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This is the first of two articles on the study of a particle system model that exhibits a Turing instability type effect. The model is based on two discrete lines (or toruses) with Ising spins, that evolve according to a continuous time…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Monia Capanna , Nahuel Soprano-Loto

We study in detail the active Ising model, a stochastic lattice gas where collective motion emerges from the spontaneous breaking of a discrete symmetry. On a 2d lattice, active particles undergo a diffusion biased in one of two possible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-12 A. P. Solon , J. Tailleur

We introduce a class of lattice gas models of active matter systems whose hydrodynamic description can be derived exactly. We illustrate our approach by considering two systems exhibiting two of the most studied collective behaviours in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-04 Mourtaza Kourbane-Houssene , Clément Erignoux , Thierry Bodineau , Julien Tailleur

We consider an active Ising model in which spins both diffuse and align on lattice in one and two dimensions. The diffusion is biased so that plus or minus spins hop preferably to the left or to the right, which generates a flocking…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-09 A. Solon , J. Tailleur

In this paper, we present a two-species Vicsek model, that describes alignment interactions of self-propelled particles which can either move or not. The model consists in two populations with distinct Vicsek dynamics that interact only via…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Laurent Navoret

We consider systems of interacting particles which are described by a second order Langevin equation. The class of equations considered includes the situation where the particle evolution is governed by Hamiltonian dynamics with additional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Fenna Müller , Max von Renesse , Johannes Zimmer

The Vicsek model of self-propelled particles is known in three different phases: (i) a polar ordered homogeneous phase also called Toner-Tu phase, (iii) a phase of polar ordered regularly arranged high density bands (waves) with surrounding…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-04 Rüdiger Kürsten , Thomas Ihle

We consider a coarse-grained description of a system of self-propelled particles given by hydrodynamic equations for the density and polarization fields. We find that the ordered moving or flocking state of the system is unstable to spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Shradha Mishra , Aparna Baskaran , M. Cristina Marchetti

Two hallmarks of non-equilibrium systems, from active colloids to animal herds, are agents motility and nonreciprocal interactions. Their interplay creates feedback loops leading to complex spatiotemporal dynamics crucial to understand and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-17 David Martin , Daniel Seara , Yael Avni , Michel Fruchart , Vincenzo Vitelli

The complex formations exhibited by schooling fish have long been the object of fascination for biologists and physicists. However, the physical and sensory mechanisms leading to organized collective behavior remain elusive. On the physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-09 Anand U. Oza , Eva Kanso , Michael J. Shelley

We study the spatially homogeneous phases of polar active particles in the low density limit, and specifically the transition from the isotropic phase to collective polar motion. We show that the fundamental quantity of interest for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-04 Khanh-Dang Nguyen Thu Lam , Michael Schindler , Olivier Dauchot

Collective behavior occurs ubiquitously in nature and it plays a key role in bacterial colonies, mammalian cells or flocks of birds. Here, we examine the average density and velocity of self-propelled particles, which are described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-29 C. Trenado , L. L. Bonilla , A. Marquina

We investigate the linearized hydrodynamic equations of interacting self-propelled particles in two dimensional space. It is found that the small perturbations of density and polarization fields satisfy the hyperbolic partial differential…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Waipot Ngamsaad , Suthep Suantai

We develop a purely hydrodynamic formalism to describe collisional, anisotropic instabilities in a relativistic plasma, that are usually described with kinetic theory tools. Our main motivation is the fact that coarse-grained models of high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 Esteban Calzetta , Alejandra Kandus

Flocking phase transitions found in models of polar active matter are paradigmatic examples of active phase transitions in soft matter. An interesting specialization of flocking models concerns a ``topological'' vs ``metric'' choice by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-10 Charles R. Packard , Daniel M. Sussman

(abridged) We present a detailed derivation of a simple hydrodynamic two-fluid model, which aims at the description of the phase separation of non-entangled polymer solutions, where viscoelastic effects play a role. It is directly based…

Hydrodynamic equations for an isotropic solution of active polar filaments are derived from a microscopic mean-field model of the forces exchanged between motors and filaments. We find that a spatial dependence of the motor stepping rate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 T. B. Liverpool , M. Cristina Marchetti

There is growing interest in multi-species active matter systems with reciprocal and non-reciprocal interactions. While such interactions have been explored in continuous symmetry models, less is known about multi-species discrete-symmetry…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-01 Matthieu Mangeat , Swarnajit Chatterjee , Jae Dong Noh , Heiko Rieger

Inspired by dense contractile tissues, where cells are subject to periodic deformation, we formulate and study a generic hydrodynamic theory of pulsating active liquids. Combining mechanical and phenomenological arguments, we postulate that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-25 Tirthankar Banerjee , Thibault Desaleux , Jonas Ranft , Étienne Fodor

A hallmark in natural systems, self-organization often stems from very simple interaction rules between individual agents. While single-species self-propelled particle (SPP) systems are well understood, the behavior of binary mixtures with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-05 Eloise Lardet , Letian Chen , Thibault Bertrand