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We present a simple discrete model for the non-linear spatial interaction of different kinds of ``subpopulations'' composed of identical moving entities like particles, bacteria, individuals, etc. The model allows to mimic a variety of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing , Tadeusz Platkowski

Dry active matter systems are well-known to exhibit Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). However, in wet active systems, attractive hydrodynamic interactions mediated by active particles stalled at a boundary can introduce…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-01 Kingshuk Panja , Rajesh Singh

We introduce a stochastic agent-based model for the flocking dynamics of self-propelled particles that exhibit velocity-alignment interactions with neighbours within their field of view. The stochasticity in the dynamics of the model arises…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Trilochan Bagarti , Shakti N. Menon

Biological and robotic systems often operate in confined environments where material must be gathered without centralized control. Inspired by the effective collection strategies of aquatic worms (Lumbriculus variegatus and Tubifex…

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Non-equilibrium clustering and percolation are investigated in an archetypal model of two-dimensional active matter using dynamic simulations of self-propelled Brownian repulsive particles. We concentrate on the single-phase region up to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-09 David Evans , José Martín-Roca , Nathan J. Harmer , Chantal Valeriani , Mark A. Miller

Field control provides a practical route to programmable active matter, yet how weak fields modify non-equilibrium coexistence and interfaces remains unclear. To address this, we study a minimal flocking model of active Potts particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-30 Mintu Karmakar , Matthieu Mangeat , Swarnajit Chatterjee , Heiko Rieger , Raja Paul

We investigate the phase behavior and kinetics of a monodisperse mixture of active (\textit{i.e.}, self-propelled) and passive isometric Brownian particles through Brownian dynamics simulations and theory. As in a purely active system,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-08 Joakim Stenhammar , Raphael Wittkowski , Davide Marenduzzo , Michael E. Cates

Self-organization is the generation of order out of local interactions in non-equilibrium [1]. It is deeply connected to all fields of science from physics, chemistry to biology where functional living structures self-assemble[2] and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-24 Utsab Khadka , Viktor Holubec , Haw Yang , Frank Cichos

The nonequilibrium activity taking place in a living cell can be monitored with a tracer embedded in the medium. While microrheology experiments based on optical manipulation of such probes have become increasingly standard, we put forward…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-31 Étienne Fodor , Kiyoshi Kanazawa , Hisao Hayakawa , Paolo Visco , Frédéric van Wijland

We derive equations of motion for the mean-squared displacement (MSD) of an active Brownian particle (ABP) in a crowded environment modeled by a dense system of passive Brownian particles, and of a passive tracer particle in a dense…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-27 Julian Reichert , Thomas Voigtmann

Active particles have become a subject of intense interest across several disciplines from animal behavior to granular physics. Usually the models of such particles contain an explicit internal driving. Here we propose a model with implicit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 Reinaldo García-García , Pierre Collet , Lev Truskinovsky

We study interacting systems of linear Brownian motions whose drift vector at every time point is determined by the relative ranks of the coordinate processes at that time. Our main objective has been to study the long range behavior of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-01-22 Soumik Pal , Jim Pitman

Transport phenomena in complex and dynamic microscopic environments are fundamentally shaped by hydrodynamic interactions. In particular, microparticle transport in porous media is governed by the delicate interplay between…

We investigate theoretically the collective dynamics of soft active particles living in a viscous fluid. We focus on a minimal model for active but non-motile particles consisting of $N>1$ elastic dimers deformed by active stresses and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-09 Denis Bartolo , Eric Lauga

Spin fluctuations have a substantial influence on the electron and lattice behaviors in magnetic materials, which, however, is difficult to be tracked properly by prevalent first-principles methods. We propose a versatile self-adaptive…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-14 Zefeng Cai , Ke Wang , Yong Xu , Su-Huai Wei , Ben Xu

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

Brownian systems are characterized by spatiotemporal disorder, which arises from the erratic motion of particles driven by thermal fluctuations. When light interacts with such systems, it typically produces unpolarized and uncorrelated…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-07 Xiao Zhang , Peiyang Chen , Mei Li , Yuzhi Shi , Erez Hasman , Bo Wang , Xianfeng Chen

The clogging behavior of a symmetric binary mixture of particles that are driven in opposite directions through constrictions is explored by Brownian dynamics simulations and theory. A dynamical state with a spontaneously broken symmetry…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-28 Tobias Glanz , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

Active work measures how far the local self-forcing of active particles translates into real motion. Using Population Monte Carlo methods, we investigate large deviations in the active work for repulsive active Brownian disks. Minimizing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-12 Takahiro Nemoto , Étienne Fodor , Michael E. Cates , Robert L. Jack , Julien Tailleur

Systems containing active components are intrinsically out of equilibrium, while binary mixtures reach their equilibrium configuration when complete phase separation is achieved. Active particles are found to stabilise non-equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-11 Javier Diaz , Ignacio Pagonabarraga