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We investigate how the competing presence of a nonuniform motility landscape and an external confining field affects the properties of active particles. We employ the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP) model with a periodic swim…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-02 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen

The emergent dynamics in phase-separated mixtures of isometric active and passive Brownian particles is studied numerically in two dimensions. A novel steady-state of well-defined traveling fronts is observed, where the interface between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-03 Adam Wysocki , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

The formation of dynamical patterns is one of the most striking features of nonequilibrium physical systems. Recent work has shown that such patterns arise generically from forces that violate Newton's third law, known as nonreciprocal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-26 James Mason , Robert L. Jack , Maria Bruna

We analyze a dilute suspension of active particles confined between walls and subjected to fields that can modulate particle speed as well as orientation. Generally, the particle distribution is different in the bulk compared to near the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-23 Vaseem A. Shaik , Zhiwei Peng , John F. Brady , Gwynn J. Elfring

We explore phase separation and kinetic arrest in a model active colloidal system consisting of self-propelled, hard-core particles with nonconvex shapes. The passive limit of the model, namely cross-shaped particles on a square lattice,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-11 Carl Merrigan , Kabir Ramola , Rakesh Chatterjee , Nimrod Segall , Yair Shokef , Bulbul Chakraborty

We investigate the large time behavior of $N$ particles restricted to a smooth closed curve in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and subject to a gradient flow with respect to Euclidean hyper-singular repulsive Riesz $s$-energy with $s>1.$ We show that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Douglas Hardin , Edward B. Saff , Ruiwen Shu , Eitan Tadmor

We investigate the turbulent dynamics of a two-dimensional active nematic liquid crystal con- strained on a curved surface. Using a combination of hydrodynamic and particle-based simulations, we demonstrate that the fundamental structural…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-01 D. J. G. Pearce , Perry W. Ellis , Alberto Fernandez-Nieves , L. Giomi

The diffusion of chiral active Brownian particles in three-dimensional space is studied analytically, by consideration of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation for the probability density of finding a particle at position…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Francisco J. Sevilla

We introduce a model for active transport on inhomogeneous networks embedded in a diffusive environment and investigate the formation of particle clusters. In the presence of a hard-core interaction, cluster sizes exhibit an algebraically…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Philip Greulich , Ludger Santen

The plasma turbulence as is well known plays crucial role in the processes of plasma dynamics and transport phenomena. It affects both macroscopic plasma behaviour and distribution of particles, and besides suprathermal component of…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 A. Gurevich , A. Lukyanov , K. Zybin

Intrinsic discrete nature in thermodynamic properties of Fermi gases appears under strongly confined and degenerate conditions. For a rectangular confinement domain, thermodynamic properties of an ideal Fermi gas are expressed in their…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-02-24 Alhun Aydin , Altug Sisman

This is the second in the series of papers on transport phenomena along random rough surfaces. We apply our simple general approach\cite{r1} to transport in very narrow channels, when the particles wavelength is comparable to the width of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Meyerovich , S. Stepaniants

We address the problem of sensing the curvature of a manifold by performing measurements on a particle constrained to the manifold itself. In particular, we consider situations where the dynamics of the particle is quantum mechanical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Daniele Bonalda , Luigi Seveso , Matteo G. A. Paris

We study the effect of turbulence on a sedimenting layer of particles by means of direct numerical simulations. A Lagrangian model in which particles are considered as tracers with an additional downward settling velocity is integrated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-08 Alessandro Sozza , Gabor Drotos , Emilio Hernández-García , Cristóbal López

The traveling waves for surface diffusion of plane curves are studied. We consider an evolving plane curve with two endpoints, which can move freely on the x-axis with generating constant contact angles. For the evolution of this plane…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Takashi Kagaya , Yoshihito Kohsaka

Discrete simulation methods are efficient tools to investigate the complex behaviors of complex fluids made of either dry granular materials or dilute suspensions. By contrast, materials made of soft and/or concentrated units (emulsions,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-12-18 Pierre Rognon , Cyprien Gay

Active systems are inherently out of equilibrium, as they collect energy from their surroundings and transform it into directed motion. A recent theoretical study suggests that binary mixtures of active particles with distinct effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-22 Sunita Kumari , Andre S. Nunes , Nuno A. M. Araujo , Margarida Telo da Gama

We perform experiments with a granular system that consists of a collection of identical hollow spheres (ping-pong balls). Particles rest on a horizontal metallic grid and are confined within a circular region. Fluidization is achieved by…

Mobile microscopic bodies, such as motile cells, can be modelled phenomenologically as ``active particles'' which can move against external forces by depleting an internal energy depot. The microscopic mechanisms underlying such ``active''…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-01 Diego Marcel Fieguth

We propose a model for the motion of a single active particle in a heterogeneous environment where the heterogeneity may arise due to the crowding, conformational fluctuations and/or slow rearrangement of the surroundings. Describing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-04 Koushik Goswami , Rajarshi Chakrabarti