Time-dependent properties of run-and-tumble particles: Density relaxation

Abstract

We characterize collective diffusion of hardcore run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) by explicitly calculating the bulk-diffusion coefficient $D(\rho ,\gamma )$ in two minimal models on a $d$ dimensional periodic lattice for arbitrary density $\rho$ and tumbling rate $\gamma$. We focus on two models: Model I is the standard version of hardcore RTPs [Phys. Rev. E \textbf{89}, 012706 (2014)], whereas model II is a long-ranged lattice gas (LLG) with hardcore exclusion - an analytically tractable variant of model I; notably, both models are found to have qualitatively similar features. In the strong-persistence limit $\gamma \to 0$ (i.e., dimensionless $r_0\gamma /v\to 0$), with $v$ and $r_0$ being the self-propulsion speed and particle diameter, respectively, the fascinating interplay between persistence and interaction is quantified in terms of two length scales - mean gap, or "mean free path", and persistence length $l_p=v/\gamma$. Indeed, for a small tumbling rate, the bulk-diffusion coefficient varies as a power law in a wide range of density: $D\propto {\rho }^{-\alpha }$, with exponent $\alpha$ gradually crossing over from $\alpha =2$ at high densities to $\alpha =0$ at low densities. Thus, the density relaxation is governed by a nonlinear diffusion equation with anomalous spatiotemporal scaling. Moreover, in the thermodynamic limit, we show that the bulk-diffusion coefficient - for $\rho ,\gamma \to 0$ with $\rho /\gamma$ fixed - has a scaling form $D(\rho ,\gamma )=D^{(0)}\mathcal{F}(\psi =\rho av/\gamma )$, where $a\sim r_0^{d-1}$ is particle cross-section and $D^{(0)}$ is proportional to the diffusivity of noninteracting particles; the scaling function $\mathcal{F}(\psi )$ is calculated analytically for model I and numerically for model II. Our arguments are independent of dimensions and microscopic details.

arXiv comment20 pages, 10 figures

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