Condensation transition in the late-time position of a Run-and-Tumble particle

Abstract

We study the position distribution $P(\vec{R},N)$ of a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in arbitrary dimension $d$, after $N$ runs. We assume that the constant speed $v>0$ of the particle during each running phase is independently drawn from a probability distribution $W(v)$ and that the direction of the particle is chosen isotropically after each tumbling. The position distribution is clearly isotropic, $P(\vec{R},N)\to P(R,N)$ where $R=|\vec{R}|$. We show that, under certain conditions on $d$ and $W(v)$ and for large $N$, a condensation transition occurs at some critical value of $R=R_c\sim O(N)$ located in the large deviation regime of $P(R,N)$. For $R<R_c$ (subcritical fluid phase), all runs are roughly of the same size in a typical trajectory. In contrast, an RTP trajectory with $R>R_c$ is typically dominated by a `condensate', i.e., a large single run that subsumes a finite fraction of the total displacement (supercritical condensed phase). Focusing on the family of speed distributions $W(v)=\alpha (1-v/v_0{)}^{\alpha -1}/v_0$, parametrized by $\alpha >0$, we show that, for large $N$, $P(R,N)\sim \exp \left[-N{\psi }_{d,\alpha }(R/N)\right]$ and we compute exactly the rate function ${\psi }_{d,\alpha }(z)$ for any $d$ and $\alpha$. We show that the transition manifests itself as a singularity of this rate function at $R=R_c$ and that its order depends continuously on $d$ and $\alpha$. We also compute the distribution of the condensate size for $R>R_c$. Finally, we study the model when the total duration $T$ of the RTP, instead of the total number of runs, is fixed. Our analytical predictions are confirmed by numerical simulations, performed using a constrained Markov chain Monte Carlo technique, with precision $\sim 10^{-100}$.

44 pages, 14 figures

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