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We study a minimal cognitive flocking model, which assumes that the moving entities navigate using exclusively the available instantaneous visual information. The model consists of active particles, with no memory, that interact by a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Lucas Barberis , Fernando Peruani

Ordered, collective motions commonly arise spontaneously in systems of many interacting, active units, ranging from cellular tissues and bacterial colonies to self-propelled colloids and animal flocks. Active phases are especially rich when…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-15 Madhuvanthi Guruprasad Athani , Daniel A. Beller

We generalize the Green-Kubo approach, previously applied to bulk systems of spherically symmetric active particles [J. Chem. Phys. 145, 161101 (2016)], to include spatially inhomogeneous activity. The method is applied to predict the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-20 Abhinav Sharma , Joseph Brader

Particles kicked by external forces to produce mobility distinct from thermal diffusion are an iconic feature of the active matter problem. Here, we map this onto a minimal model for experiment and theory covering the wide time and length…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-21 Jin Tae Park , Govind Paneru , Chulan Kwon , Steve Granick , Hyuk Kyu Pak

While active matter physics has traditionally focused on particles with overdamped dynamics, recent years have seen an increase of experimental and theoretical work on active systems with inertia. This also leads to an increased need for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-13 Michael te Vrugt

Active matter systems encompass both natural and artificially created systems consisting of numerous active particles. These particles actively consume energy to propel themselves or exert mechanical forces, leading to intricate behaviors…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mintu Karmakar

We study a model of diffusive oscillators whose internal states are subject to a periodic drive. These models are inspired by the dynamics of deformable particles with pulsating sizes, where repulsion leads to arrest the internal pulsation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-15 Alessandro Manacorda , Étienne Fodor

The emergent dynamics in phase-separated mixtures of isometric active and passive Brownian particles is studied numerically in two dimensions. A novel steady-state of well-defined traveling fronts is observed, where the interface between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-03 Adam Wysocki , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

We introduce an active matter model composed of sterically interacting particles which absorb resources from a substrate and move in response to resource gradients. For varied ratios of absorption rate to substrate recovery rate, we find a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 L. Varga , A. Libal , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

We present a diagrammatic formulation of a theory for the time dependence of density fluctuations in equilibrium systems of interacting Brownian particles. To facilitate derivation of the diagrammatic expansion we introduce a basis that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Grzegorz Szamel

The non-thermal nature of self-propelling colloids offers new insights into non-equilibrium physics. The central mathematical model to describe their trajectories is active Brownian motion, where a particle moves with a constant speed,…

Recently, we introduced the active Dyson Brownian motion model (DBM), in which $N$ run-and-tumble particles interact via a logarithmic repulsive potential in the presence of a harmonic well. We found that in a broad range of parameters the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-08 Leo Touzo , Pierre Le Doussal , Gregory Schehr

Examples of self propulsion in strongly fluctuating environment is abound in nature, e.g., molecular motors and pumps operating in living cells. Starting from Langevin equation of motion, we develop a fluctuating thermodynamic description…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-20 Chandrima Ganguly , Debasish Chaudhuri

Inertial particles in stably stratified flows play a fundamental role in geophysics, from the dynamics of nutrients in the ocean to the dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere. We consider the Maxey-Riley equation for small neutrally…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-08 Christian Reartes , Pablo D. Mininni

Driven particles in presence of crowded environment, obstacles or kinetic constraints often exhibit negative differential mobility (NDM) due to their decreased dynamical activity. We propose a new mechanism for complex many-particle systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-06 Amit Kumar Chatterjee , Urna Basu , P. K. Mohanty

Self-propelled active matter can exhibit vastly different behavior than systems with purely Brownian motion. In Eur. Phys. J. E 40, 23 (2017), Zeitz, Wolf, and Stark compared an active matter particle with a Brownian particle moving in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-06 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We use the effective field theory approach to systematically study the dynamics of classical and quantum systems in an oscillating magnetic field. We find that the fast field oscillations give rise to an effective interaction which is able…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Afshin Besharat , Alexander A. Penin

We study the motility-induced phase separation of active particles driven through the interconversion of two chemical species controlled by ideal reservoirs (chemiostats). As a consequence, the propulsion speed is non-constant and depends…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Andreas Fischer , Arkya Chatterjee , Thomas Speck

The formation and dynamics of swarms is wide spread in living systems, from bacterial bio-films to schools of fish and flocks of birds. We study this emergent collective behavior in a model of active Brownian particles with…

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

Cyclic transitions between active and passive states are central to many natural and synthetic systems, ranging from light-driven active particles to animal migrations. Here, we investigate a minimal model of self-propelled Brownian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-28 Ye Zhang , Duanduan Wan