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Two-dimensional cluster-cluster aggregation is studied when clusters move both diffusively and sediment with a size dependent velocity. Sedimentation breaks the rotational symmetry and the ensuing clusters are not self-similar fractals: the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Peltomaki , E. K. O. Hellen , M. J. Alava

We numerically studied active Brownian particles with attractive interactions. Contrary to our intuition, the attractive force between particles disrupts the formation of a single cluster observed in motility-induced phase separation,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-27 Sota Shimamura , Nen Saito , Shuji Ishihara

Brownian particles interacting via repulsive soft-core potentials can spontaneously aggregate, despite repelling each other, and form periodic crystals of particle clusters. We study this phenomenon in low-dimensional situations (one and…

Mutually repelling particles form spontaneously ordered clusters when forced into confinement. The clusters may adopt similar spatial arrangements even if the underlying particle interactions are contrastingly different. Here we demonstrate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-13 P. D. S. de Lima , R. De La Cour , K. Gaff , J. M. de Araújo , S. J. Cox , M. S. Ferreira , S. Hutzler

In equilibrium, colloidal suspensions governed by short-range attractive and long-range repulsive interactions form thermodynamically stable clusters. Using Brownian dynamics computer simulations, we investigate how this equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-30 Ethayaraja Mani , Hartmut Löwen

We consider a nonlocal aggregation diffusion equation incorporating repulsion modelled by nonlinear diffusion and attraction modelled by nonlocal interaction. When the attractive interaction kernel is radially symmetric and strictly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Roumen Anguelov , Chelsea Bright

We present a sufficient criterion for the emergence of cluster phases in an ensemble of interacting classical particles with repulsive two-body interactions. Through a zero-temperature analysis in the low density region we determine the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-25 Alejandro Mendoza-Coto , Rómulo Cenci , Guido Pupillo , Rogelio Díaz-Méndez , Egor Babaev

We introduce a lattice gas model of cluster growth via the diffusive aggregation of particles in a closed system obeying a local, deterministic, microscopically reversible dynamics. This model roughly corresponds to placing the irreversible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Raissa M. D'Souza , Norman H. Margolus

Aggregation-diffusion equations are foundational tools for modelling biological aggregations. Their principal use is to link the collective movement mechanisms of organisms to their emergent space use patterns in a concrete mathematical…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-16 Jonathan R. Potts

Transitions from reversible to irreversible or fluctuating states above a critical density and shear amplitude have been extensively studied in non-thermal cyclically sheared suspensions and amorphous solids. Here, we propose that the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-21 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

In order to simulate rigidly rotating polytropes we have simulated systems of $N$ point particles, with $N$ up to 1800. Two particles at a distance $r$ interact by an attractive potential $-1/r$ and a repulsive potential $1/r^2$. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yngve Hopstad , Jan Myrheim

We consider diffusion limited aggregation of particles of two different kinds. It is assumed that a particle of one kind may adhere only to another particle of the same kind. The particles aggregate on a linear substrate which consists of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 E. B. Postnikov , A. B. Ryabov , A. Loskutov

In analogy to recent results on non-universal roughening in surface growth [Lam and Sander, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 69}, 3338 (1992)], we propose a variant of diffusion-limited aggregation ($DLA$) in which the radii of the particles are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Ossadnik , C. -H. Lam , L. M. Sander

Computer simulations are used to generate two-dimensional diffusion-limited deposits of dipoles. The structure of these deposits is analyzed by measuring some global quantities: the density of the deposit and the lateral correlation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Tasinkevych , J. M. Tavares , F. de los Santos

Aggregation phenomena are ubiquitous in nature, encompassing out-of-equilibrium processes of fractal pattern formation, important in many areas of science and technology. Despite their simplicity, foundational models such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-31 J. R. Nicolás-Carlock , J. L. Carrillo-Estrada , V. Dossetti

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

A statistical description of heavy particles suspended in incompressible rough self-similar flows is developed. It is shown that, differently from smooth flows, particles do not form fractal clusters. They rather distribute inhomogeneously…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bec , M. Cencini , R. Hillerbrand

This study examines the effect that dipole-dipole charge interactions between fractal aggregates have on the growth of dust grains. Aggregates in a plasma or radiative environment will have charge distributed over their extended surface,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. S. Matthews , T. W. Hyde

We analyze a general class of reversible aggregate-reorganization processes. These processes are shown to exhibit globally attracting equilibrium distributions, which are \textit{universal}, i.e. identical for large classes of models.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefan Grosskinsky , Marc Timme , Bjoern Naundorf

The diffusion of finite-size hard-core interacting particles in two- or three-dimensional confined domains is considered in the limit that the confinement dimensions become comparable to the particle's dimensions. The result is a nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Maria Bruna , S. Jonathan Chapman