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Title: First-order condensation transition in the position distribution of a run-and-tumble particle in one dimension
(Submitted on 1 Jul 2021 (v1), last revised 29 Sep 2021 (this version, v2))
Abstract: We consider a single run-and-tumble particle (RTP) moving in one dimension. We assume that the velocity of the particle is drawn independently at each tumbling from a zero-mean Gaussian distribution and that the run times are exponentially distributed. We investigate the probability distribution $P(X,N)$ of the position $X$ of the particle after $N$ runs, with $N\gg 1$. We show that in the regime $ X \sim N^{3/4}$ the distribution $P(X,N)$ has a large deviation form with a rate function characterized by a discontinuous derivative at the critical value $X=X_c>0$. The same is true for $X=-X_c$ due to the symmetry of $P(X,N)$. We show that this singularity corresponds to a first-order condensation transition: for $X>X_c$ a single large jump dominates the RTP trajectory. We consider the participation ratio of the single-run displacements as the order parameter of the system, showing that this quantity is discontinuous at $X=X_c$. Our results are supported by numerical simulations performed with a constrained Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm.
Submission history
From: Francesco Mori [view email][v1] Thu, 1 Jul 2021 10:08:42 GMT (223kb,D)
[v2] Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:05:35 GMT (665kb,D)
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