Channel Formation Enhances Target Consumption by Chemotactic Active Brownian Particles
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| author | Rudyak, Vladimir Yu. Shinehorn, Shahar Roichman, Yael |
| author_facet | Rudyak, Vladimir Yu. Shinehorn, Shahar Roichman, Yael |
| contents | In many situations, simply finding a target during a search is not enough. It is equally important to be able to return to that target repeatedly or to enable a larger community to locate and utilize it. While first passage time is commonly used to measure search success, relatively little is known about increasing the average rate of target encounters over time. Here, using an active Brownian particle model with chemotaxis, we demonstrate that when a searcher has no memory and there is no communication among multiple searchers, encoding information about the target's location in the environment outperforms purely memoryless strategies by boosting the overall hit rate. We further show that this approach reduces the impact of target size on a successful search and increases the total utilization time of the target. |
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| spellingShingle | Channel Formation Enhances Target Consumption by Chemotactic Active Brownian Particles Rudyak, Vladimir Yu. Shinehorn, Shahar Roichman, Yael Soft Condensed Matter Statistical Mechanics In many situations, simply finding a target during a search is not enough. It is equally important to be able to return to that target repeatedly or to enable a larger community to locate and utilize it. While first passage time is commonly used to measure search success, relatively little is known about increasing the average rate of target encounters over time. Here, using an active Brownian particle model with chemotaxis, we demonstrate that when a searcher has no memory and there is no communication among multiple searchers, encoding information about the target's location in the environment outperforms purely memoryless strategies by boosting the overall hit rate. We further show that this approach reduces the impact of target size on a successful search and increases the total utilization time of the target. |
| title | Channel Formation Enhances Target Consumption by Chemotactic Active Brownian Particles |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Statistical Mechanics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11328 |