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Dipolar interactions govern the structure and dynamics of many soft-matter systems, from molecular to colloids assemblies. When dipole moments are induced by an external field, mutual interactions lead to a many-body magnetization response…

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We consider model of a complex particle that consists of a rigid shell and a nucleus with spatial asymmetric interaction. The particle's dynamics with the nucleus driven by a periodic excitation is considered. It is shown that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Denisov

Active-particle suspensions exhibit distinct polarization-density patterns in activity landscapes, even without anisotropic particle interactions. Such polarization without alignment forces is at work in motility-induced phase separation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Nicola Andreas Söker , Sven Auschra , Viktor Holubec , Klaus Kroy , Frank Cichos

We investigate systems of self-propelled particles with alignment interaction. Compared to previous work, the force acting on the particles is not normalized and this modification gives rise to phase transitions from disordered states at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle , Jian-Guo Liu

A continuum model for a population of self-propelled particles interacting through nematic alignment is derived from an individual-based model. The methodology consists of introducing a hydrodynamic scaling of the corresponding mean-field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Pierre Degond , Angelika Manhart , Hui Yu

The electrophoretic motion of a conducting particle, driven by an induced charge mechanism, is analyzed. The dependence of the motion upon particle shape is embodied in four tensorial coefficients that relate the particle velocities to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ehud Yariv

We study a class of one-dimensional classical fluids with penetrable particles interacting through positive, purely repulsive, pair-potentials. Starting from some lower bounds to the total potential energy, we draw results on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-28 Riccardo Fantoni

We present a comprehensive study of Vicsek-style self-propelled particle models in two and three space dimensions. The onset of collective motion in such stochastic models with only local alignment interactions is studied in detail and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hugues Chaté , Francesco Ginelli , Guillaume Grégoire , Franck Raynaud

We present a novel aligning active matter model by extending the nematic alignment rule in self-propelled rods to tunable alignment angles, as represented by collision of cone-shaped particles. Non-vanishing alignment angles introduce…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-29 Zichen Qin , Nariya Uchida

We study numerically a model of non-aligning self-propelled particles interacting through steric repulsion, which was recently shown to exhibit active phase separation in two dimensions in the absence of any attractive interaction or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-03 Yaouen Fily , Silke Henkes , M. Cristina Marchetti

We undertake a systematic numerical exploration of self-organized states in a deterministic model of interacting self-propelled particles in two dimensions. In the process, we identify various types of collective motion, namely, disordered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jihad Touma , Amer Shreim , Leonid Klushin

We show from experiments and simulations on vibration-activated granular matter that self-propelled polar rods in an elastic medium on a substrate turn and move towards each other. We account for this effective attraction through a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-08 Rahul Kumar Gupta , Raushan Kant , Harsh Soni , A. K. Sood , Sriram Ramaswamy

The formation of dynamical patterns is one of the most striking features of nonequilibrium physical systems. Recent work has shown that such patterns arise generically from forces that violate Newton's third law, known as nonreciprocal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-26 James Mason , Robert L. Jack , Maria Bruna

We consider an interaction of charged bodies under the following simplified conditions: the distribution of charge over each body is stable; the interaction of bodies is governed by electrical forces only. Physically, these assumptions can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-06 A. A. Kolpakov , A. G. Kolpakov

Large-scale collective behavior in suspensions of many particles can be understood from the balance of statistical forces emerging beyond the direct microscopic particle interactions. Here we review some aspects of the collective forces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-19 Thomas Speck

In active fluids and active solids the constituents individually generate movement by each extracting energy from their environment or from their own source. Non-reciprocal interactions among these active constituents then enable novel…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-18 Brady Wu , Qinghao Mao , Bryan VanSaders , Heinrich M. Jaeger

Systems composed of strongly interacting self-propelled particles can form a spontaneously flowing polar active fluid. The study of the connection between the microscopic dynamics of a single such particle and the macroscopic dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Benjamin Loewe , Anton Souslov , Paul M. Goldbart

In equilibrium, the collective behaviour of particles interacting via steep, short-ranged potentials is well captured by the virial expansion of the free energy at low density. Here, we extend this approach beyond equilibrium to the case of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-21 Yuting Irene Li , Rosalba Garcia-Millan , Michael E. Cates , Étienne Fodor

Self-propelled particles can spontaneously form dense phases from a dilute suspension in a process referred to as motility-induced phase separation. The properties of the out-of-equilibrium structures that are formed are governed by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-08 Sven Erik Ilse , Christian Holm , Joost de Graaf

We present an analytical many-body formalism for systems of spherical particles carrying arbitrary free charge distributions and interacting in a polarizable electrolyte solution, that we model within the linearized Poisson--Boltzmann…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-15 Sergii V. Siryk , Walter Rocchia