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In this paper, we discuss microscopic models for chiral active particles, i.e., rotating active units that exhibit circular or spinning motion. While non-chiral active particles are typically governed by self-propulsion and conservative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-20 Lorenzo Caprini , Alessandro Petrini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We use three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of homogeneous isotropic turbulence in a cubic domain to investigate the dynamics of heavy, chiral, finite-size inertial particles and their effects on the flow. Using an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-21 Giulia Piumini , Martin P. A. Assen , Detlef Lohse , Roberto Verzicco

We analyze the pattern formation in systems of active particles with chiral forces in the context of pedestrian dynamics. To describe the interparticle interactions, we use the standard social force model and supplement it with a new type…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-30 Anna S. Bodrova , Fatema Al Najim , N. V. Brilliantov

Confined suspensions of active particles show peculiar dynamics characterized by wall accumulation, as well as upstream swimming, centerline depletion and shear-trapping when a pressure-driven flow is imposed. We use theory and numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Barath Ezhilan , David Saintillan

The investigation of collective behaviour in dense assemblies of self-propelled active particles has been motivated by a wide range of biological phenomena. Of particular interest are dynamical transitions of cellular and sub-cellular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-05 Yagyik Goswami , G. V. Shivashankar , Srikanth Sastry

We study a self-propelled particle moving in a solvent with the active Ornstein Uhlenbeck dynamics in the underdamped regime to evaluate the influence of the inertia. We focus on the properties of potential-free and harmonically confined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We show that spontaneous density segregation in dense systems of aligning circle swimmers is a condensation phenomenon at odds with the phase separation scenarios usually observed in two-dimensional active matter. The condensates, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-20 Yujia Wang , Bruno Ventéjou , Hugues Chaté , Xia-qing Shi

Spontaneous growth of long-wavelength deformations is a defining feature of active fluids with orientational order. We investigate the effect of biaxial rectangular confinement on the instability of initially shear-aligned 3D isotropic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-04 Pooja Chandrakar , Minu Varghese , S. Ali Aghvami , Aparna Baskaran , Zvonimir Dogic , Guillaume Duclos

We study the stationary state of a chain of harmonic oscillators driven by two active reservoirs at the two ends. These reservoirs exert correlated stochastic forces on the boundary oscillators which eventually leads to a nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-19 Ritwick Sarkar , Ion Santra , Urna Basu

Collective motion is ubiquitous in active systems at all length and time scales. The mechanisms behind such collective motion usually are alignment interactions between active particles, effective alignment after collisions between agents…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-24 José Martín-Roca , Daniel Escobar Ortiz , Chantal Valeriani , Horacio Serna

Molecular dynamics computer simulations are used to investigate a silica melt confined between walls at equilibrium and in a steady-state Poisseuille flow. The walls consist of point particles forming a rigid face-centered cubic lattice and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Juergen Horbach , Kurt Binder

In this work we use Monte Carlo simulations to study the phase behavior of spherical caps confined between two parallel hard walls separated by a distance H. The particle model consists of a hard sphere of diameter \sigma cut off by a plane…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-03 Carlos Avendano , Chekesha M. Liddell Watson , Fernando A. Escobedo

We study the single-file dynamics of three classes of active particles: run-and-tumble particles, active Brownian particles and active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles. At high activity values, the particles, interacting via purely repulsive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-08 Pritha Dolai , Arghya Das , Anupam Kundu , Chandan Dasgupta , Abhishek Dhar , K. Vijay Kumar

We present an analytical and computational study characterizing the structural and dynamical properties of an active filament confined in cylindrical channels. We first outline the effects of the interplay between confinement and polar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-09 José Martín-Roca , Emanuele Locatelli , Valentino Bianco , Paolo Malgaretti , Chantal Valeriani

We experimentally study the dynamics of active particles (APs) in a viscoelastic fluid under various geometrical constraints such as flat walls, spherical obstacles and cylindrical cavities. We observe that the main effect of the confined…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-21 N Narinder , Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Clemens Bechinger

Persistent currents in quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates become chiral in the presence of current-density interactions. This phenomenon is explored in ultracold atoms loaded in a rotating ring geometry, where diverse…

We consider a microscopic field theoretical approach for interacting active nematic particles. With only steric interactions the self-propulsion strength in such systems can lead to different collective behaviour, e.g., synchronized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-04 Veit Krause , Axel Voigt

Chiral particles are experimentally investigated while settling inwater with various turbulence intensity levels. The locations and orientations of the particles are tracked over time, allowing the close investigation of the particles'…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-06 Mees M. Flapper , John E. Sader , Detlef Lohse , Sander G. Huisman

Active matter systems characterized by the interplay of chirality and self-alignment offer a rich landscape for the emergence of non-equilibrium collective behaviors and the development of autonomous materials. We present a versatile…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-20 Timo Wagner , Michael Himpel , Thomas Ihle , Horst-Holger Boltz

The interplay of chirality, self-propulsion, and spatial confinement generates striking non-equilibrium fluctuations whose higher-order statistics carry information about the dynamics and shape of the position distribution. Here, we present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 Anweshika Pattanayak , Amir Shee , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Debasish Chaudhuri