial dimensions. We study the occupation probability of an arbitrary site on the lattice in one and two dimensions, and derive exact results in the continuum limit. Next, we compute the large deviation free energy function in both one and two dimensions, which we use to compute the moments and the cumulants of the displacements exactly at late times. Our exact results demonstrate that the cross-correlations between the motion in the $x$ and $y$ directions in two dimensions persist in the large deviation function. We also demonstrate that the large deviation function of an active particle with diffusion displays two regimes, with differing diffusive behaviors. We verify our analytic results with kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of an active lattice walker in one and two dimensions.

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arXiv2021

First passage statistics of Poisson random walks on lattices

The first passage statistics of a continuous time random walker with Poisson distributed jumps on one and two dimensional infinite lattices is investigated. An exact expression for the probability of first return to the origin in one dimension is derived for a symmetric random walker as well as a biased random walker. The Laplace transform of the occupation probability of a site for a symmetric random walker on a two dimensional lattice is identified with the lattice Green's function for a square lattice. This allows computation of the exact first passage distribution to any arbitrary site on the square lattice in Laplace space. All analytical results are compared with kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of a lattice walker in one and two dimensions.

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