activity
20242026
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7 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Jamming transition in an active exclusion process

Kavita Jain, Sakuntala Chatterjee

Multiple studies on active matter have shown that activity can induce or suppress a phase transition, or modify the critical behavior of a passive system. Here we investigate how a…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

A Novel Mechanism of Ordering in a Coupled Driven System: Vacancy Induced Phase Separation

Chandradip Khamrai, Sakuntala Chatterjee

We study a coupled driven system where two different species of particles, along with some vacancies or holes, move on a landscape whose shape fluctuates with time. The movement of…

physics.bio-ph2025

Dynamics of chemo-receptor activity with time-periodic attractant field

Ramesh Pramanik, Ramu K Yadav, Sakuntala Chatterjee

When exposed to a time-periodic chemical signal, an \textit{E.~coli} cell responds by modulating its receptor activity in a similar time-periodic manner. However, there exists a ph…

q-bio.CB2025

Bacterial Chemotaxis in a Traveling Wave Attractant Environment

Shobhan Dev Mandal, Sakuntala Chatterjee

We study single cell E.coli chemotaxis in a spatio-temporally varying attractant environment. Modeling the attractant concentration in the form of a traveling sine wave, we measure…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Persistent exclusion process with time-periodic drive

Deepsikha Das, Sakuntala Chatterjee

We study a persistent exclusion process with time-periodic external potential on a 1d periodic lattice through numerical simulations. A set of run-and-tumble particles move on a la…

q-bio.CB2025

Run-and-tumble chemotaxis using reinforcement learning

Ramesh Pramanik, Shradha Mishra, Sakuntala Chatterjee

Bacterial cells use run-and-tumble motion to climb up attractant concentration gradient in their environment. By extending the uphill runs and shortening the downhill runs the cell…