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This study presents a comprehensive framework for constitutive modeling of a frame-invariant fractional-order approach to nonlocal thermoelasticity in solids. For this purpose, thermodynamic and mechanical balance laws are derived for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Sai Sidhardh , Sansit Patnaik , Fabio Semperlotti

While the existence of polar ordered states in active systems is well established, the dynamics of the self-assembly processes are still elusive. We study a lattice gas model of self-propelled elongated particles interacting through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-11 Christoph. A. Weber , Volker Schaller , Andreas R. Bausch , Erwin Frey

In this work, we study the stationary behavior of an assembly of independent chiral active particles under confinement by employing an extension of the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model. The chirality modeled by means of an effective torque…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-14 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

The emergence of hydrodynamic bend instabilities in ordered suspensions of active particles is widely observed across diverse living and synthetic systems, and is considered to be governed by dipolar active stresses generated by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-09 Sameer Kumar , Niels de Graaf Sousa , Amin Doostmohammadi

Waves and oscillations are commonly observed in the dynamics of self-driven agents such as pedestrians or vehicles. Interestingly, many factors may perturb the stability of space homogeneous streaming, leading to the spontaneous formation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-10 Martin Friesen , Hanno Gottschalk , Barbara Rüdiger , Antoine Tordeux

We present a derivation of a recently proposed theory for the time dependence of density fluctuations in stationary states of strongly interacting, athermal, self-propelled particles. The derivation consists of two steps. First, we start…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-13 Grzegorz Szamel

We report the experimental observation of a square crystalline phase in a vibrated binary mixture of spherical grains. This structure spontaneously forms from a disordered state, consistently with predictions obtained in an equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-09 A. Plati , R. Maire , F. Boulogne , F. Restagno , F. Smallenburg , G. Foffi

The steady state and phase ordering kinetics in a pure active Borwnian particle system are studied in recent years. In binary mixture of active and passive Brownian particles passive particles are used as probe to understand the properties…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-23 Shambhavi Dikshit , Shradha Mishra

Recently, we proposed a self-propelled particle model with competing alignment interactions: nearby particles tend to align their velocities whereas they anti-align their direction of motion with particles which are further away [R.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Großmann , Pawel Romanczuk , Markus Bär , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Recently, the Brownian dynamics of self-propelled (active) rod-like particles was explored to model the motion of colloidal microswimmers, catalytically-driven nanorods, and bacteria. Here, we generalize this description to biaxial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

One of the intrinsic characteristics of far-from-equilibrium systems is the nonrelaxational nature of the system dynamics, which leads to novel properties that cannot be understood and described by conventional pathways based on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-25 Zhi-Feng Huang , Andreas M. Menzel , Hartmut Löwen

The relaxation dynamics of a model fluid of platelike colloidal particles is investigated by means of a phenomenological dynamic density functional theory. The model fluid approximates the particles within the Zwanzig model of restricted…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-14 Markus Bier , Rene van Roij

We have proposed a method for the dynamic simulation of a collection of self-propelled particles in a viscous Newtonian fluid. We restrict attention to particles whose size and velocity are small enough that the fluid motion is in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Vishwajeet Mehandia , Prabhu R. Nott

Regulation to a well-defined target state is a fundamental requirement for achieving reliable functionality in living systems and maintaining specific non-equilibrium states. The control of certain properties and functionalities of systems…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-17 Lisa Rohde , Desmond J. Quinn , Diptabrata Paul , Frank Cichos

We develop a reduced model for the slow unsteady dynamics of an isotropic chemically active particle near the threshold for spontaneous motion. Building on the steady theory developed in part I of this series, we match a weakly nonlinear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-24 Gunnar G. Peng , Ory Schnitzer

Inspired by one--dimensional light--particle systems, the dynamics of a non-Hamiltonian system with long--range forces is investigated. While the molecular dynamics does not reach an equilibrium state, it may be approximated in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-23 Romain Bachelard , Nicola Piovella , Shamik Gupta

Inertial effects affecting both the translational and rotational dynamics are inherent to a broad range of active systems at the macroscopic scale. Thus, there is a pivotal need for proper models in the framework of active matter to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-10 Alexander R. Sprenger , Lorenzo Caprini , Hartmut Löwen , René Wittmann

Active suspensions composed of self-propelled colloidal particles are considered. Their propulsion of is generated by chemical reactions occurring by heterogeneous catalysis and diffusiophoresis coupling the concentration gradients of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-17 Pierre Gaspard

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

Dynamics of complex systems is often hierarchically organized on different time scales. To understand the physics of such hierarchy, here Brownian motion of a particle moving through a fluctuating medium with slowly varying temperature is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-14 Sumiyoshi Abe