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Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) is of great importance and has been extensively researched in overdamped systems, nevertheless, what impacts inertia will bring on kinetics of MIPS is lack of investigation. Here, we find that, not…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-09 Jie Su , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

In a system of Self-Propelled Particles (SPPs), the combination of self-propulsion and excluded volume effects can result in a phase separation called Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). Previous studies reported that MIPS is one of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-03 Hiroya Yamamoto

We report a motility-induced pinning transition in the active Ising model for a self-propelled particle system with discrete symmetry. This model was known to exhibit a liquid-gas type flocking phase transition, but a recent study reveals…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-09 Chul-Ung Woo , Jae Dong Noh

Self-propelled particles with alignment, displaying ordered collective motions such as swarming, can be investigated by the well-known Vicsek model. However, challenges still remain regarding the nature of the associated phase transition.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-12 Ruizhe Yan , Jie Su , Jin Wang

Minimal models of self-propelled particles with short-range volume exclusion interactions have been shown to exhibit signatures of phase separation. Here I show that the observed interfacial stability and fluctuations in motility-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-11 Chiu Fan Lee

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) is a central collective phenomenon in active matter, theoretically established in the overdamped regime. We discover that the dynamical origin of MIPS is fundamentally altered by inertia, which…

We study a system of self-propelled particles whose alignment with neighbors depends on the degree of local alignment. We show that such a local conformity interaction naturally yields a Vicsek-type model with pairwise and three-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Iván León , Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao , Keisuke Taga

One standard approach to describe the collective behaviour of self-propelled particles is the Vicsek model: point-like self-propelled particles tend to align their migration directions to the ones of their nearer neighbours at each…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-27 Andreas M. Menzel

Collectives of actively-moving particles can spontaneously segregate into dilute and dense phases through a process known as motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). This captivating phenomenon is well-studied for randomly-moving particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-04 Hongbo Zhao , Qiwei Yu , Andrej Košmrlj , Sujit S. Datta

In active matter systems, self-propelled particles can self-organize to undergo collective motion, leading to persistent dynamical behavior out of equilibrium. In cells, cytoskeletal filaments and motor proteins self-organize into complex…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-19 Jeffrey M. Moore , Tyler N. Thompson , Matthew A. Glaser , Meredith D. Betterton

Recent studies of the phase diagram for spherical, purely repulsive, active particles established the existence of a transition from a liquid-like to a solid-like phase analogous to the one observed in colloidal systems at thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-30 Lorenzo Caprini , Claudio Maggi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Matteo Paoluzzi , Andrea Puglisi

The phase diagram of self-propelled hard disk systems with Vicsek-type alignment interactions was investigated by event-driven molecular dynamics simulations. The model incorporates two competing order parameters: the polar order-disorder…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Nobuaki Murase , Masaharu Isobe

Collective behavior in biological systems was first captured by the Vicsek model, in which particles align their velocities in the average direction of neighbors, leading to coherent motion and showing an order-disorder transition. However,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-26 Mohit Gaur , Arnab Saha , Subhajit Paul

Using a multi-phase field model, we examine how particle deformability, which is a proxy for cell stiffness, affects motility induced phase separation (MIPS). We show that purely repulsive deformable, i.e., squishy, cells phase separate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-12 Austin Hopkins , Benjamin Loewe , Michael Chiang , Davide Marenduzzo , M. Cristina Marchetti

Self-propelled particles, like motile cells and artificial colloids, can spontaneously form macroscopic clusters. This phenomenon is called motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) and occurs even without attractive forces, provided that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-26 Felipe Hawthorne , Pablo de Castro , José A. Freire

Self-propelled particle (SPP) systems are intrinsically out of equilibrium systems, where each individual particle converts energy into work to move in a dissipative medium. When interacting through a velocity alignment mechanism, and the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Julien Barre , Raphael Chetrite , Massimiliano Muratori , Fernando Peruani

Spontaneous segregation of run-and-tumble particles with different velocities in microchannels is investigated by numerical simulations. Self-propelled particles are known to accumulate in the proximity of walls. Here we show how fast…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-05 Andrea Costanzo , Jens Elgeti , Thorsten Auth , Gerhard Gompper , Marisol Ripoll

We have carried out a Monte Carlo simulation of a modified version of Vicsek model for the motion of self-propelled particles in two dimensions. In this model the neighborhood of interaction of a particle is a sector of the circle with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-24 Mihir Durve , Ahmed Sayeed

We investigate a simple Vicsek-type rule-based model for self-propelled particles, where each particle orients itself antiparallel to the average orientation of particles within a defined neighborhood of radius $R$. The particle orientation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-17 P. Bisht

We study numerically and analytically a model of self-propelled polar disks on a substrate in two dimensions. The particles interact via isotropic repulsive forces and are subject to rotational noise, but there is no aligning interaction.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-24 Yaouen Fily , M. Cristina Marchetti