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Emergent non-reciprocal interactions violating Newton's third law are widespread in out-of-equilibrium systems. Phase separating mixtures with such interactions exhibit travelling states with no equilibrium counterpart. Using extensive…

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The pair-distribution function, which provides information about correlations in a system of interacting particles, is one of the key objects of theoretical soft matter physics. In particular, it allows for microscopic insights into the…

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We consider a one-dimensional gas of $N$ independent Brownian particles subject to simultaneous stochastic resetting, with inter-reset times drawn from a general waiting-time distribution $\psi(\tau)$. This includes the well-known…

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The friction and diffusion coefficients of rigid spherical colloidal particles dissolved in a fluid are determined from velocity and force autocorrelation functions by mesoscale hydrodynamic simulations. Colloids with both slip and no-slip…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-10 Mario Theers , Elmar Westphal , Gerhard Gompper , Roland G. Winkler

Binary mixtures of hard-spheres with different diameters and square-well attraction between different particles are studied by theory and Monte Carlo simulations. In our mesoscopic theory, local fluctuations of the volume fraction of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-04 O. Patsahan , A. Meyra , A. Ciach

Spatiotemporal disorder has been recently associated to the occurrence of anomalous nonergodic diffusion of molecular components in biological systems, but the underlying microscopic mechanism is still unclear. We introduce a model in which…

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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

A recent first-principles approach to the non-linear rheology of dense colloidal suspensions is evaluated and compared to simulation results of sheared systems close to their glass transitions. The predicted scenario of a universal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthias Fuchs , Michael E. Cates

Nonreciprocal interactions violating Newton's third law are common in a plethora of nonequilibrium situations ranging from predator-prey systems to the swarming of birds and effective colloidal interactions under flow. While many recent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-07 Zhi-Feng Huang , Michael te Vrugt , Jonas Mayer Martins , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

The influence of an external field acting differently on the two constituents of a binary colloidal mixture performing Brownian dynamics is investigated by computer simulations and a simple theory. In our model, one half of the particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Dzubiella , H. Loewen

A two-dimensional system of particles with tunable repulsive interactions is experimentally investigated. Soft ferromagnetic particles are placed on a vibrating rough plate and vertically confined, so that they perform a horizontal Brownian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-19 Simon Merminod , Michaël Berhanu , Eric Falcon

We consider the properties of a one dimensional fluid of brownian inertial hard-core particles, whose microscopic dynamics is partially damped by a heat-bath. Direct interactions among the particles are represented as binary, instantaneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marini Bettolo Marconi Umberto , Tarazona Pedro

Interactions between active particles may be non-reciprocal, breaking action-reaction symmetry and leading to novel physics not observed in equilibrium systems. The non-reciprocalCahn-Hilliard (NRCH) model is a phenomenological model that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-25 Martin Kjøllesdal Johnsrud , Ramin Golestanian

Non-reciprocal interactions are present in many systems out of equilibrium. The rate of entropy production is a measure that quantifies the time irreversibility of a system, and thus how far it is from equilibrium. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-28 Ziluo Zhang , Rosalba Garcia-Millan

Understanding microstructure in terms of closed-form expressions is an open challenge in nonequilibrium statistical physics. We propose a simple and generic method that combines particle-resolved simulations, deep neural networks and…

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We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of spherical active Brownian particles in three spatial dimensions that interact via a pair potential. The investigation is based on a predictive local field theory that is derived by a rigorous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-19 Jens Bickmann , Raphael Wittkowski

Using the molecular dynamics method, we examine a discrete deterministic model for the motion of spherical particles in three-dimensional space. The model takes into account multiparticle collisions in arbitrary forms. Using fractional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacek S. Leszczynski

Hard spheres in Newtonian fluids serve as paradigms for Non-Newtonian materials phenomena exhibited by colloidal suspensions. A recent experimental study (Cheng et al. 2011 Science, 333, 1276) showed that upon application of shear to such a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-07 Xinliang Xu , Stuart A Rice , Aaron R Dinner

Starting from a microscopic model of self-propelled hard spheres we use tools of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and the kinetic theory of hard spheres to derive a Smoluchowski equation for interacting Active Brownian particles. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Benjamin Hancock , Aparna Baskaran

Non-reciprocal systems exhibit diverse dynamical phases whose character depends on the type and degree of non-reciprocity. In this study, we theoretically investigate dynamical structures in a mixture of non-reciprocally aligning polar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-20 Kim L. Kreienkamp , Sabine H. L. Klapp