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We demonstrate that active rotations in chemically signalling particles, such as autochemotactic {\it E. coli} close to walls, create a route for pattern formation based on a nonlinear yet deterministic instability mechanism. For slow…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-19 Benno Liebchen , Michael E. Cates , Davide Marenduzzo

We present a theory for the interaction between active particles and a passive flexible membrane. By explicitly solving for the pressure exerted by the active particles, we show that they reduce the membrane tension and bending modulus and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-22 David A. King , Thomas P. Russell , Ahmad K. Omar

Entropy drives the phase behavior of colloids ranging from dense suspensions of hard spheres or rods to dilute suspensions of hard spheres and depletants. Entropic ordering of anisotropic shapes into complex crystals, liquid crystals, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-26 Greg van Anders , Daphne Klotsa , N. Khalid Ahmed , Michael Engel , Sharon C. Glotzer

Self-propelled particles in anisotropic environments can exhibit a motility that depends on their orientation. This dependence is relevant for a plethora of living organisms but difficult to study in controlled environments. Here, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-27 Alexander R. Sprenger , Christian Scholz , Anton Ldov , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

We present an overview of phase field modeling of active matter systems as a tool for capturing various aspects of complex and active interfaces. We first describe how interfaces between different phases are characterized in phase field…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-26 Romain Mueller , Amin Doostmohammadi

There are rich emergent phase behaviors in non-equilibrium active systems. Flocking and clustering are two representative dynamic phases. The relationship between these two phases is still unclear. In the paper, we numerically investigate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-09 Lu Chen , Bokai Zhang , Z. C. Tu

Granulate physics has made considerable progress during the past decades in the understanding of static and dynamic properties of large ensembles of interacting macroscopic particles, including the modeling of phenomena like jamming,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-27 Tamas Borzsonyi , Ralf Stannarius

We investigate active particles that exhibit long-range interactions only restricted by a field of view, which is characterized by an angle $\beta$. We show that constraining attractive interactions to a field of view leads to the emergence…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Edgardo Brigatti , Fernando Peruani

Understanding how microscopic motility shapes emergent collective behaviors is a challenging task in active matter, especially when self-propulsion is regulated by external cues or via quorum-sensing interactions. To address this problem,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Alberto Dinelli , Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu

Using agent-based simulations of self-propelled particles subject to short-range repulsion and nematic alignment we explore the dynamical phases of a dense active material confined to the surface of a sphere. We map the dynamical phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-25 Silke Henkes , M. Cristina Marchetti , Rastko Sknepnek

We investigate the self-organization of strongly interacting particles confined in 1D and 2D. We consider hardcore bosons in spinless Hubbard lattice models with short-range interactions. We show that many-body states with topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-12 Ioannis Kleftogiannis , Ilias Amanatidis

Active nematics are dense systems of rodlike particles that consume energy to drive motion at the level of the individual particles. They exist in natural systems like biological tissues and artificial materials such as suspensions of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-14 Yunrui Li , Zahra Zarei , Phu N. Tran , Yifei Wang , Aparna Baskaran , Seth Fraden , Michael F. Hagan , Pengyu Hong

We employ Statistical Field Theory techniques for coarse-graining the steady-state properties of Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles. The computation is carried on in the framework of the Unified Colored Noise approximation that allows an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-27 Matteo Paoluzzi , Claudio Maggi , Andrea Crisanti

We propose an agent-based model of active flexible rods. Inspired by cytoskeletal flows, we introduce activity by an internal flow that contributes to the dissipative forces. The active force between our agents is central and reciprocal,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-06 Mathieu Dedenon , Carles Blanch-Mercader , Karsten Kruse , Jens Elgeti

We present a comprehensive study of Vicsek-style self-propelled particle models in two and three space dimensions. The onset of collective motion in such stochastic models with only local alignment interactions is studied in detail and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hugues Chaté , Francesco Ginelli , Guillaume Grégoire , Franck Raynaud

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 introduce a stochastic agent-based model for the flocking dynamics of self-propelled particles that exhibit velocity-alignment interactions with neighbours within their field of view. The stochasticity in the dynamics of the model arises…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Trilochan Bagarti , Shakti N. Menon

Self-propelled particles with anti-aligning interactions generally do not form a polar order. However, in this Letter, we show that when multiple types of such particles coexist and interact through aligning interactions between different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-08 Takahiro Oki , Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama , Seiya Nishikawa , Shuji Ishihara , Toshinori Namba

We propose a simple mathematical model that describes a pairing-induced motion of active and passive particles in a two-dimensional system, which is motivated by our previous paper [Ishikawa et al., Phys. Rev. E \textbf{106} (2022) 024604].…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-11 Hiroaki Ishikawa , Yuki Koyano , Hiroaki Ito , Yutaka Sumino , Hiroyuki Kitahata

This article consists of two parts. The main objectives of Part 1 are to postulate a new principle of representation invariance (PRI), and to refine the unified field model of four interactions, derived using the principle of interaction…

General Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 Tian Ma , Shouhong Wang