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We present an experimental investigation of the pressure dynamics during the flow of self-propelled particles through narrow passages. When the ensemble is flowing, pressure fluctuates around a constant value that does not depend on the…

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Examples of self propulsion in strongly fluctuating environment is abound in nature, e.g., molecular motors and pumps operating in living cells. Starting from Langevin equation of motion, we develop a fluctuating thermodynamic description…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-20 Chandrima Ganguly , Debasish Chaudhuri

We study a system of hard-core particles sliding downwards on a fluctuating one-dimensional surface which is characterized by a dynamical exponent $z$. In numerical simulations, an initially random particle density is found to coarsen and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dibyendu Das , Mustansir Barma

In this paper, we study the dynamics of a system of $n$ coupled, self-propelled particles: $\ddot r_k = (\alpha-\beta |\dot r_k|^2)\dot r_k - \frac{\gamma}{n}\sum_{m=1}^n(r_k-r_m)$, $r_k\in \mathbb R^2.$ Numerical experiments indicate that,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Carl Kolon , Constantine Medynets , Irina Popovici

We introduce a model of self-propelled particles carrying out a Brownian motion with a diffusion coefficient which depends on the local density of particles within a certain finite radius. Numerical simulations show that in a range of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cristobal Lopez

We study a collection of polar self-propelled particles confined to a long two-dimensional channel. We write the coupled hydrodynamic equations of motion for density and polarisation order parameter. At two confined boundaries, density is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-02 Shradha Mishra , Sudipta Pattanayak

We study a coupled driven system in which two species of particles are advected by a fluctuating potential energy landscape. While the particles follow the potential gradient, each species affects the local shape of the landscape in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Shauri Chakraborty , Sakuntala Chatterjee , Mustansir Barma

By generalizing a class of models recently introduced to account for protracted transients in biological systems, we identify a novel mechanism for hyperuniformity. In this model, competition of particles over a shared resource guides the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-11 Tal Agranov , Natan Wiegenfeld , Omer Karin , Benjamin D. Simons

We investigate numerically the dynamics of shape and displacement fluctuations of two-dimensional flexible vesicles filled with active particles. At low concentration most of the active particles accumulate at the boundary of the vesicle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-29 Matteo Paoluzzi , Roberto Di Leonardo , M Cristina Marchetti , Luca Angelani

We investigate the effect of cooperative interactions in an ensemble of microorganisms, modelled as self-propelled disk-like and rod-like particles, in a three-dimensional turbulent flow to show flocking as an emergent phenomenon. Building…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-20 Anupam Gupta , Amal Roy , Arnab Saha , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Aligning self-propelled particles undergo a nonequilibrium flocking transition from apolar to polar phases as their interactions become stronger. We propose a thermodynamically consistent lattice model, in which the internal state of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-08 Karel Proesmans , Gianmaria Falasco , Atul Tanaji Mohite , Massimiliano Esposito , Étienne Fodor

We study a set of models of self-propelled particles that achieve collective motion through similar alignment-based dynamics, considering versions with and without repulsive interactions that do not affect the heading directions. We explore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-27 Yinong Zhao , Thomas Ihle , Zhangang Han , Cristián Huepe , Pawel Romanczuk

We analyse collective motion that occurs during rare (large deviation) events in systems of active particles, both numerically and analytically. We discuss the associated dynamical phase transition to collective motion, which occurs when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-10 Yann-Edwin Keta , Étienne Fodor , Frédéric van Wijland , Michael E. Cates , Robert L. Jack

Equation of state for systems with particles self-assembling into aggregates is derived within a mesoscopic theory combining density functional and field-theoretic approaches. We focus on the effect of mesoscopic fluctuations in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-13 Alina Ciach , Oksana Patsahan

We study the entropy production rate (EPR) of aligning self-propelled particles which undergo a flocking transition towards a polarized collective motion. In our thermodynamically consistent lattice model, individual self-propulsion is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-18 Tal Agranov , Robert L. Jack , Michael E. Cates , Étienne Fodor

We present a comprehensive theory of the dynamics and fluctuations of a two-dimensional suspension of polar active particles in an incompressible fluid confined to a substrate. We show that, depending on the sign of a single parameter, a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-22 Ananyo Maitra , Pragya Srivastava , M. Cristina Marchetti , Sriram Ramaswamy , Martin Lenz

Self-propelled point-like particles move along circular trajectories when their translocation velocity is constant and the angular velocity related to their orientation vector is also constant. We investigate the collective behavior of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 Yingzi Yang , Feng Qiu , Gerhard Gompper

The diffusion of active microscopic organisms in complex environments plays an important role in a wide range of biological phenomena from cell colony growth to single organism transport. Here, we investigate theoretically and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-16 Juan L. Aragones , Shahrzad Yazdi , Alfredo Alexander-Katz

We present a derivation of a recently proposed theory for the time dependence of density fluctuations in stationary states of strongly interacting, athermal, self-propelled particles. The derivation consists of two steps. First, we start…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-13 Grzegorz Szamel

The goal of this investigation was to derive strictly new properties of chaotic systems and their mutual relations. The generalized Fokker-Planck equation with a non stationary diffusion has been derived and used for chaos analysis. An…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-29 Sergey A. Kamenshchikov