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Generic models of propelled particle systems posit that the emergence of polar order is driven by the competition between local alignment and noise. Although this notion has been confirmed employing the Boltzmann equation, the range of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-26 Florian Thüroff , Christoph A. Weber , Erwin Frey

Self-propelled particles with hydrodynamic interactions (microswimmers) have previously been shown to produce long-range ordering phenomena. Many theoretical explanations for these collective phenomena are connected to instabilities in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-03 Yuzhou Qian , Peter R. Kramer , Patrick T. Underhill

We demonstrate that active rotations in chemically signalling particles, such as autochemotactic {\it E. coli} close to walls, create a route for pattern formation based on a nonlinear yet deterministic instability mechanism. For slow…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-19 Benno Liebchen , Michael E. Cates , Davide Marenduzzo

The emergence of hydrodynamic bend instabilities in ordered suspensions of active particles is widely observed across diverse living and synthetic systems, and is considered to be governed by dipolar active stresses generated by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-09 Sameer Kumar , Niels de Graaf Sousa , Amin Doostmohammadi

Non-equilibrium self-organized patterns formed by particles interacting through competing range interaction are driven over a substrate by an external force. We show that, with increasing driving force, the pre-existed static patterns…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-20 H. J. Zhao , V. R. Misko , F. M. Peeters

We introduce a stochastic agent-based model for the flocking dynamics of self-propelled particles that exhibit velocity-alignment interactions with neighbours within their field of view. The stochasticity in the dynamics of the model arises…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Trilochan Bagarti , Shakti N. Menon

We consider two (off-lattice) varieties of out-of-equilibrium systems, viz., granular and active matter systems, that, in addition to displaying velocity ordering, exhibit fascinating pattern formation in the density field, similar to those…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-17 Subir K. Das , Sohini Chatterjee , Wasim Akram , Subhajit Paul , Saikat Chakraborty , Arabinda Bera

We discuss a simple model of particles hopping in one dimension with attractive interactions. Taking a hydrodynamic limit in which the interaction strength increases with the system size, we observe the formation of multiple clusters of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-05 Matthew Burman , Daniel Carpenter , Robert L. Jack

In a system of noisy self-propelled particles with interactions that favor directional alignment, collective motion will appear if the density of particles increases beyond a certain threshold. In this paper, we argue that such a threshold…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-03-29 Chiu Fan Lee

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

A model for a monolayer of two types of particles spontaneously forming ordered patterns is studied by a mesoscopic theory and by MC simulations. We assume hard-cores of the same size for both components, short-range attraction long-range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-10 O. Patsahan , A. Meyra , A. Ciach

We consider an Individual-Based Model for self-rotating particles interacting through local alignment and investigate its macroscopic limit. This model describes self-propelled particles moving in the plane and trying to synchronize their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 Pierre Degond , Giacomo Dimarco , Thi Bich Ngoc Mac

We study analytically the emergence of spontaneous collective motion within large bidimensional groups of self-propelled particles with noisy local interactions, a schematic model for assemblies of biological organisms. As a central result,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric Bertin , Michel Droz , Guillaume Gregoire

We study a simple swarming model on a two-dimensional lattice where the self-propelled particles exhibit a tendency to align ferromagnetically. Volume exclusion effects are present: particles can only hop to a neighboring node if the node…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Fernando Peruani , Tobias Klauss , Andreas Deutsch , Anja Voss-Boehme

We study the spatial patterns formed by a system of interacting particles where the mobility of any individual is determined by the population crowding at two different spatial scales. In this way we model the behavior of some biological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-08 Ricardo Martínez-García , Clara Murgui , Emilio Hernández-García , Cristóbal López

We introduce a novel model for active particles with short-range aligning interactions and study their behaviour in crowded environments using numerical simulations. When only active particles are present, we observe a transition from a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Simon Nilsson , Giovanni Volpe

The collective motion of interacting self-driven particles describes many types of coordinated dynamics and self-organisation. Prominent examples are alignment or lane formation which can be observed alongside other ordered structures and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-02-24 Basma Khelfa , Raphael Korbmacher , Andreas Schadschneider , Antoine Tordeux

Pattern formation often occurs in confined systems, yet how boundaries shape patterning dynamics is unclear. We develop techniques to analyze confinement effects in nonlocal advection-diffusion equations, which generically capture the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-11 Jan Rombouts , Michael L Zhao , Alexander Aulehla , Anna Erzberger

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 propose and study a hydrodynamic model for pattern formation in mixtures of molecular motors and microtubules. The steady state patterns we obtain in different regimes of parameter space include arrangements of vortices and asters…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sumithra Sankararaman , Gautam I. Menon , P. B. Sunil Kumar