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Doi-Peliti field theory of free active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles
Marius Bothe1, Gunnar Pruessner1
1Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We derive a Doi-Peliti field theory for free active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles, or, equivalently, free inertial Brownian particles, and present a way to diagonalize the quadratic part of the action and calculate the propagator. Unlike previous coarse-grained approaches this formulation correctly tracks particle identity and yet can easily be expanded to include potentials and arbitrary reactions.
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