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Self-propelled particles can navigate complex environments, including viscous fluid interfaces with curved geometries. In this work, we study the emergent dynamics of a suspension of self-propelled particles confined to a stationary curved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-17 Yuzhu Chen , Vishal P. Patil , David Saintillan

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

Active matter has played a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of non-equilibrium systems, leading to a fundamental shift in the study of biophysical phenomena. The foundation of active matter research is built on assumptions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-09 Varun Venkatesh , Niels de Graaf Sousa , Amin Doostmohammadi

We introduce and analyse a continuum model for an interacting particle system of Vicsek type. The model is given by a non-linear kinetic partial differential equation (PDE) describing the time-evolution of the density $f_t$, in the single…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 Paolo Buttà , Franco Flandoli , Michela Ottobre , Boguslaw Zegarlinski

We investigate the interaction of magnetic vortices and skyrmions with a spin-polarized current. In a square lattice, fixed classical spins and quantum itinerant electrons, evolve according to the coupled Landau-Lifshitz and Schr\"odinger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-22 Ricardo Gabriel Elias , Alberto D. Verga

Spin dynamics in spatially inhomogeneous magnetic fields is studied within the framework of Boltzmann theory. Stern-Gerlach-like separation of spin up and spin down electrons occurs in ballistic and diffusive regimes, before spin relaxation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

Soliton rate equations are based on non-Kolmogorovian models of probability and naturally include autocatalytic processes. The formalism is not widely known but has great unexplored potential for applications to systems interacting with…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-09-10 Diederik Aerts , Marek Czachor , Maciej Kuna , Sandro Sozzo

Dynamics of the structured particles consisting of potentially interacting material points is considered in the framework of classical mechanics. Equations of interaction and motion of structured particles have been derived. The expression…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 V. M. Somsikov

We study mixtures of self-propelled and passive rod-like particles in two dimensions using Brownian dynamics simulations. The simulations demonstrate that the two species spontaneously segregate to generate a rich array of dynamical domain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-13 Samuel R. McCandlish , Aparna Baskaran , Michael F. Hagan

This article investigates the full Boltzmann equation up to second order in the cosmological perturbations. Describing the distribution of polarized radiation by using a tensor valued distribution function, the second order Boltzmann…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-03 Cyril Pitrou

Turbulence in growth of rain droplets and rain formation is studied under an approximating particle system representing aggregation at the level of individuals, depending on their volume and distance in space, of the Smoluchowski…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-25 Andrea Papini

We study a nonrelativistic system made of two quantum particles constrained to move on a line and a spin located at a fixed point of the line. Initially the two particles are in a maximally entangled state and the spin is down. The first…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Riccardo Adami , Luigi Barletti , Alessandro Teta

Consider a microscopic system of $N$ hard spheres that are initially independent (modulo the exclusion condition on particle positions) and identically distributed in $\mathbb{R}^3$. When the number $N$ of particles goes to infinity and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Thierry Bodineau , Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond , Sergio Simonella

In this work we develop constitutive equations for a dense, sheared suspension of frictionally interacting rods by applying Onsager's variational method as formulated by Doi. We treat both solid friction, of the Amontons-Coulomb form; and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-25 Chris Quiñones , Peter D. Olmsted

We study the collision of two spin polarized Fermi clouds in a harmonic trap using a simulation of the Boltzmann equation. As observed in recent experiments we find three distinct regimes of behavior. For weak interactions the clouds pass…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-11-30 Olga Goulko , Frédéric Chevy , Carlos Lobo

We discuss a formalism for the spin correlations and polarizations in two-particle systems with spins half-half, half-one and one-one, and provide the connections between the polarizations and correlations with the joint angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Rafiqul Rahaman , Ritesh K. Singh

We consider two simple models for the formation of polymers where at the initial time, each monomer has a certain number of potential links (called arms in the text) that are consumed when aggregations occur. Loosely speaking, this imposes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jean Bertoin

We consider the ordered and disordered dynamics for monolayers of rolling self-interacting particles with an offset center of mass and a non-isotropic inertia tensor. The rolling constraint is considered as a simplified model of a very…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Byungsoo Kim , Vakhtang Putkaradze

We study a class of interacting particle systems in which $n$ signed particles move on the real line. At close range particles with the same sign repel and particles with opposite sign attract each other. The repulsion and attraction are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Patrick van Meurs

Using relativistic kinetic theory, we study spherically symmetric, static equilibrium configurations of a collisionless Maxwell-Boltzmann gas with non-standard self-interactions, modelled by an effective one--particle force. The resulting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander Balakin , Roberto A. Sussman , Winfried Zimdahl