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Non-equilibrium self-organized patterns formed by particles interacting through competing range interaction are driven over a substrate by an external force. We show that, with increasing driving force, the pre-existed static patterns…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-20 H. J. Zhao , V. R. Misko , F. M. Peeters

Many microorganisms use chemical `signaling' - a quintessential self-organizing strategy in non-equilibrium - that can induce spontaneous aggregation and coordination in behavior. Using synthetic signaling as a design principle, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-23 Pathma Eswaran , Shradha Mishra

We propose an extension to the ISM of flocking and swarming. The model has been introduced to explain certain dynamic features of swarming (second sound, a lower than expected dynamic critical exponent) while preserving the mechanism for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-30 Sebastián Carruitero , Alejo Costa Duran , Giulia Pisegna , Mauricio B. Sturla , Tomás S. Grigera

We investigate magnetic active matter in confined geometries using both experiments with magnetic toy robots Hexbugs and simulations of elongated magnetic active Brownian particles in circular domains. Standard active particles tend to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-27 Marco Musacchio , Markus Felber , Matteo Paoluzzi , Andrea Gnoli , Andrea Puglisi , Luca Angelani

Fluctuations play a central role in many fields of physics, from quantum electrodynamics to statistical mechanics. In active matter physics, most models focus on thermal fluctuations due to a surrounding solvent. An alternative but much…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-17 Sebastian Fehlinger , Kai Cui , Arooj Sajjad , Heinz Koeppl , Benno Liebchen

We investigate a trapping mechanism for passive Brownian particles based on mixtures with self-propelled dipolar colloids. Active dipoles, whose magnetic moment is oriented perpendicularly to their propulsion direction, spontaneously form…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-18 Arnaud Compagnie , Nicolas Vandewalle , Eric Opsomer

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) function as self-driving agents that display non-equilibrium behavior through their pairwise interactions which lead to phase separation and vortex patterns in both soft matter and living systems. A…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 Sadra Saremi , Amirhossein Ahmadkhan Kordbacheh

It seems that a stochastic system must be a nonlinear one to observe the phenomenon, noise induced transition. But in the present paper, we have demonstrated that the phenomenon may be observed even in a linear stochastic process where both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-04 Shrabani Mondal , L. R. Rahul Biswas , Mousumi Biswas , Bidhan Chandra Bag

As a rough model for the collective motions of cells and organisms we develop here the statistical mechanics of swarms of self-propelled particles. Our approach is closely related to the recently developed theory of active Brownian motion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner Ebeling , Udo Erdmann

Swimmers and self-propelled particles are physical models for the collective behaviour and motility of a wide variety of living systems, such as bacteria colonies, bird flocks and fish schools. Such artificial active materials are amenable…

A collection of rings made of active Brownian particles (ABPs) for different packing fractions and activities is investigated using computer simulations. We show that active rings display an emergent dynamic clustering instead of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-27 Ligesh Theeyancheri , Subhasish Chaki , Tapomoy Bhattacharjee , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

For a system of Brownian particles interacting via a soft exponential potential we investigate the interaction between equilibrium crystallization and spatially varying shear flow. For thermodynamic state points within the liquid part of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-07 Alberto Scacchi , Joseph M. Brader

Off-lattice active Brownian particles form clusters and undergo phase separation even in the absence of attractions or velocity-alignment mechanisms. Arguments that explain this phenomenon appeal only to the ability of particles to move…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-28 Stephen Whitelam , Katherine Klymko , Dibyendu Mandal

In the last 20 years, active matter has been a very successful research field, bridging the fundamental physics of nonequilibrium thermodynamics with applications in robotics, biology, and medicine. This field deals with active particles,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-12 Angelo Barona Balda , Aykut Argun , Agnese Callegari , Giovanni Volpe

We investigate the collective dynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) subjected to a steady two-dimensional four-roll-mill flow using numerical simulations. By varying the packing fraction ($\phi$), we uncover a novel flow-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Soni D. Prajapati , Kusum Seervi , Akshay Bhatnagar , Anupam Gupta

The aim of this paper is to discuss the mathematical modeling of Brownian active particle systems, a recently popular paradigmatic system for self-propelled particles. We present four microscopic models with different types of repulsive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-31 M. Bruna , M. Burger , A. Esposito , S. M. Schulz

In this paper, we report a Brownian dynamics simulation of the mobility-induced phase separation which occurs in a two-dimensional binary mixture of active soft Brownian particles, whose interactions are modeled by non-additive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-23 D. Jiménez-Flores , A. Rodríguez-Rivas , J. M. Romero-Enrique

Active and diffusive motion in Brownian particles are regularly observed in fluidic environments, albeit at different time scales. Here, we experimentally study the dynamics of highly asymmetric microclusters trapped in air employing…

Numerical algorithms are proposed for simulating the Brownian dynamics of charged particles in an external magnetic field, taking into account the Brownian motion of charged particles, damping effect and the effect of magnetic field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-05-21 L. J. Hou , Z. L. Mišković , A. Piel , P. K. Shukla

Driven suspensions, where energy is input at a particle scale, are a framework for understanding general principles of out-of-equilibrium organization. A large number of simple interacting units can give rise to non-trivial structure and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-23 Pamud Akalanka Bethmage , Ryker Fish , Brennan Sprinkle , Michelle M. Driscoll