From Attraction to Repulsion: Emergent Interactions in Harmonically Coupled Active Binary System
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| author | Sarkar, Ritwick Chatterjee, Sreya Basu, Urna |
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| contents | We investigate the emergent interactions between two active Brownian particles coupled by an attractive harmonic potential and in contact with a thermal reservoir. By analyzing the stationary distribution of their separation, we demonstrate that the effective interaction can be either attractive or repulsive, depending on the interplay between activity, coupling strength, and temperature. Notably, we find that an effective short-range repulsion emerges in the strong and moderate-coupling regimes, when the temperature is below some threshold value, which we characterize analytically. In the strong-coupling regime, the repulsion emerges solely due to the difference in the self-propulsion speeds of the particles. We also compute the short-time position distribution of the centroid of the coupled particles, which shows strongly non-Gaussian fluctuations at low temperatures. |
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| spellingShingle | From Attraction to Repulsion: Emergent Interactions in Harmonically Coupled Active Binary System Sarkar, Ritwick Chatterjee, Sreya Basu, Urna Statistical Mechanics Soft Condensed Matter We investigate the emergent interactions between two active Brownian particles coupled by an attractive harmonic potential and in contact with a thermal reservoir. By analyzing the stationary distribution of their separation, we demonstrate that the effective interaction can be either attractive or repulsive, depending on the interplay between activity, coupling strength, and temperature. Notably, we find that an effective short-range repulsion emerges in the strong and moderate-coupling regimes, when the temperature is below some threshold value, which we characterize analytically. In the strong-coupling regime, the repulsion emerges solely due to the difference in the self-propulsion speeds of the particles. We also compute the short-time position distribution of the centroid of the coupled particles, which shows strongly non-Gaussian fluctuations at low temperatures. |
| title | From Attraction to Repulsion: Emergent Interactions in Harmonically Coupled Active Binary System |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14484 |