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Origin of Persistent Boundary Motion in Confined Active Matter

Elsa Baby , Manoj Gopalakrishnan , Vishwas V. Vasisht This is my paper

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keywords active Brownian particleconfined active matterorientational bistabilityboundary accumulationstochastic flippingpower-law decaycircular confinementFokker-Planck
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Confinement couples active particle positions directly to orientational fluctuations via two preferred tangential states and stochastic flips.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows that the positional distribution of an active Brownian particle inside a hard circular boundary is directly tied to its orientational fluctuations through the conditional orientational distribution. Confinement produces two favored tangential orientations at the wall that are linked by fast local switches and slower interior-mediated paths. This link creates a power-law decay in particle density away from the boundary and makes the average time between orientation flips follow a power law with confinement strength. The result matters because it accounts for why active particles accumulate and move persistently along boundaries, shaping how they explore or leave confined regions.

Core claim

The positional distribution of the particle is directly coupled to orientational fluctuations, as characterized by the conditional orientational distribution. Confinement generates two preferred tangential orientational states connected by stochastic flipping pathways: rapid boundary-localized switching and slower bulk-mediated excursions. The positional distribution exhibits a nontrivial power-law decay with distance from the boundary that is closely linked to curvature-induced bistable orientational states and the variance of the associated conditional distribution. The mean waiting time between flips exhibits power-law dependence on the confinement strength.

What carries the argument

The conditional orientational distribution that connects position to curvature-induced bistable tangential orientations and enables stochastic flipping pathways.

Load-bearing premise

The hard circular boundary and the active Brownian particle model with constant speed and rotational diffusion are sufficient to produce the bistability and power-law behaviors without soft boundaries or extra interactions.

What would settle it

Measuring the conditional probability of orientation at fixed distances from the boundary would reveal two distinct peaks at tangential angles if the coupling holds; removing the hard wall or softening the boundary and finding the power-law decay and flip-time scaling disappear would falsify the claim.

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Figure 5. Figure 5: (b). The distributions exhibit an exponential form, indicating effective Poissonian like switching dynamics between the two orientational states. Adapting ψ(τw) to an exponential function, we extract the mean waiting time τ w. Increasing the confinement strength ˜u leads to progressively steeper distributions and therefore shorter mean waiting times, corresponding to an increased flip￾ping rate. The scaled… view at source ↗
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Active matter systems under confinement display persistent surface motion and a strong boundary affinity. However, despite extensive studies of their positional dynamics, much less attention has been given to the corresponding orientational behavior. Here, using molecular simulations of an active Brownian particle confined within a hard circular boundary and the Fokker-Planck equation, we show that the positional distribution of the particle is directly coupled to orientational fluctuations, as characterized by the conditional orientational distribution. Confinement generates two preferred tangential orientational states connected by stochastic flipping pathways: rapid boundary-localized switching and slower bulk-mediated excursions. Further, the positional distribution exhibits a nontrivial power-law decay with distance from the boundary that is closely linked to curvature-induced bistable orientational states and the variance of the associated conditional distribution. The mean waiting time between flips exhibits power-law dependence on the confinement strength. Our results establish that the interplay between orientational fluctuations, bistability, positional accumulation, and stochastic switching governs the observed dynamics of active particles under confinement, providing a framework for understanding transport, exploration, and escape processes in confined active systems.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript uses molecular simulations of an active Brownian particle (constant speed, rotational diffusion) inside a hard circular boundary together with the Fokker-Planck equation to argue that positional accumulation is directly coupled to orientational fluctuations. The central results are the conditional distribution P(θ|r) exhibiting two preferred tangential states, stochastic flipping pathways (boundary-localized rapid switches and slower bulk-mediated excursions), a power-law decay of the positional distribution whose exponent is linked to curvature-induced bistability and conditional variance, and a power-law dependence of the mean flip waiting time on confinement strength.

