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A new type of kinetic models with non-instantaneous binary collisions is considered. Collisions are described by a transport process in the joint state space of a pair of particles. The interactions are of alignment type, where the states…

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Life mechanics, an emerging field, focuses on the self-organizing forces and motions within living systems. This study introduces the novel concept of active force, generated by mind-body interactions, as an essential element in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 Rong Li , Weicheng Cui

A solvable many-body problem in the plane is exhibited. It is characterized by rotation-invariant Newtonian (``acceleration equal force'') equations of motion, featuring one-body (``external'') and pair (``interparticle'') forces. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Francesco Calogero

We derive from first principles a three-dimensional theory of self-propelled particle swarming in a viscous fluid environment. Our model predicts emergent collective behavior that depends critically on fluid opacity, mechanism of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-12 Yao-Li Chuang , M. R. D'Orsogna , T. Chou

The collective motion of chemically active particles at an air-liquid interface is studied theoretically as a dynamic self-organization problem. Based on a physical consideration, we propose a minimal model for self-propelled particles by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-10 Shun Imamura , Toshihiro Kawakatsu

We investigate the motion of one and two charged non-relativistic particles on a sphere in the presence of a magnetic field of uniform strength. For one particle, the motion is always circular, and determined by a simple relation between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Nataliya A. Balabanova , James Montaldi

This article reviews recent research on the collective dynamical behavior of colloids with dipolar or multipolar interactions. Indeed, whereas equilibrium structures and static self-assembly of such systems are now rather well understood,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-02 Sabine H. L. Klapp

We study a system of interacting self-propelled particles whose walking velocity depends on the stage of the locomotion cycle. The model introduces a phase equation in the optimal velocity model for vehicular traffic. We find that the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-23 Takahiro Ezaki , Ryosuke Nishi , Daichi Yanagisawa , Katsuhiro Nishinari

We investigate the steady-state organisation of active particles residing on an interface. Particle activity induces interface deformations, while the local shape of the interface guides particle movement. We consider multiple species of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-28 Love Grover , Rajeev Kapri , Abhishek Chaudhuri

When out-of-equilibrium particles interact by means of pairwise forces, their stationary distribution in general exhibits many-body interactions. In the particular case of active particles, it has been shown numerically that the Motility…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Frédéric van Wijland

In this thesis, multipole expansions of mass, momentum and stress density will be made for a body in Newtonian mechanics. Using these definitions; momentum, angular momentum, center of mass, force and torque are defined for $N$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-19 Ibrahim Burak Ilhan

In this work we investigate the collective behavior of self-propelled particles that deform due to local pairwise interactions. We demonstrate that this deformation alone can induce alignment of the velocity vectors. The onset of collective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-20 Andreas M. Menzel , Takao Ohta

The system of particles interacting via multibody interatomic potential of general form is considered. Possible variants of partition of the total force acting on a single particle into pair contributions are discussed. Two definitions for…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-11 Vitaly A. Kuzkin

We consider a microscopic field theoretical approach for interacting active nematic particles. With only steric interactions the self-propulsion strength in such systems can lead to different collective behaviour, e.g., synchronized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-04 Veit Krause , Axel Voigt

The asymptotic analysis of kinetic models describing the behavior of particles interacting through alignment is performed. We will analyze the asymptotic regime corresponding to large alignment frequency where the alignment effects are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-16 M. Bostan , J. A. Carrillo

The general form of the electrostatic potential around an arbitrarily charged colloid at an interface between a dielectric and a screening phase (such as air and water, respectively) is analyzed in terms of a multipole expansion. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-11 A. Dominguez , D. Frydel , M. Oettel

Designing microscopic and nanoscopic self-propelled particles and characterising their motion has become a major scientific challenge over the past decades. To this purpose, phoretic effects, namely propulsion mechanisms relying on local…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-09 Pierre Illien , Ramin Golestanian , Ayusman Sen

Synthetic active matter systems, such as active colloids, often have complex interactions, which can be of hydrodynamic, chemical or electrostatic origin and cannot be computed from first principles. Here, we use Stochastic Force Inference…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-26 Jérôme Hem , Alexis Poncet , Pierre Ronceray , Daiki Nishiguchi , Vincent Démery

The term active matter describes diverse systems, spanning macroscopic (e.g. shoals of fish and flocks of birds) to microscopic scales (e.g. migrating cells, motile bacteria and gels formed through the interaction of nanoscale molecular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-03-11 Gautam I. Menon

In addition to self-propulsion by phoretic mechanisms that arises from an asymmetric distribution of reactive species around a catalytic motor, spherical particles with a uniform distribution of catalytic activity may also propel themselves…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-08 Pierre de Buyl , Alexander S. Mikhailov , Raymond Kapral