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We study numerically a model of non-aligning self-propelled particles interacting through steric repulsion, which was recently shown to exhibit active phase separation in two dimensions in the absence of any attractive interaction or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-03 Yaouen Fily , Silke Henkes , M. Cristina Marchetti

We use computer simulations to study the morphology and rheological properties of a bidimensional emulsion resulting from a mixture of a passive isotropic fluid and an active contractile polar gel, in the presence of a surfactant that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-30 L. N. Carenza , G. Gonnella , A. Lamura , D. Marenduzzo , G. Negro , A. Tiribocchi

A generalized hydrodynamic (GHD) model depicting the behaviour of visco-elastic fluids has often been invoked to explore the behaviour of a strongly coupled dusty plasma medium below their crystallization limit. The model has been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Vikram Singh Dharodi , Sanat Kumar Tiwari , Amita Das

Phase separating systems that are maintained away from thermodynamic equilibrium via molecular processes represent a class of active systems, which we call active emulsions. These systems are driven by external energy input for example…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-07 Christoph A. Weber , David Zwicker , Frank Jülicher , Chiu Fan Lee

We study non-equilibrium phases for interacting two-dimensional self-propelled particles with isotropic pair-wise interactions using a persistent kinetic Monte Carlo (MC) approach. We establish the quantitative phase diagram, including the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-17 Juliane U. Klamser , Sebastian C. Kapfer , Werner Krauth

Active matter, encompassing natural systems, converts surrounding energy to sustain autonomous motion, exhibiting unique non-equilibrium behaviors such as active turbulence and phase separation. In this study, we develop a continuum…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-06 Sohail Ahmed , Zixiang Lin , Zijie Qu

We reveal that the mechanical pulsation of locally synchronised particles is a generic route to propagate deformation waves. We consider a model of dense repulsive particles whose activity drives periodic change in size of each individual.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-12 Yiwei Zhang , Étienne Fodor

We develop a dynamic mean-field theory for polar active particles that interact through a self-generated field, in particular one generated through emitting a chemical signal. While being a form of chemotactic response, it is different from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-15 Andreas Fischer , Friederike Schmid , Thomas Speck

We propose an agent-based model of active flexible rods. Inspired by cytoskeletal flows, we introduce activity by an internal flow that contributes to the dissipative forces. The active force between our agents is central and reciprocal,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-06 Mathieu Dedenon , Carles Blanch-Mercader , Karsten Kruse , Jens Elgeti

We perform extensive numerical simulations of a paradigmatic model glass former, the hard-sphere fluid with 10% polydispersity. We sample from the ensemble of trajectories with fixed observation time, whereby single trajectories are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-28 Matteo Campo , Thomas Speck

Living materials such as membranes, cytoskeletal assemblies, cell collectives and tissues can often be described as active solids -- materials that are energized from within, with elastic response about a well defined reference…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-15 Yuan Zhou , Lazaros Tsaloukidis , Jack Binysh , Yuchao Chen , Nikta Fakhri , Corentin Coulais , Piotr Surówka

Models of active nematics in biological systems normally require complexity arising from the hydrodynamics involved at the microscopic level as well as the viscoelastic nature of the system. Here we show that a minimal, space-independent,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-27 Emmanuel L. C. VI M. Plan , Huong Le Thi , Julia M. Yeomans , Amin Doostmohammadi

We address some open questions regarding the phase diagram of the one-dimensional Hubbard model with asymmetric hopping coefficients and balanced species. In the attractive regime we present a numerical study of the passage from on-site…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-25 L. Barbiero , M. Casadei , M. Dalmonte , C. Degli Esposti Boschi , E. Ercolessi , F. Ortolani

We study the behavior of colloidal active particles interacting via steric repulsion in various quasi-1D geometries. We mainly focus on active particles with high P\'eclet number. We discuss 3 phenomena closely tied to those systems:…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-15 Šimon Pajger , František Slanina

In this work we have characterized the phase behaviour and the dynamics of bidimensional mixtures of active and passive Brownian particles. We have evaluated state diagrams at several concentrations of the passive components finding that,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-12 Diego Rogel Rodriguez , Francisco Alarcon , Raul Martinez , Jorge Ramirez , Chantal Valeriani

We study the collective behaviour of an ensemble of coupled motile elements whose interactions depend on time and are alternatively attractive or repulsive. The evolution of interactions is driven by individual internal variables with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Damian H. Zanette , Alexander S. Mikhailov

The field of active matter explores the behaviors of self propelled agents out of equilibrium, with active suspensions, such as swimming bacteria in solutions, serving as impactful models. These systems exhibit spatio-temporal patterns akin…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-26 Pratikshya Jena , Shradha Mishra

In active nematic liquid crystals activity is able to drive chaotic spatiotemporal flows referred to as active turbulence. Active turbulence has been characterized through theoretical and experimental work as a low Reynolds number…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-30 C. Rorai , F. Toschi , I. Pagonabarraga

We consider two dimensional dispersions of droplets of isotropic phase in a liquid with an XY-like order parameter, tilt, nematic, and hexatic symmetries being included. Strong anchoring boundary conditions are assumed. Textures for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-06 K. S. Korolev , David R. Nelson

We investigate the effect of translational and rotational inertia on motility-induced phase separation in underdamped active dumbbells and identify the emergence of four distinct kinetic temperatures across the coexisting phases-unlike in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-30 Subhasish Chaki , Hartmut Löwen