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We introduce and solve a model of hardcore particles on a one dimensional periodic lattice which undergoes an active-absorbing state phase transition at finite density. In this model an occupied site is defined to be active if its left…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-28 Urna Basu , P. K. Mohanty

We present a mode-coupling theory (MCT) for the high-density dynamics of two-dimensional spherical active Brownian particles (ABP). The theory is based on the integration-through-transients (ITT) formalism and hence provides a starting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-20 Alexander Liluashvili , Jonathan Onody , Thomas Voigtmann

It is known rigorously that the phase transition of the $q$-state ferromagnetic Potts model on the square lattice is second order for $q=4$. Despite this fact, some observables of the $q=4$ model show features of a first-order phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-18 Yuan-Heng Tseng , Shang-Wei Li , Fu-Jiun Jiang

Recently, we proposed a self-propelled particle model with competing alignment interactions: nearby particles tend to align their velocities whereas they anti-align their direction of motion with particles which are further away [R.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Großmann , Pawel Romanczuk , Markus Bär , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Non-equilibrium active matter made up of self-driven particles with short-range repulsive interactions is a useful minimal system to study active matter as the system exhibits collective motion and nonequilibrium order-disorder transitions.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-06 Hui-Shun Kuan , Robert Blackwell , Loren E. Hough , Matthew A. Glaser , M. D. Betterton

We propose a new overarching model for self-propelled particles that flexibly generates a full family of "descendants". The general dynamics introduced in this paper, which we denote as "parental" active model (PAM), unifies two special…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Caprini , Alexander Ralf Sprenger , Hartmut Löwen , René Wittmann

We construct the hydrodynamic theory of coherent collective motion ("flocking") at a solid-liquid interface. The polar order parameter and concentration of a collection of "active" (self-propelled) particles at a planar interface between a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 Niladri Sarkar , Abhik Basu , John Toner

Field control provides a practical route to programmable active matter, yet how weak fields modify non-equilibrium coexistence and interfaces remains unclear. To address this, we study a minimal flocking model of active Potts particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-30 Mintu Karmakar , Matthieu Mangeat , Swarnajit Chatterjee , Heiko Rieger , Raja Paul

We study a discrete-space model of active matter with excluded volume. Particles are restricted to the sites of a triangular lattice, and can assume one of three orientations. Varying the density and noise intensity, Monte Carlo simulations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-03 Tiago Venzel Rosembach , Ana Luiza Novaes Dias , Ronald Dickman

Active transport of biomolecular condensates and cell migration in collectives are fundamental to development, homeostasis, and processes such as cancer progression, wound healing, and infection response. Yet how these assemblies are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-24 Hossein Vahid , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Abhinav Sharma

We introduce a model for self-organized dynamics which, we argue, addresses several drawbacks of the celebrated Cucker-Smale (C-S) model. The proposed model does not only take into account the distance between agents, but instead, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Sebastien Motsch , Eitan Tadmor

We investigate the effect of cooperative interactions in an ensemble of microorganisms, modelled as self-propelled disk-like and rod-like particles, in a three-dimensional turbulent flow to show flocking as an emergent phenomenon. Building…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-20 Anupam Gupta , Amal Roy , Arnab Saha , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

We introduce a lattice model for active nematic composed of self-propelled apolar particles,study its different ordering states in the density-temperature parameter space, and compare with the corresponding equilibrium model. The active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-26 Rakesh Das , Manoranjan Kumar , Shradha Mishra

The collective behavior of active semiflexible filaments is studied with a model of tangentially driven self-propelled worm-like chains. The combination of excluded-volume interactions and self-propulsion leads to several distinct dynamic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Ozer Duman , Rolf E. Isele-Holder , Jens Elgeti , Gerhard Gompper

A model of self-driven particles similar to the Vicsek model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 (1995) 1226] but with metric-free interactions is studied by means of a novel Enskog-type kinetic theory. In this model, N particles of constant speed v0 try…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-21 Yen-Liang Chou , Rylan Wolfe , Thomas Ihle

Via computer simulations we study kinetics of pattern formation in a two-dimensional active matter system. Self-propulsion in our model is incorporated via the Vicsek-like activity, i.e., particles have the tendency of aligning their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-26 Saikat Chakraborty , Subir K. Das

We study a model of flocking in order to describe the transitions during the collective motion of organisms in three dimensions (e.g., birds). In this model the particles representing the organisms are self-propelled, i.e., they move with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Czirok , M. Vicsek , T. Vicsek

We propose a minimal microscopic model for active nematic particles similar in spirit to the Vicsek model for self-propelled polar particles. In two dimensions, we show that this model exhibits a Kosterlitz-Thouless-like transition to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hugues Chate , Francesco Ginelli , Raul Montagne

We study in detail the hydrodynamic theories describing the transition to collective motion in polar active matter, exemplified by the Vicsek and active Ising models. Using a simple phenomenological theory, we show the existence of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Alexandre P. Solon , Jean-Baptiste Caussin , Denis Bartolo , Hugues Chaté , Julien Tailleur

We study the structure and phase behavior of a binary mixture where one of the components is self-propelling in nature. The inter-particle interactions in the system were taken from the Asakura-Oosawa model, for colloid-polymer mixtures,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Subir K. Das , Sergei Egorov , Benjamin Trefz , Peter Virnau , Kurt Binder