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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

Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS) is a distinctive phenomenon in active matter that arises from its inherent non-equilibrium nature. Despite recent progress in understanding MIPS in dry active systems, it has been debated whether…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Tingtao Zhou , John F. Brady

The aim of this paper is to discuss the mathematical modeling of Brownian active particle systems, a recently popular paradigmatic system for self-propelled particles. We present four microscopic models with different types of repulsive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-31 M. Bruna , M. Burger , A. Esposito , S. M. Schulz

The cohesive collective motion (flocking, swarming) of autonomous agents is ubiquitously observed and exploited in both natural and man-made settings, thus, minimal models for its description are essential. In a model with continuous space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-12 Illes J. Farkas , Jeromos Kun , Yi Jin , Gaoqi He , Mingliang Xu

Understanding the organization of collective motion in biological systems is an ongoing challenge. In this Paper we consider a minimal model of self-propelled particles with variable speed. Inspired by experimental data from schooling fish,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shradha Mishra , Kolbjørn Tunstrøm , Iain D. Couzin , Cristián Huepe

The clustering of self-motile and repulsive particles, so-called motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), is one of the clearest signatures of active physics. Typically, increasing the amplitude of self-motility increases the degree of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-12 Letian Chen , Luke K. Davis

The flocking of self-propelled particles in heterogeneous environments is relevant to both natural and artificial systems. The Vicsek model is a canonical choice to investigate such systems due to the minimal number of parameters required…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Eighdi Aung , Nicole Abaid , James E. McClure

We study coarse-grained density fluctuations in the disordered phase of the paradigmatic Vicsek-like models of self-propelled particles with alignment interactions and random self-propulsion velocities. By numerically integrating a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-20 Subhadip Chakraborti , Punyabrata Pradhan

In this work we investigate the collective behavior of self-propelled particles that deform due to local pairwise interactions. We demonstrate that this deformation alone can induce alignment of the velocity vectors. The onset of collective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-20 Andreas M. Menzel , Takao Ohta

We study a system of self-propelled particles (SPPs) in which individual particles are allowed to switch between a fast aligning and a slow nonaligning state depending upon the degree of the alignment in the neighborhood. The switching is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Kunal Bhattacharya , Abhijit Chakraborty

We study motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) in symmetric and asymmetric active binary mixtures. We start with the coarse-grained run-and-tumble bacterial model that provides evolution equations for the density fields $\rho_i(\vec r,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-02 Sayantan Mondal , Prasenjit Das

As a result of the competition between self-propulsion and excluded volume interactions, purely repulsive self-propelled spherical particles undergo a motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). We carry out a systematic computational study,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-08 Demian Levis , Joan Codina , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Active soft matter frequently shows motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), where self-propelled particles condensate into clusters with an inner liquid-like structure. Such activity may also result in motility-induced crystallization…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-24 Max Philipp Holl , Alina Barbar Steinberg , Uwe Thiele

To elucidate mechanisms of mesoscopic turbulence exhibited by active particles, we experimentally study turbulent states of non-living self-propelled particles. We realize an experimental system with dense suspensions of asymmetrical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-16 Daiki Nishiguchi , Masaki Sano

Synchronization is one of the emerging collective phenomena in interacting particle systems. Its ubiquitous presence in nature, science, and technology has fascinated the scientific community over the decades. Moreover, a great deal of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-12-18 Suvam Pal , Gourab Kumar Sar , Dibakar Ghosh , Arnab Pal

We investigate the collective dynamics of self-propelled droplets, confined in a one dimensional micro-fluidic channel. On one hand, neighboring droplets align and form large trains of droplets moving in the same direction. On the other…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-14 Pierre Illien , Charlotte de Blois , Yang Liu , Marjolein N. van der Linden , Olivier Dauchot

Motivated by recent experiments on colloidal suspensions, we study analytically and numerically a microscopic model for self-propelled particles lacking alignment interactions. In this model, even for purely repulsive interactions, a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-10 Julian Bialké , Hartmut Löwen , Thomas Speck

Via molecular dynamics simulations we have studied kinetics of vapor-"solid" phase transition in an active matter model in which self-propulsion is introduced via the well-known Vicsek rule. The overall density of the particles is chosen in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-05 Subhajit Paul , Arabinda Bera , Subir K. Das

We study the collective motion of self-propelled particles affected by the spatial-dependent noise based on the Vicsek rules. Only the particles inside the special region will affected by noise. The consideration of the spatial-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-16 Jia-xin Qian , Yan-qing Lu

We study the dynamical steady-states of a monolayer of chemically active self-phoretic colloids as a function of packing fraction and self-propulsion speed by means of Brownian dynamics simulations. We focus on the case that a chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-11 Federico Fadda , D. A. Matoz-Fernandez , René van Roij , Sara Jabbari-Farouji