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The conformational and dynamical properties of active self-propelled filaments/polymers are investigated in the presence of hydrodynamic interactions by both, Brownian dynamics simulations and analytical theory. Numerically, a discrete…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-04 Aitor Martin-Gomez , Thomas Eisenstecken , Gerhard Gompper , Roland G. Winkler

We synthesize colloidal particles with various anisotropic shapes and track their orientationally resolved Brownian trajectories using confocal microscopy. An analysis of appropriate short-time correlation functions provides direct access…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Daniela J. Kraft , Raphael Wittkowski , Borge ten Hagen , Kazem V. Edmond , David J. Pine , Hartmut Löwen

We present a comprehensive computational study of the collective behavior emerging from the competition between self-propulsion, excluded volume interactions and velocity-alignment in a two-dimensionnal model of active particles. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-08 Aitor Martín-Gómez , Demian Levis , Albert Díaz-Guilera , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Using Brownian vibrators, where single particles can undergo Brownian motion under vibration, we experimentally investigated self-organized structures and dynamics of quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2d) granular materials with volume fractions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-18 Yangrui Chen , Jie Zhang

We numerically study the shear rheology of a binary mixture of soft Active Brownian Particles, from the fluid to the disordered solid regime. At low shear rates, we find a Newtonian regime, where a Green-Kubo relation with an effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-14 Roland Wiese , Klaus Kroy , Demian Levis

We numerically study the dynamics and the phases of self-propelled disk-shaped particles of different sizes with soft repulsive potential in two dimensions. Size diversity is introduced by the polydispersity index (PDI) $\epsilon$, which is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-28 Sameer Kumar , Jay Prakash Singh , Debaprasad Giri , Shradha Mishra

One of the most intriguing phenomena in active matter has been the gas-liquid like motility induced phase separation (MIPS) observed in repulsive active particles. However, experimentally no particle can be a perfect sphere, and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-20 Zhan Ma , Ran Ni

Active Brownian particles, even without attractive and anisotropic inter-particle interactions, can form a high-density phase featuring structure-ordered domains as well as collective motion regions under thermal noise. However, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-14 Cheng Yang , Qiandong Dai , Shun Xu , Xin Zhou

There is now convincing evidence that inter-particle frictional contacts are essential for observing shear-thickening in concentrated suspensions of compact particles. While this has inspired many strategies to tailor the rheology in these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-15 Vikram Rathee , Srishti Arora , Daniel L. Blair , Jeffrey S. Urbach , A. K. Sood , Rajesh Ganapathy

Using Brownian dynamics simulations, we systematically study the effective interaction between two parallel hard walls in a 2D suspension of self-propelled (active) colloidal hard spheres, and we find that the effective force between two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-14 Ran Ni , Martien A. Cohen Stuart , Peter G. Bolhuis

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), the phenomenon in which purely repulsive active particles undergo a liquid-gas phase separation, is among the simplest and most widely studied examples of a nonequilibrium phase transition. Here, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-11 Ahmad K. Omar , Katherine Klymko , Trevor GrandPre , Phillip L. Geissler

We consider a system of independent point-like particles performing a Brownian motion while interacting with a Gaussian fluctuating background. These particles are in addition endowed with a discrete two-state internal degree of freedom…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-12 Ruben Zakine , Jean-Baptiste Fournier , Frédéric van Wijland

We consider the properties of a one dimensional fluid of brownian inertial hard-core particles, whose microscopic dynamics is partially damped by a heat-bath. Direct interactions among the particles are represented as binary, instantaneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marini Bettolo Marconi Umberto , Tarazona Pedro

Dense particulate suspensions often exhibit a dramatic increase in viscosity in response to external deformation. This shear thickening behavior has been related to a transition from lubricated, unconstrained pairwise motion to a frictional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-30 Shweta Sharma , Abhishek Sharma , Abhinendra Singh

We investigate the stochastic dynamics of one sedimenting active Brownian particle in three dimensions under the influence of gravity and passive fluctuations in the translational and rotational motion. We present an analytical solution of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-24 Jérémy Vachier , Marco G. Mazza

The periodic motion of a classical point particle in a one-dimensional double-well potential acquires a surprising degree of complexity if friction is added. Finite uncertainty in the initial state can make it impossible to predict in which…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-11 Joshua Oldham , Stefan Weigert

Brownian motion of single particles with various masses M and diameters D is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. Besides the momentum auto-correlation function of the Brownian particle the memory function and the fluctuating force…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hyun Kyung Shin , Changho Kim , Peter Talkner , Eok Kyun Lee

We investigate a mechanism of the appearance of kinetic friction in granular materials. We consider a small number of intervening inelastic particles between two rough surfaces as one of the simplest dynamical models to study granular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi

It is shown using the method of molecular dynamics that the motion of carbon nanoparticles (rectangular graphene flakes, spherical fullerenes of size $L<10$ nm) on the surface of a thermalized graphene sheet lying on a flat substrate can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Alexander V. Savin

The Brownian motion of microscopic particles is driven by the collisions with the molecules of the surrounding fluid. The noise associated with these collisions is not white, but coloured due, e.g., to the presence of hydrodynamic memory.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-04 Scott Hottovy , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Wehr