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Tracking experiments in dense biological tissues reveal a diversity of sources f or local energy injection at the cell scale. The effect of cell motility has been largely studied, but much less is known abo ut the effect of the observed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-29 Elsen Tjhung , Ludovic Berthier

We experimentally study the emergence of collective bacterial swimming, a phenomenon often referred to as bacterial turbulence. A phase diagram of the flow of 3D E. coli suspensions spanned by bacterial concentration, the swimming speed of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-09 Yi Peng , Zhengyang Liu , Xiang Cheng

The formation of dynamical patterns is one of the most striking features of nonequilibrium physical systems. Recent work has shown that such patterns arise generically from forces that violate Newton's third law, known as nonreciprocal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-26 James Mason , Robert L. Jack , Maria Bruna

We review theoretical models of individual motility as well as collective dynamics and pattern formation of active particles. We focus on simple models of active dynamics with a particular emphasis on nonlinear and stochastic dynamics of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Pawel Romanczuk , Markus Bär , Werner Ebeling , Benjamin Lindner , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

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 the linearized hydrodynamic equations of interacting self-propelled particles in two dimensional space. It is found that the small perturbations of density and polarization fields satisfy the hyperbolic partial differential…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Waipot Ngamsaad , Suthep Suantai

Active particles under soft confinement such as droplets or vesicles present intriguing phenomena, as collective motion emerges alongside the deformation of the environment. A model is employed to systematically investigate droplet…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-25 Javier Diaz , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We use a continuum, two-fluid approach to study a mixture of two active nematic fluids. Even in the absence of thermodynamically-driven ordering, for mixtures of different activities we observe turbulent microphase separation, where domains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-03 Saraswat Bhattacharyya , Julia M. Yeomans

Non-reciprocal systems exhibit diverse dynamical phases whose character depends on the type and degree of non-reciprocity. In this study, we theoretically investigate dynamical structures in a mixture of non-reciprocally aligning polar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-20 Kim L. Kreienkamp , Sabine H. L. Klapp

The term active matter describes diverse systems, spanning macroscopic (e.g. shoals of fish and flocks of birds) to microscopic scales (e.g. migrating cells, motile bacteria and gels formed through the interaction of nanoscale molecular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-03-11 Gautam I. Menon

We study the multi-scale description of large-time collective behavior of agents driven by alignment. The resulting multi-flock dynamics arises naturally with realistic initial configurations consisting of multiple spatial scaling, which in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Roman Shvydkoy , Eitan Tadmor

The self-organization of active particles on a two-dimensional single-occupancy lattice is investigated, with an emphasis on the effects of boundary confinement and the influence of an external mean fluid flow. The study examines collective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-25 Chiara Calascibetta , Laetitia Giraldi , Zakarya El Khiyati , Jérémie Bec

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

How producers of public goods persist in microbial communities is a major question in evolutionary biology. Cooperation is evolutionarily unstable, since cheating strains can reproduce quicker and take over. Spatial structure has been shown…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-28 Gurdip Uppal , Dervis Can Vural

Collective rotations are common in active matter, enhancing cohesion, transport, and mixing. They are typically attributed to chiral non-reciprocal dynamics due to intrinsic particle chirality, torque-generating interactions among units, or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-20 Maks Pečnik Bambič , Nuno A. M. Araújo , Giorgio Volpe

Fluid-mediated interactions between particles in a vibrating fluid lead to both long range attraction and short range repulsion. The resulting patterns include hexagonally ordered micro-crystallites, time-periodic structures, and chaotic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Greg A. Voth , B. Bigger , M. R. Buckley , W. Losert , M. P. Brenner , H. A. Stone , J. P. Gollub

Active fluids exhibit spontaneous flows with complex spatiotemporal structure, which have been observed in bacterial suspensions, sperm cells, cytoskeletal suspensions, self-propelled colloids, and cell tissues. Despite occurring in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-05 Ricard Alert , Jaume Casademunt , Jean-François Joanny

Hydrodynamic interactions driven by particle activity are ubiquitous in active colloidal systems. Although these interactions are strongly influenced by the interfacial actuation mechanism and geometry of the swimming particles, theoretical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-17 Anson G. Thambi , William E. Uspal

The way particles interact with turbulent structures, particularly in regions of high vorticity and strain rate, has been investigated in simulations of homogeneous turbulence and in simple flows which have a periodic or persistent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-05-28 Michael W. Reeks

We present a model of active particles interacting through a dynamic, heterogeneous environment, leading to emergent collective behaviors without direct agent-to-agent communication. Expanding the resource-dependent framework introduced in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Gaston Briozzo , Gustavo J. Sibona , Fernando Peruani