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We study quasi two-dimensional, monodisperse systems of active Brownian particles (ABPs) for a range of activities, stiffnesses, and densities. We develop a microscopic, analytical method for predicting the dense phase structure formed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-24 Nicholas Lauersdorf , Thomas Kolb , Moslem Moradi , Ehssan Nazockdast , Daphne Klotsa

The structural and dynamical properties of suspensions of self-propelled Brownian particles of spherical shape are investigated in three spatial dimensions. Our simulations reveal a phase separation into a dilute and a dense phase, above a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-12 Adam Wysocki , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

We describe a two-dimensional model for active particles whose self-propulsion speed is not fixed, but varies in time, and whose motion is subject to both translational and rotational diffusion. In the conventional treatment of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Tayeb Jamali

We present a promising mode coupling theory study for the relaxation and glassy dynamics of a system of strongly interacting self-propelled particles, wherein the self-propulsion force is described by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck colored noise and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-28 Mengkai Feng , Zhonghuai Hou

We develop a new extended version of the mode-coupling theory (MCT) for glass transition, which incorporates activated hopping processes via the dynamical theory originally formulated to describe diffusion-jump processes in crystals. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Song-Ho Chong

Suspensions of Active Brownian Particles (ABP) undergo motility induced phase separation (MIPS) over a wide range of mean density and activity strength [1], even in the absence of an explicit attraction. Negative values of the mechanical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-07 Enrique Chacon , Francisco Alarcon , Jorge Ramirez , Pedro Tarazona , Chantal Valeriani

As a result of the competition between self-propulsion and excluded volume interactions, purely repulsive self-propelled spherical particles undergo a motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). We carry out a systematic computational study,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-08 Demian Levis , Joan Codina , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

The pressure of suspensions of self-propelled objects is studied theoretically and by simulation of spherical active Brownian particles (ABP). We show that for certain geometries, the mechanical pressure as force/area of a confined systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-03 Roland G. Winkler , Adam Wysocki , Gerhard Gompper

The Active Brownian Particle (ABP) model exemplifies a wide class of active matter particles. In this work, we demonstrate how this model can be cast into a field theory in both two and three dimensions. Our aim is manifold: we wish both to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-26 Ziluo Zhang , Lili Fehértói-Nagy , Maria Polackova , Gunnar Pruessner

We analyze the slow, glassy structural relaxation as measured through collective and tagged-particle density correlation functions obtained from Brownian dynamics simulations for a polydisperse system of quasi-hard spheres in the framework…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-18 F. Weysser , A. M. Puertas , M. Fuchs , Th. Voigtmann

We solved the mode-coupling equations for the Kob-Andersen binary mixture using the structure factors calculated from Brownian dynamics simulations of the same system. We found, as was previously observed, that the mode-coupling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Elijah Flenner , Grzegorz Szamel

Systems comprised of self-steering active Brownian particles are studied via simulations for a minimal cognitive flocking model. The dynamics of the active Brownian particles is extended by an orientational response with limited…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Rajendra Singh Negi , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

Recently, there has been much interest in activity-induced phase separations in concentrated suspensions of "active Brownian particles" (ABPs), self-propelled spherical particles whose direction of motion relaxes through thermal rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-13 Joakim Stenhammar , Davide Marenduzzo , Rosalind J. Allen , Michael E. Cates

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of active matter using a two-dimensional active Brownian particles model. In these systems, self-propelled particles undergo motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), spontaneously segregating into…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-26 Toranosuke Umemura , Issei Sakai , Takuma Akimoto

Combining experiments on active colloids, whose propulsion velocity can be controlled via a feedback loop, and theory of active Brownian motion, we explore the dynamics of an overdamped active particle with a motility that depends…

In the present work, with the intent of exploring the out-of-equilibrium polymerization of active patchy particles in linear chains, we study a suspension of active bivalent Brownian particles (ABBPs). At all studied temperatures and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-19 Caterina Landi , John Russo , Francesco Sciortino , Chantal Valeriani

Active matter concerns the self-organization of energy consuming elements such as motile bacteria or self-propelled colloids. A canonical example is an active Brownian particle (ABP) that moves at constant speed while its direction of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-21 Paul C Bressloff

In the last decade, the study of pressure in active matter has attracted growing attention due to its fundamental relevance to nonequilibrium statistical physics. Active matter systems are composed of particles that consume energy to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-14 Guo Yu , Ruiyao Li , Fukang Li , Jiayu Zhang , Xiyue Li , Zequ Chen , Joscha Mecke , Yongxiang Gao

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) are termed out to be a successful way of modeling the moving microorganism on the substrate. In recent studies, it is shown that such organisms can sense the characteristics of the substrate. Motivated by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-31 Pawan Kumar Mishra , Ajeya Krishna , Shradha Mishra

The transport of active particles may occur in complex environments, in which it emerges from the interplay between the mobility of the active components and the quenched disorder of the environment. Here we explore structural and dynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-31 Fergus J. Moore , John Russo Tanniemola B. Liverpool , C. Patrick Royall