Splitting probabilities of confined chiral active Brownian particles
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| author | Iyaniwura, Sarafa A. Peng, Zhiwei |
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| contents | Active particles exhibit self-propulsion, leading to transport behavior that differs fundamentally from passive Brownian motion. In confined or structured domains, activity strongly influence escape probabilities and first-passage behavior. Understanding these effects is essential for describing transport in biological microenvironments, microfluidic devices, and heterogeneous media. In this work, leveraging the backward Fokker--Planck equation, we investigate the splitting probability of chiral active Brownian particles in confined domains, focusing on both a one-dimensional interval and a two-dimensional corrugated channel. Analytical solutions are derived for the one-dimensional case in various asymptotic regimes. In corrugated channels with small aspect ratios, we develop a Fick--Jacobs reduction that yields effective transport equations along the axial direction, whereas for finite aspect ratios, the splitting dynamics are characterized numerically. We demonstrate how channel geometry, particle activity, and chirality modulate the likelihood of escape through different boundaries. Our results provide quantitative predictions for the transport of active matter in complex environments and highlight the interplay between confinement and activity. |
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| spellingShingle | Splitting probabilities of confined chiral active Brownian particles Iyaniwura, Sarafa A. Peng, Zhiwei Soft Condensed Matter Active particles exhibit self-propulsion, leading to transport behavior that differs fundamentally from passive Brownian motion. In confined or structured domains, activity strongly influence escape probabilities and first-passage behavior. Understanding these effects is essential for describing transport in biological microenvironments, microfluidic devices, and heterogeneous media. In this work, leveraging the backward Fokker--Planck equation, we investigate the splitting probability of chiral active Brownian particles in confined domains, focusing on both a one-dimensional interval and a two-dimensional corrugated channel. Analytical solutions are derived for the one-dimensional case in various asymptotic regimes. In corrugated channels with small aspect ratios, we develop a Fick--Jacobs reduction that yields effective transport equations along the axial direction, whereas for finite aspect ratios, the splitting dynamics are characterized numerically. We demonstrate how channel geometry, particle activity, and chirality modulate the likelihood of escape through different boundaries. Our results provide quantitative predictions for the transport of active matter in complex environments and highlight the interplay between confinement and activity. |
| title | Splitting probabilities of confined chiral active Brownian particles |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13621 |