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Instantons for the destabilization of the inner Solar System
Eric Woillez, Freddy Bouchet
For rare events, path probabilities often concentrate close to a predictable path, called instanton. First developed in statistical physics and field theory, instantons are action…
The active trap model
Eric Woillez, Yariv Kafri, Nir Gov
Motivated by the dynamics of particles embedded in active gels, both in-vitro and inside the cytoskeleton of living cells, we study an active generalization of the classical trap m…
Ramifications of disorder on active particles in one dimension
Ydan Ben Dor, Eric Woillez, Yariv Kafri +2
The effects of quenched disorder on a single and many active run-and-tumble particles is studied in one dimension. For a single particle, we consider both the steady-state distribu…
Activated escape of a self-propelled particle from a metastable state
Eric Woillez, Yongfeng Zhao, Yariv Kafri +2
We study the noise-driven escape of active Brownian particles (ABPs) and run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) from confining potentials. In the small noise limit, we provide an exact ex…
Transport in Hamiltonian systems with slowly changing phase space structure
Freddy Bouchet, Eric Woillez
Transport in Hamiltonian systems with weak chaotic perturbations has been much studied in the past. In this paper, we introduce a new class of problems: transport in Hamiltonian sy…