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Proliferation and motility are ubiquitous drivers of activity in biological systems. Here, we study a dense binary mixture of motile and proliferating particles with exclusively repulsive interactions, where homeostasis in the proliferating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-11 Lukas Hupe , Joanna M. Materska , David Zwicker , Ramin Golestanian , Bartlomiej Waclaw , Philip Bittihn

Coarsening, the process where larger structures grow at the expense of smaller ones, is a fundamental aspect of multiphase systems. The cell cytoplasm exemplifies an out-of-equilibrium multiphase system, where phase-separated condensates…

We perform Brownian dynamics simulations in two dimensions to study the collective behavior of circle swimmers, which are driven by both, an (effective) translational and rotational self-propulsion, and interact via steric repulsion. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Guo-Jun Liao , Sabine H. L. Klapp

There are many examples of driven and active matter systems containing particles that exhibit circular motion with different chiralities, such as swimming bacteria near surfaces or certain types of self-driven colloidal particles. Circular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Liquid-liquid phase separation of aqueous two-phase system (ATPS) is fundamental across physical and biological sciences. While well understood for passive systems, how this process is regulated by active agents such as motile bacteria…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-25 Dixi Yang , Anheng Wang , Chunming Wang , Hajime Tanaka , Jiaxing Yuan

We numerically investigated the dynamics of a mixture of finite-size active and passive particles in a linear array of convection rolls. The interplay of advection and steric interactions produces a number of interesting effects, like the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-14 Pulak Kumar Ghosh , Yuxin Zhou , Yunyun Li , Fabio Marchesoni , Franco Nori

We experimentally study the dynamics of active particles (APs) in a viscoelastic fluid under various geometrical constraints such as flat walls, spherical obstacles and cylindrical cavities. We observe that the main effect of the confined…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-21 N Narinder , Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Clemens Bechinger

Active colloids and self-propelled particles moving through microstructured fluids can display different behavior compared to what is observed in simple fluids. As they are driven out of equilibrium in complex fluids they can experience…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-04 Marco De Corato , Paula Martínez-Lera

Active emulsions and liquid crystalline shells are intriguing and experimentally realisable types of topological matter. Here we numerically study the morphology and spatiotemporal dynamics of a double emulsion, where one or two passive…

We numerically examine a bidisperse system of active and passive particles coupled to a resource substrate. The active particles deplete the resource at a fixed rate and move toward regions with higher resources, while all of the particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 L. Varga , A. Libal , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Phase separation of multicomponent lipid membranes is characterized by the nucleation and coarsening of circular membrane domains that grow slowly in time as $\sim t^{1/3}$, following classical theories of coalescence and Ostwald ripening.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-01 Daniel P. Arnold , Aakanksha Gubbala , Sho C. Takatori

Our ability to numerically model and understand the complex flow behavior of solid-bearing suspensions has increased significantly over the last couple of years, partly due to direct numerical simulations that compute flow around individual…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Zhipeng Qin , Kali Alison , Jenny Suckale

In this work, we study the dynamics of a single active Brownian particle, as well as the collective behavior of interacting active Brownian particles, in a fluctuating heterogeneous environment. We employ a variant of the diffusing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 S. M. J. Khadem , N. H. Siboni , S. H. L. Klapp

The formation of patterns and exotic nonequilibrium steady states in active-fluid systems continues to pose challenging problems -- theoretical, numerical, and experimental -- for statistical physicists and fluid dynamicists. We combine…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-12 Biswajit Maji , Nadia Bihari Padhan , Rahul Pandit

Active colloids are microscopic particles, which self-propel through viscous fluids by converting energy extracted from their environment into directed motion. We first explain how articial microswimmers move forward by generating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-12 Andreas Zöttl , Holger Stark

We computationally studied the phase behavior and dynamics of binary mixtures of active particles, where each 'species' had distinct activities leading to distinct velocities, fast and slow. We obtained phase diagrams demonstrating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-09 Thomas Kolb , Daphne Klotsa

Active matter systems are able to exhibit emergent non-equilibrium states due to activity-induced effective interactions between the active particles. Here we study the aggregation and dynamical behavior of active rotating particles,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-25 Juan L. Aragones , Joshua P. Steimel , Alfredo Alexander-Katz

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

The famous two-fluid model of finite-temperature superfluids has been recently extended to describe the mixed classical-superfluid dynamics of the newly discovered supersolid phase of matter. We show that for rigidly rotating supersolids…

Starting from a microscopic multiparticle Langevin equation, we systematically derive a hydrodynamic description in terms of density and momentum fields for chiral active particles interacting via standard repulsive and nonlocal odd forces.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-28 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Alessandro Petrini , Raphaël Maire , Lorenzo Caprini