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We investigate the steady-state and dynamical properties of a reciprocal many-body system consisting of self-propelled active particles with local alignment interactions that exists within a fan-shaped neighborhood of each particle. We find…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-07 Wei-chen Guo , Zuo Wang , Pei-fang Wu , Li-jun Lang , Bao-quan Ai , Liang He

This paper extends the multiscale modeling framework introduced in Part I (Deng and Ha, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 483 (2025) 134951) for sea-ice floe dynamics with non-rotating floes to the case with rotational floes and nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Quanling Deng , Seung-Yeal Ha , Jaemoon Lee

We study the simplest terms that need to be included in active field theories to couple them to external potentials. To do so, we consider active Brownian particles and implement a systematic perturbative expansion in the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yariv Kafri , Julien Tailleur

We study a system of self-propelled disks that perform run-and-tumble motion, where particles can adopt more than one internal state. One of those internal states can be transmitted to another particle if the particle carrying this state…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Fernando Peruani , Gustavo Sibona

The dynamical response of a tethered semiflexible polymer with self-attractive interactions and subjected to an external force field is numerically investigated by varying stiffness and self-interaction strength. The chain is confined in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-09 A. Lamura

Linking the microscopic and macroscopic behavior is at the heart of many natural and social sciences. This apparent similarity conceals essential differences across disciplines: while physical particles are assumed to optimize the global…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-12-09 Sébastian Grauwin , Eric Bertin , Rémi Lemoy , Pablo Jensen

Study of the classical motion of two identical particles on a plane subject to non-Coulomb potentials in a constant magnetic field presented in polar coordinates. With the rigorous analysis of the potentials and the constants of motion, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 André Vallières , Malik Amir

Self-propelled Brownian particles show rich out-of-equilibrium physics, for instance, the motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). While decades of studying the structure of liquids have established a deep understanding of passive systems,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-17 Andreas Härtel , David Richard , Thomas Speck

This paper builds on two previous works, Lindgren et al. J. Comp. Phys. 371, 712-731 (2018) and Quan et al. arXiv:1807.05384 (2018), to devise a new method to solve the problem of calculating electrostatic interactions in a system composed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-20 Eric B. Lindgren , Chaoyu Quan , Benjamin Stamm

We derive the gravitational and electrostatic self-energies of a particle at rest in the background of a cosmic dispiration (topological defect), finding that the particle may experience potential steps, well potentials or potential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 V. A. De Lorenci , E. S. Moreira

Understanding the organization of collective motion in biological systems is an ongoing challenge. In this Paper we consider a minimal model of self-propelled particles with variable speed. Inspired by experimental data from schooling fish,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shradha Mishra , Kolbjørn Tunstrøm , Iain D. Couzin , Cristián Huepe

We consider a directed walk model of a homopolymer (in two dimensions) which is self-interacting and can undergo a collapse transition, subject to an applied tensile force. We review and interpret all the results already in the literature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Brak , P. Dyke , J. Lee , A. L. Owczarek , T. Prellberg , A. Rechnitzer , S. G. Whittington

Two identical particles driven by the same steady force through a viscous fluid may move relative to one another due to hydrodynamic interactions. The presence or absence of this relative translation has a profound effect on the dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-04 Yulia Sokolov , Haim Diamant

We study general aspects of active motion with fluctuations in the speed and the direction of motion in two dimensions. We consider the case in which fluctuations in the speed are not correlated to fluctuations in the direction of motion,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando Peruani , Luis G. Morelli

We introduce a new class of models for interacting particles. Our construction is based on Jacobians for the radial coordinates on certain superspaces. The resulting models contain two parameters determining the strengths of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-18 Heiner Kohler , Thomas Guhr

We consider a model of the classical spinning particle in which the coadjoint orbits of the Poincare group are parametrized by two pairs of canonically conjugate four vectors, one representing the standard position and momentum variables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-17 Trevor Rempel , Laurent Freidel

There is currently a strong interest in the collective behavior of chiral active particles that can propel and rotate themselves. In the presence of alignment interactions for many chiral particles, chiral self-propulsion can induce vortex…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-01 Lorenzo Caprini , Benno Liebchen , Hartmut Löwen

We consider a body in a parallel flow of non-interacting particles. One can imagine that the flow is highly rarefied or consists of light rays. The interaction of particles with the body is perfectly elastic. We introduce the notions of a…

Optics · Physics 2009-01-20 Alena Aleksenko , Alexander Plakhov

The motion of a deformable active particle in linear shear flow is explored theoretically. Based on symmetry considerations, in two spatial dimensions, we propose coupled nonlinear dynamical equations for the particle position, velocity,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Mitsusuke Tarama , Andreas M. Menzel , Borge ten Hagen , Raphael Wittkowski , Takao Ohta , Hartmut Löwen

Physical learning is an emerging paradigm in science and engineering whereby (meta)materials acquire desired macroscopic behaviors by exposure to examples. So far, it has been applied to static properties such as elastic moduli and…