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A binary mixture of particles interacting with spherically-symmetric potentials leading to microsegregation is studied by theory and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We consider spherical particles with equal diameters and volume…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-20 O. Patsahan , M. Litniewski , A. Ciach

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

We study experimentally and numerically a (quasi) two dimensional colloidal suspension of self-propelled spherical particles. The particles are carbon-coated Janus particles, which are propelled due to diffusiophoresis in a near-critical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-10 Ivo Buttinoni , Julian Bialké , Felix Kümmel , Hartmut Löwen , Clemens Bechinger , Thomas Speck

A hallmark in natural systems, self-organization often stems from very simple interaction rules between individual agents. While single-species self-propelled particle (SPP) systems are well understood, the behavior of binary mixtures with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-05 Eloise Lardet , Letian Chen , Thibault Bertrand

We study a coupled driven system where two different species of particles, along with some vacancies or holes, move on a landscape whose shape fluctuates with time. The movement of the particles is guided by the local shape of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-06 Chandradip Khamrai , Sakuntala Chatterjee

Self-propulsion in run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) generates effective attractive interactions that can drive motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), a phenomenon absent in passive systems. Here, we investigate RTPs in the presence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Abir Bhowmick , Sayantan Mitra , P. K. Mohanty

The study of emergent behavior of swarms is of great interest for applied sciences. One of the most fundamental questions for self-organizing swarms is whether the swarms disperse or remain in a spatially cohesive configuration. In the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Constantine Medynets , Irina Popovici

Natural systems are inextricably affected by noise. Within recent decades, the manner in which noise affects the collective behavior of self-organized systems, specifically, has garnered considerable interest from researchers and developers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Ge Chen

In this study, we investigate the phenomenon of collective motion in binary mixtures of self-propelled particles. We consider two particle species, each of which consisting of pointlike objects that propel with a velocity of constant…

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

The emergence of order from initial disordered movement in self-propelled collective motion is an instance of nonequilibrium phase transition, which is known to be first order in the thermodynamic limit. Here, we introduce a multiplicative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-30 Fatemeh Haghsheno , Mohammad Mehrafarin

We show that memory, in the form of underdamped angular dynamics, is a crucial ingredient for the collective properties of self-propelled particles. Using Vicsek-style models with an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process acting on angular velocity, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Ken H. Nagai , Yutaka Sumino , Raul Montagne , Igor S. Aranson , Hugues Chaté

Dense active systems are widespread in nature, examples range from bacterial colonies to biological tissues. Dense clusters of active particles can be obtained by increasing the packing fraction of the system or taking advantage of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-13 Matteo Paoluzzi , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

The asymptotic analysis of kinetic models describing the behavior of particles interacting through alignment is performed. We will analyze the asymptotic regime corresponding to large alignment frequency where the alignment effects are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-16 M. Bostan , J. A. Carrillo

Phase diagram of the phenomenon of motility induced phase separation (MIPS) for a collection of self-propelled interacting disks is explored using Langevin dynamics simulation with particular emphasis on disk wall softness and the range of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-20 Soumen De Karmakar , Rajaraman Ganesh

A microscopic, stochastic, minimal model for collective and cohesive motion of identical self-propelled particles is introduced. Even though the particles interact strictly locally in a very noisy manner, we show that cohesion can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-05 Guillaume Gregoire , Hugues Chate , Yuhai Tu

The motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) is the spontaneous aggregation of active particles, while equilibrium phase separation (EPS) is thermodynamically driven by attractive interactions between passive particles. Despite such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-07 Kyosuke Adachi , Kyogo Kawaguchi

We introduce a system of active matter swarmalators composed of elastically interacting run-and-tumble active disks with an internal phase $\phi_i$. The disks experience an additional attractive or repulsive force with neighboring disks…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 B. Adorjani , A. Libal , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Self-propelled particles can navigate complex environments, including viscous fluid interfaces with curved geometries. In this work, we study the emergent dynamics of a suspension of self-propelled particles confined to a stationary curved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-17 Yuzhu Chen , Vishal P. Patil , David Saintillan

We investigate the collective behavior of self-propelled particles (SPPs) undergoing competitive processes of pattern formation and rotational relaxation of their self-propulsion velocities. In full accordance with previous work, we observe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-08 A. I. Chervanyov , H. Gomez , U. Thiele

In this paper, we present a two-species Vicsek model, that describes alignment interactions of self-propelled particles which can either move or not. The model consists in two populations with distinct Vicsek dynamics that interact only via…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Laurent Navoret