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An important question in the field of active matter is whether or not it is possible to predict the phase behavior of these systems. Here, we study the phase coexistence of binary mixtures of torque-free active Brownian particles, for both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-03 Berend van der Meer , Vasileios Prymidis , Marjolein Dijkstra , Laura Filion

The concept of effective depletion forces between two fixed big colloidal particles in a bath of small particles is generalized to a non-equilibrium situation where the bath of small Brownian particles is flowing around the big particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Dzubiella , H. Lowen , C. N. Likos

We study the statistical properties of many Brownian particles under the We study the statistical properties of many Brownian particles under the influence of both a spatially homogeneous driving force and a periodic potential with period…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-02 Takenobu Nakamura , Shin-ichi Sasa

Evidence suggests that the transport rate of a passive particle at long timescales is enhanced due to interactions with the surrounding active ones in a size- and composition-dependent manner. Using a system of particles with different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-14 Efe Ilker , Michele Castellana , Jean-François Joanny

Recently, many interesting features of the hydrodynamically coupled motions of the Brownian particles in a viscous fluid have been reported which are impossible for the uncoupled motions of the similar particles. However, it is expected…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-17 Shuvojit Paul

Using confocal microscopy, we measure the packing geometry and interdroplet forces as a function of the osmotic pressure in a 3D emulsion system. We find that the nonlinear elastic response of the pressure with density is not a result of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Ivane Jorjadze , Lea-Laetitia Pontani , Jasna Brujic

Our interest goes to the collisional statistics in an arbitrary interacting fluid. We show that even in the low density limit and contrary to naive expectation, the number of collisions experienced by a tagged particle in a given time does…

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We show that Brownian motion is spatially not symmetric for mesoscopic particles embedded in a fluid if the particle is not in thermal equilibrium and its shape is not spherical. In view of applications on molecular motors in biological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Susan Sporer , Christian Goll , Klaus Mecke

Using the volume averaging technique of Jackson (1997), we derive a set of two-fluid equations that describe the dynamics of a mono-disperse non-Brownian colloidal suspension in the semi-dilute regime. The equations are tensorial and can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-06 Dalton J. E. Harvie

Electrostatic forces between small groups of colloidal particles are measured using blinking optical tweezers. When the electrostatic screening length is significantly larger than the particle radius, forces are found to be non-pairwise…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Jason W. Merrill , Sunil K. Sainis , Eric R. Dufresne

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with long-range correlations in time; it has been shown to be a useful model of anomalous diffusion. Here, we investigate the effects of mutual interactions in an ensemble of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-15 Jonathan House , Rashad Bakhshizada , Skirmantas Janušonis , Ralf Metzler , Thomas Vojta

Rectification of interacting Brownian particles is investigated in a two-dimensional asymmetric channel in the presence of an external periodic driving force. The periodic driving force can break the thermodynamic equilibrium and induces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-19 Narender Khatri , P. S. Burada

We present a theory of effective electrostatic interactions in polydisperse suspensions of charged macroions, generalizing to mixtures a theory previously developed for monodisperse suspensions. Combining linear response theory with a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-20 Jun Kyung Chung , Alan R. Denton

We computationally study suspensions of slow and fast active Brownian particles that have undergone motility induced phase separation and are at steady state. Such mixtures, of varying non-zero activity, remain largely unexplored even…

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Large-scale collective behavior in suspensions of many particles can be understood from the balance of statistical forces emerging beyond the direct microscopic particle interactions. Here we review some aspects of the collective forces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-19 Thomas Speck

We perform systematic simulation experiments on model systems with soft-sphere repulsive interactions to test the predicted dynamic equivalence between soft-sphere liquids with similar static structure. For this we compare the simulated…

Newton's third law, actio = reactio, is a foundational statement of classical mechanics. However, in natural and living systems, this law appears to be routinely violated for constituents interacting in a nonequilibrium environment. Here,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-30 Yu-Jen Chiu , Ahmad K. Omar

Nonintersecting motion of Brownian particles in one dimension is studied. The system is constructed as the diffusion scaling limit of Fisher's vicious random walk. N particles start from the origin at time t=0 and then undergo mutually…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Taro Nagao , Makoto Katori , Hideki Tanemura

A mode-coupling theory for the motion of a strongly forced probe particle in a dense colloidal suspension is presented. Starting point is the Smoluchowski equation for $N$ bath and a single probe particle. The probe performs Brownian motion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Igor Gazuz , Matthias Fuchs