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We develop a kinetic theory of Brownian particles with long and short range interactions. We consider both overdamped and inertial models. In the overdamped limit, the evolution of the spatial density is governed by the generalized mean…

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Deformable self-propelled particles provide us with one of the most important nonlinear dissipative systems, which are related, for example, to the motion of microorganisms. It is emphasized that this is a subject of localized objects in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Tarama , Y. Itino , A. M. Menzel , T. Ohta

We study the impact of nematic alignment on scalar active matter in the disordered phase. We show that nematic torques control the emergent physics of particles interacting via pairwise forces and can either induce or prevent phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-18 Gianmarco Spera , Charlie Duclut , Marc Durand , Julien Tailleur

We derive the spin Boltzmann equations for spin-1/2 fermions in a non-relativistic model with four-fermion contact interaction which conserves spin degrees of freedom. A great advantage of the model is that the spin matrix elements in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-07 Wen-Bo Dong , Yi-Liang Yin , Qun Wang

The Smoluchowski equation is a system of partial differential equations modelling the diffusion and binary coagulation of a large collection of tiny particles. The mass parameter may be indexed either by positive integers, or by positive…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-01 Mohammad Reza Yaghouti , Fraydoun Rezakhanlou , Alan Hammond

We investigate the non-equilibrium fluid structure mediated forces between two colloids driven through a suspension of mutually non-interacting Brownian particles as well as between a colloid and a wall in stationary situations. We solve…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthias Krüger , Markus Rauscher

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

Self-propelled particles with anti-aligning interactions generally do not form a polar order. However, in this Letter, we show that when multiple types of such particles coexist and interact through aligning interactions between different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-08 Takahiro Oki , Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama , Seiya Nishikawa , Shuji Ishihara , Toshinori Namba

We study a fuzzy Boltzmann equation, where particles interact via delocalised collisions, in contrast to classical Boltzmann equations. We discuss the existence and uniqueness of solutions and provide a natural variational characterisation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Matthias Erbar , Zihui He

We study numerically and analytically a model of self-propelled polar disks on a substrate in two dimensions. The particles interact via isotropic repulsive forces and are subject to rotational noise, but there is no aligning interaction.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-24 Yaouen Fily , M. Cristina Marchetti

An active Brownian particle is a minimal model for a self-propelled colloid in a dissipative environment. Experiments and simulations show that, in the presence of boundaries and obstacles, active Brownian particle systems approach…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-17 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

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

A linear Boltzmann equation is derived in the Boltzmann-Grad scaling for the deterministic dynamics of many interacting particles with random initial data. We study a Rayleigh gas where a tagged particle is undergoing hard-sphere collisions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Karsten Matthies , George Stone , Florian Theil

In this paper we develop a model for nematic alignment of self-propelled rods interacting through binary collisions. We avoid phenomenological descriptions of rod interaction in favor of rigorously using a set of microscopic-level rules.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Misha Perepelitsa , Ilya Timofeyev , Patrick Murphy , Oleg A. Igoshin

We continue our study of the statistical properties of particles in equilibrium obeying Smoluchowski dynamics. We show that the system is governed by a kinetic equation of the memory function form and that the memory function is given by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-09 Gene F. Mazenko , David D. McCowan , Paul Spyridis

We propose a novel approach in the study of transport phenomena in dense systems or systems with long range interactions where multiple particle interactions must be taken into consideration. Within Boltzmann's kinetic formalism, we study…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Travis J. Sherman , Johann Rafelski

We present a comprehensive computational study of the collective behavior emerging from the competition between self-propulsion, excluded volume interactions and velocity-alignment in a two-dimensionnal model of active particles. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-08 Aitor Martín-Gómez , Demian Levis , Albert Díaz-Guilera , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We describe the large-scale collective behavior of solutions of polar biofilaments and both stationary and mobile crosslinkers. Both mobile and stationary crosslinkers induce filament alignment promoting either polar or nematic order. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Aphrodite Ahmadi , M. Cristina Marchetti , T. B. Liverpool

Our study explores the mixture of polar particles in apolar environment. We employ a coarse-grained approach to model the mixture, where polar particles are in minority. The interaction between polar and apolar components is incorporated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-11 Pawan Kumar Mishra , Partha Sarathi Mondal , Pratikshya Jena , Shradha Mishra

Correlation functions and form factors in vertex models or spin chains are known to satisfy certain difference equations called the quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations. We find similar difference equations for the case of semi-infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Michio Jimbo , Rinat Kedem , Hitoshi Konno , Tetsuji Miwa , Robert Weston