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We implement molecular dynamics simulations in canonical ensemble to study the effect of confinement on a $2d$ crystal of point particles interacting with an inverse power law potential proportional to $r^{-12}$ in a narrow channel. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-30 M. Ebrahim Foulaadvand , Neda Ojaghlou

We investigate how the competing presence of a nonuniform motility landscape and an external confining field affects the properties of active particles. We employ the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP) model with a periodic swim…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-02 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen

Many microswimmers are inherently chiral, and this chirality can introduce fascinating behaviors in a collection of microswimmers. The dynamics become even more intriguing when two types of microswimmers with distinct chirality are mixed.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Divya Kushwaha , Shradha Mishra

We consider an inertial active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle in an athermal bath. The particle is charged, constrained to move in a two-dimensional harmonic trap, and a magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the plane of motion. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 M Muhsin , M Sahoo

We demonstrate that edge currents develop in active chiral matter -- composed of spinning disk-shaped grains with chirally arranged tilted legs confined in a circular vibrating chamber -- due to boundary shielding over a wide range of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-09 Alexander P. Petroff , Christopher Whittington , Arshad Kudrolli

We investigate the dynamics of passive particles immersed in a bath of chiral active particles, focusing on the emergence of collective rotational motion. Using numerical simulations, we show that passive particles aggregate into clusters…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-14 Divya Kushwaha , Abhra Puitandy , Shradha Mishra

We investigate the swim pressure exerted by non-chiral and chiral active particles on convex or concave circular boundaries. Active particles are modeled as non-interacting and non-aligning self-propelled Brownian particles. The convex and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-01 Tayeb Jamali , Ali Naji

We study a system of active particles with soft repulsive interactions that lead to an active cluster-crystal phase in two dimensions. We use two different modelizations of the active force - Active Brownian particles (ABP) and…

We investigate the behavior of colloidal suspensions with different volume fractions confined between parallel walls under a range of steady shears. We model the particles using molecular dynamics (MD) with full hydrodynamic interactions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-18 Frances E. Mackay , Kyle Pastor , Mikko Karttunen , Colin Denniston

We review recent progress in the theoretical description of anisotropic hard colloidal particles. The shapes considered range from rods and dumbbells to rounded cubes, polyhedra and to biaxial particles with arbitrary shape. Our focus is on…

The phase behavior of hydrocarbon fluids confined in porous media has been reported to deviate significantly from that in the bulk environment due to the existence of sub-10nm pores. Though experiments and simulations have measured the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-16 Jiaoyan Li , Qi Rao , Yidong Xia , Michael P. Hoepfner , Milind Deo

The diffusion of micro- and nanoswimmers in a fluid, confined within irregular structures that impose entropic barriers, is often modeled using overdamped active Brownian dynamics, where viscous effects are paramount and inertia is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-03 Narender Khatri , Vikas Sharma , Anton F. Burnet , Suneet Kumar Awasthi

Active particles exhibit self-propulsion, leading to transport behavior that differs fundamentally from passive Brownian motion. In confined or structured domains, activity strongly influence escape probabilities and first-passage behavior.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-27 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Zhiwei Peng

A mixture of spinning particles of two different types represents a system where both nonreciprocity and chirality determine the emergent dynamics. In this work we present a minimal model for a two-species mixture of chiral active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-27 Giulia Pisegna , Suropriya Saha

Active movement is essential for the survival of microorganisms like bacteria, algae and unicellular parasites. In three dimensions, both swimming and gliding microorganisms often exhibit helical trajectories. One such case are malaria…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-09 Leon Lettermann , Falko Ziebert , Mirko Singer , Friedrich Frischknecht , Ulrich S. Schwarz

Recently achieved chiral condensates open intriguing avenues for the study of the chiral properties induced by current-density interactions. An attempt to include these features in a spinor system is presented, which gives rise to a…

The Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Particle (OUP) model imagines a microscopic swimmer propelled by an active force which is correlated with itself on a finite time-scale. Here we investigate the influence of external potentials on an ideal suspension…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-09 Cato Sandford , Alexander Y. Grosberg

We study collective dynamical behavior of active particles with topological interactions and directional reversals. Surprising phenomena are shown to emerge as the interaction relaxation time is varied relative to the reversal rate, such as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-11 Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Luiza Angheluta , Eirik Grude Flekkøy

An active colloidal fluid comprised of self-propelled spinning particles injecting energy and angular momentum at the microscale demonstrates spontaneous collective states that range from flocks to coherent vortices. Despite their seeming…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-16 Bo Zhang , Benjamin Hilton , Christopher Short , Anton Souslov , Alexey Snezhko

We theoretically explore the dynamics of a chiral active Ornstein Uhlenbeck particle confined in a two-dimensional anisotropic harmonic trap. The particle is driven by chirality and is coupled to two orthogonal heat baths, potentially at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-17 S Deion , F Adersh , M Sahoo