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We show that a rich variety of dynamic phases can be realized for mono- and bidisperse mixtures of interacting colloids under the influence of a symmetric flashing periodic substrate. With the addition of dc or ac drives, phase locking,…

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We investigate the simple one-dimensional driven model, the totally asymmetric exclusion process, coupled to mutually interactive Langmuir kinetics. This model is motivated by recent studies on clustering of motor proteins on microtubules.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 H. D. Vuijk , R. Rens , M. Vahabi , F. C. MacKintosh , A. Sharma

In this work we provide a comprehensive review of theoretical and experimental studies of the properties of polarons formed by mobile impurities strongly interacting with quantum many-body systems. We present a unified perspective on the…

The transport properties of colloidal particles in active liquids have been studied extensively. It has led to a deeper understanding of the interactions between passive and active particles. However, the phase behavior of colloidal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-30 Pragya Kushwaha , Vivek Semwal , Sayan Maity , Shraddha Mishra , Vijayakumar Chikkadi

Active colloids belong to a class of non-equilibrium systems where energy uptake, conversion and dissipation occurs at the level of individual colloidal particles, which can lead to particles self-propelled motion and surprising collective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-14 T. C. Rebocho , M. Tasinkevych , C. S. Dias

The influence of a fluid-fluid interface on self-phoresis of chemically active, axially symmetric, spherical colloids is analyzed. Distinct from the studies of self-phoresis for colloids trapped at fluid interfaces or in the vicinity of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-22 P. Malgaretti , M. N. Popescu , S. Dietrich

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

Collective motion in nonequilibrium steady state suspensions of self-propelled Janus motors driven by chemical reactions can arise due to interactions coming from direct intermolecular forces, hydrodynamic flow effects, or chemotactic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-10 Mu-Jie Huang , Jeremy Schofield , Raymond Kapral

We consider phoretic self-propulsion of a chemically active colloid where solute is consumed at both the colloid boundary and within the bulk solution. Assuming first-order kinetics, the dimensionless transport problem is governed by the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-10 Rodolfo Brandão , David Saintillan , Ehud Yariv

Active drops emit/absorb chemical solutes, whose concentration gradients cause interfacial flows driving their own transport and the propulsion of the droplet. Such non-linear coupling enables active drops to achieve directed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-01 Nikhil Desai , Sebastien Michelin

Achieving control over the directionality of active colloids is essential for their use in practical applications such as cargo carriers in microfluidic devices. So far, guidance of spherical Janus colloids was mainly realized using…

We study the behaviour of catalytically active droplets in multi-component conserved mixtures affected by noise. Working in the thin interface limit, we analytically determine the state diagram of the system, characterized by multiple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-01 Jacopo Romano , Martin Kjøllesdal Johnsrud , Benoît Mahault , Ramin Golestanian

Autonomous and driven transport in chiral active fluids have been shown to exhibit features that cannot be accommodated within the classical formulation of fluid mechanics, due to the role of odd viscosity. We generalize the theory of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-24 Michalis Chatzittofi , Yuto Hosaka , Andrej Vilfan , Ramin Golestanian

We study dynamics of clustering in systems containing active particles that are immersed in an explicit solvent. For this purpose we have adopted a hybrid simulation method, consisting of molecular dynamics and multi-particle collision…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-01 Arabinda Bera , Soudamini Sahoo , Snigdha Thakur , Subir K. Das

We review recent work on active colloids or swimmers, such as self-propelled microorganisms, phoretic colloidal particles, and artificial micro-robotic systems, moving in fluid-like environments. These environments can be water-like and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Alison E. Patteson , Arvind Gopinath , Paulo E. Arratia

Colloidal particles moving in a fluid interact via the induced velocity field. The collective dynamic state for a class of actively forced colloids, driven by harmonic potentials via a rule that couples forces to configurations, to perform…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-11 Loïc Damet , Giovanni M. Cicuta , Jurij Kotar , Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino , Pietro Cicuta

We investigate the evolution of a system of colloidal particles, trapped at a fluid interface and interacting via capillary attraction, as function of the range of the capillary interaction and temperature. We address the collapse of an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-13 J. Bleibel , A. Dominguez , M. Oettel , S. Dietrich

In colloidal systems, Brownian motion emerges from the massive separation of time and length scales associated to characteristic dynamics of the solute and solvent constituents. This separation of scales produces several temporal regimes in…

Controlled assembly of active-passive colloidal mixtures offers a route to reconfigurable microscale machines, but their self-assembly pathways remain poorly understood. We study the directed assembly of metallo-dielectric Janus particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 Donggang Cao , Sankha Shuvra Das , Gilad Yossifon

Collective behavior of self-propelled particles is observed on a microscale for swimmers such as sperm and bacteria as well as for protein filaments in motility assays. The properties of such systems depend both on their dimensionality and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-07 Masoud Abkenar , Kristian Marx , Thorsten Auth , Gerhard Gompper