Significance. If the reported coupling and power-law relations survive scrutiny, the work supplies a concrete mechanistic link between orientational bistability and boundary persistence that could inform models of transport, exploration, and escape in confined active systems. The combination of direct simulation and Fokker-Planck analysis is a positive feature.

major comments (2)
  1. [Model section and Fokker-Planck derivation] The hard-wall no-flux boundary condition used in both the simulations and the Fokker-Planck operator is load-bearing for the reported bistability of P(θ|r) and the quantitative power-law relations. Any finite boundary stiffness or near-wall hydrodynamic lubrication would smooth the effective potential for θ near the wall and could merge the two tangential peaks or change the relative weight of boundary-localized versus bulk-mediated flip pathways, thereby altering the waiting-time scaling and the positional exponent even if qualitative accumulation persists.
  2. [Results on positional distribution and waiting times] The abstract and results sections state that the positional power-law decay is 'closely linked' to the bistable orientational states and that the waiting time exhibits power-law dependence on confinement strength, yet no quantitative checks (error bars, fit ranges, direct simulation-Fokker-Planck comparison, or sensitivity to rotational diffusion coefficient) are supplied. This prevents assessment of how strongly the data support the claimed coupling.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Methods] Clarify whether 'molecular simulations' refers to overdamped Brownian dynamics or includes inertial terms; the model description should explicitly state the integration scheme and time-step convergence.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions and axis labels for the conditional distributions P(θ|r) should include the precise definition of the radial binning and the normalization used.

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We thank the referee for the careful reading of our manuscript and the constructive comments. We address each major point below and have revised the manuscript to strengthen the quantitative support and clarify the scope of the hard-wall model.

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  1. Referee: [Model section and Fokker-Planck derivation] The hard-wall no-flux boundary condition used in both the simulations and the Fokker-Planck operator is load-bearing for the reported bistability of P(θ|r) and the quantitative power-law relations. Any finite boundary stiffness or near-wall hydrodynamic lubrication would smooth the effective potential for θ near the wall and could merge the two tangential peaks or change the relative weight of boundary-localized versus bulk-mediated flip pathways, thereby altering the waiting-time scaling and the positional exponent even if qualitative accumulation persists.

    Authors: We agree that the ideal hard-wall boundary condition is central to the reported bistability and power-law scalings. In the revised manuscript we have added an explicit discussion of this modeling choice in the Model section, noting that softer boundaries or lubrication forces could quantitatively modify the orientational potential and flip pathways. To test robustness we performed additional simulations with a stiff harmonic wall potential; the bistable tangential states and power-law positional decay persist for wall stiffnesses comparable to the particle propulsion force. We have included these results in the supplementary information and updated the main text to state the limitation clearly while emphasizing that the hard-wall case provides the cleanest link to the Fokker-Planck analysis. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Results on positional distribution and waiting times] The abstract and results sections state that the positional power-law decay is 'closely linked' to the bistable orientational states and that the waiting time exhibits power-law dependence on confinement strength, yet no quantitative checks (error bars, fit ranges, direct simulation-Fokker-Planck comparison, or sensitivity to rotational diffusion coefficient) are supplied. This prevents assessment of how strongly the data support the claimed coupling.

    Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting the need for stronger quantitative validation. In the revised manuscript we now report error bars on the positional distributions and waiting-time data, obtained from at least ten independent runs. The fitting ranges for the power-law exponents are specified in the figure captions and methods. We have added a direct side-by-side comparison of the simulation histograms with the numerical solution of the Fokker-Planck equation for both P(r) and the mean flip waiting time. Finally, we include a brief sensitivity analysis to the rotational diffusion coefficient D_r in the main text, with supporting plots in the supplementary information. These additions provide a clearer assessment of the coupling strength. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; results emerge from independent simulations and Fokker-Planck solution

full rationale

The paper derives its central claims—the coupling of positional distribution to conditional orientational distribution P(θ|r), the emergence of two curvature-induced tangential bistable states, the power-law decay of positional density, and the power-law scaling of mean flip waiting times—directly from molecular dynamics simulations of the standard active Brownian particle model plus the corresponding Fokker-Planck operator with hard-wall boundary conditions. These quantities are computed outputs rather than inputs; the bistability and scalings are not presupposed by any fitted parameter or self-referential definition. No load-bearing self-citations, ansatz smuggling, or renaming of known results appear in the derivation chain. The analysis remains self-contained against the stated model assumptions.

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