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Driven suspensions, where energy is input at a particle scale, are a framework for understanding general principles of out-of-equilibrium organization. A large number of simple interacting units can give rise to non-trivial structure and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-23 Pamud Akalanka Bethmage , Ryker Fish , Brennan Sprinkle , Michelle M. Driscoll

Dynamics of the structured particles consisting of potentially interacting material points is considered in the framework of classical mechanics. Equations of interaction and motion of structured particles have been derived. The expression…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 V. M. Somsikov

Charged colloidal particles trapped at an air--water interface are well known to form an ordered crystal, stabilized by a long ranged repulsion, the details of this repulsion remain something of a mystery, but all experiments performed to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-22 Duck-Gyu Lee , Pietro Cicuta , Dominic Vella

We discuss biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium self-propelled particle models, in which the particles interact with their neighbours by choosing at each time step the local average direction of motion. We summarize some of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andras Czirok , Tamas Vicsek

We show that the force generated by active enzyme molecules are strong enough to influence the dynamics of their surroundings under artificial crowded environments. We measured the behavior of polymer microparticles in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-10 Arnab Maiti , Yuki Koyano , Hiroyuki Kitahata , Krishna Kanti Dey

Using Brownian dynamics simulations, we systematically study the effective interaction between two parallel hard walls in a 2D suspension of self-propelled (active) colloidal hard spheres, and we find that the effective force between two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-14 Ran Ni , Martien A. Cohen Stuart , Peter G. Bolhuis

Depletion interactions between colloidal particles dispersed in a fluid medium are effective interactions induced by the presence of other types of colloid. They are not instantaneous but build up in time. We show by means Brownian dynamics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 G. A. Vliegenthart , P. Van Der Schoot

In a bilayered system of particles with wake-mediated interactions, the action-reaction symmetry for the effective forces between particles of different layers is broken. Under quite general conditions we show that, if the interaction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 Jörg Bartnick , Andreas Kaiser , Hartmut Löwen , Alexei Ivlev

In the last decade, the study of pressure in active matter has attracted growing attention due to its fundamental relevance to nonequilibrium statistical physics. Active matter systems are composed of particles that consume energy to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-14 Guo Yu , Ruiyao Li , Fukang Li , Jiayu Zhang , Xiyue Li , Zequ Chen , Joscha Mecke , Yongxiang Gao

Nonreciprocal effective interaction forces can occur between mesoscopic particles in colloidal suspensions that are driven out of equilibrium. These forces violate Newton's third law actio=reactio on coarse-grained length and time scales.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-20 Jörg Bartnick , Marco Heinen , Alexei V Ivlev , Hartmut Löwen

We consider the collective motion of finite-sized, overdamped Brownian particles (e.g., motor proteins) in a periodic potential. Simulations of our model have revealed a number of novel cooperative transport phenomena, including (i) the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Imre Derenyi , Tamas Vicsek

We investigate dynamics of deformable self-propelled particles with a repulsive interaction whose magnitude depends on the relative direction of elongation of a pair of particles. A collective motion of the particles appears in two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 Yu Itino , Takahiro Ohkuma , Takao Ohta

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

We analyse collective motion that occurs during rare (large deviation) events in systems of active particles, both numerically and analytically. We discuss the associated dynamical phase transition to collective motion, which occurs when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-10 Yann-Edwin Keta , Étienne Fodor , Frédéric van Wijland , Michael E. Cates , Robert L. Jack

We show that heterogeneity in self-propulsion speed can lead to the emergence of a robust effective short-range repulsion among active particles interacting via long-range attractive potentials. Using the example of harmonically coupled…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-09 Ritwick Sarkar , Urna Basu

We relate the breakdown of equations of states for the mechanical pressure of generic dry active systems to the lack of momentum conservation in such systems. We show how sources and sinks of momentum arise generically close to confining…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-21 Yaouen Fily , Yariv Kafri , Alexandre P. Solon , Julien Tailleur , Ari Turner

Based on Brownian Dynamics (BD) simulations, we study the dynamical self-assembly of active Brownian particles with dipole-dipole interactions, stemming from a permanent point dipole at the particle center. The propulsion direction of each…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Guo-Jun Liao , Carol K. Hall , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Active particles may happen to be confined in channels so narrow that they cannot overtake each other (Single File conditions). This interesting situation reveals nontrivial physical features as a consequence of the strong inter-particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Emanuele Locatelli , Fulvio Baldovin , Enzo Orlandini , Matteo Pierno

Active matter systems - such as a collection of active colloidal particles - operate far from equilibrium with complex inter-particle interactions that govern their collective dynamics. Predicting the collective dynamics of such systems may…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-06 Arvin Gopal Subramaniam , Manoj Kumar , Shashi Thutupalli , Rajesh Singh

Asymmetric obstacles can be exploited to direct the motion and induce sorting of run-and-tumbling particles. In this work, we show that flocking particles which follow the Vicsek model aligning rules experience a collective trapping in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-02 Raul Martinez , Francisco Alarcon , Juan Luis Aragones , Chantal Valeriani