Irreversibility in active matter: General framework for active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles
arXiv:2011.02976 · doi:10.3389/fphy.2020.582992
Abstract
Active matter systems are driven out of equilibrium by conversion of energy into directed motion locally on the level of the individual constituents. In the spirit of a minimal description, active matter is often modeled by so-called active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles (AOUPs), an extension of passive Brownian motion where activity is represented by an additional fluctuating non-equilibrium "force" with simple statistical properties (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process). While in passive Brownian motion, entropy production along trajectories is well-known to relate to irreversibility in terms of the log-ratio of probabilities to observe a certain particle trajectory forward in time in comparison to observing its time-reversed twin trajectory, the connection between these concepts for active matter is less clear. It is therefore of central importance to provide explicit expressions for the irreversibility of active particle trajectories based on measurable quantities alone, such as the particle positions. In this technical note, we derive a general expression for the irreversibility of AOUPs in terms of path probability ratios (forward versus backward path), extending recent results from [PRX 9, 021009 (2019)] by allowing for arbitrary initial particle distributions and states of the active driving.
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