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The dynamics and spontaneous organization of coupled particles is a classic problem in modeling and applied mathematics. Here we examine the behavior of particles coupled by the Ricker potential, exhibiting finite local repulsion…

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A classical wave-particle entity (WPE) can be realized experimentally as a droplet walking on the free surface of a vertically vibrating liquid bath, with the droplet's horizontal walking motion guided by its self-generated wave field.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Joshua Perks , Rahil Valani

Active particles are non-equilibrium entities that uptake energy and convert it into self-propulsion. A dynamically rich class of inertial active particles having features of wave-particle coupling and wave memory are walking/superwalking…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-03 Rahil N. Valani , David M. Paganin

We study the dynamics of a quantum or classical particle in a two-dimensional rotating anisotropic harmonic potential. By a sequence of symplectic transformations for constant rotation velocity we find uncoupled normal generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 I. Lizuain , A. Tobalina , A. Rodriguez-Prieto , J. G. Muga

We have proposed a method for the dynamic simulation of a collection of self-propelled particles in a viscous Newtonian fluid. We restrict attention to particles whose size and velocity are small enough that the fluid motion is in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Vishwajeet Mehandia , Prabhu R. Nott

We consider the damped and driven dynamics of two interacting particles evolving in a symmetric and spatially periodic potential. The latter is exerted to a time-periodic modulation of its inclination. Our interest is twofold: Firstly we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-23 D. Hennig , A. D. Burbanks , A. H. Osbaldestin , C. Mulhern

I review arguments demonstrating how the concept of "particle" numbers arises in the form of equidistant energy eigenvalues of coupled harmonic oscillators representing free fields. Their quantum numbers (numbers of nodes of the wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-04 H. D. Zeh

A novel two-tiered organization of the microworld is presented, in which only the fundamental quantum fields of the standard model of particle physics (electrons, photons, quarks, etc.) are true quantum waves, exhibiting linear…

General Physics · Physics 2011-07-29 Alan M. Kadin

Two-dimensional classical cluster of particles interacting through a screened Coulomb potential is studied. This system can be used as a model for "dusty particles" in high-frequency discharge plasma. For systems consisting of N = 2 - 40…

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The relationship between classical and quantum mechanics is explored in an intuitive manner by the exercise of constructing a wave in association with a classical particle. Using special relativity, the time coordinate in the frame of…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-08 C. L. Herzenberg

We investigate the self-organization of point-particles with short-range interactions modeled via simple 1D and 2D Hubbard-like models. We show how various properties emerge such as, boson-like ordering leading to topological structures in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-08 Ioannis Kleftogiannis , Ilias Amanatidis

Active particles, including swimming microorganisms, autophoretic colloids and droplets, are known to self-organize into ordered structures at fluid-solid boundaries. The entrainment of particles in the attractive parts of their spontaneous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-04 Shashi Thutupalli , Delphine Geyer , Rajesh Singh , Ronojoy Adhikari , Howard Stone

The natural and Dyson orbitals are studied for small helium drops comprising 5 to 20 helium atoms interacting via a soft two-body gaussian potential. The wave functions of these drops have been obtained in the hyperspherical cluster model…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2026-05-13 N. K. Timofeyuk

Actively propelled particles undergoing dissipative collisions are known to develop a state of spatially distributed coherently moving clusters. For densities larger than a characteristic value clusters grow in time and form a stationary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-23 Christoph A. Weber , Florian Thüroff , Erwin Frey

We study the unidirectional transport of two-particle quantum wavepackets in a regular one-dimensional lattice. We show that the bound-pair state component behaves differently from unbound states when subjected to an external pulsed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 A. R. C. Buarque , W. S. Dias

Self-organization is a property of dissipative nonlinear processes that are governed by an internal driver and a positive feedback mechanism, which creates regular geometric and/or temporal patterns and decreases the entropy, in contrast to…

We experimentally investigate the dynamics of synthetic active particles composed of gravitationally bouncing, superwalking droplets confined within an annular fluid bath. Driven by a topologically pumping dual-frequency waveform, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-19 Rudra Sekhri , Rahil N. Valani , Tapio Simula

Spontaneous emergence of organized states in materials driven by non-equilibrium conditions is of significant fundamental and technological interest. In many cases, the organized states are complex, hence, with some well-studied exceptions,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-17 Geet Raju , Nikos Kyriakopoulos , Jaakko V. I. Timonen

Classical particle mechanics on curved spaces is related to the flow of ideal fluids, by a dual interpretation of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. As in second quantization, the procedure relates the description of a system with a finite…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. van Holten

We consider the hydrodynamic theory of an active fluid of self-propelled particles with nematic aligning interactions. This class of materials has polar symmetry at the microscopic level, but forms macrostates of nematic symmetry. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-17 Aparna Baskaran , M. Cristina Marchetti