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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

Effect of internal chirality on collective motion of a large number of active objects is studied by simulations of appropriately modified Vicsek model. We add a fixed angle to the noise and consider small ratios, $p$, between this angle and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 W. T. Gozdz , A. Ciach

We study the flocking and pattern formations of active particles with a Vicsek-like model that includes a configuration dependent noise term. In particular, we couple the strength of the noise with both the local density and orientation of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Kosuke Matsui , John J. Molina

We consider a collective behavior model in which individuals try to imitate each others' velocity and have a preferred speed. We show that a phase change phenomenon takes place as diffusion decreases, bringing the system from a "disordered"…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Alethea B. T. Barbaro , José A. Cañizo , José A. Carrillo , Pierre Degond

Flocking and vortical are two typical motion modes in active matter. Although it is known that the two modes can spontaneously switch between each other in a finite-size system, the switching dynamics remain elusive. In this work, by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-20 Bing Yang , Yanting Wang

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

We show that dense active fluids comprising interacting particles with persistent self-propulsion are driven to a non-equilibrium steady state consisting of co-moving particles with co-aligned active forces. This velocity and force sorting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Suman Dutta , Pinaki Chaudhuri , Madan Rao , Chandan Dasgupta

Non-aligning self-propelled particles with purely repulsive excluded volume interactions undergo athermal motility-induced phase separation into a dilute gas and a dense cluster phase. Here, we use enhanced sampling computational methods…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-05 Gabriel S. Redner , Caleb G. Wagner , Aparna Baskaran , Michael F. Hagan

Self-propelled point-like particles move along circular trajectories when their translocation velocity is constant and the angular velocity related to their orientation vector is also constant. We investigate the collective behavior of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 Yingzi Yang , Feng Qiu , Gerhard Gompper

In this work we consider the phase transition from ordered to disordered states that occur in the Vicsek model of self-propelled particles. This model was proposed to describe the emergence of collective order in swarming systems. When…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-31 M. Aldana , H. Larralde , B. Vázquez

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 use coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to study the motility of a 2D vesicle containing self-propelled rods, as a function of the vesicle bending rigidity and the number density, length, and activity of the enclosed rods.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-29 Sarvesh Uplap , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

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

We numerically examine a bidisperse system of active and passive particles coupled to a resource substrate. The active particles deplete the resource at a fixed rate and move toward regions with higher resources, while all of the particles…

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

The Vicsek model, which was originally proposed to explain the dynamics of bird flocking, exhibits a phase transition with respect to the absolute value of the mean velocity. Although clusters of agents can be easily observed via numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-13 Hideyuki Miyahara , Hyu Yoneki , Tsuyoshi Mizohata , Vwani Roychowdhury

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

We present a model of soft active particles that leads to a rich array of collective behavior found also in dense biological swarms of bacteria and other unicellular organisms. Our model uses only local interactions, such as Vicsek-type…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-13 Ruben van Drongelen , Anshuman Pal , Carl P. Goodrich , Timon Idema

Vicsek Model is widely used in simulations of dry active matter. We re-examined two typical phase transitions in the original Vicsek model by using the velocity correlation length. One is the noise-driven disordered-to-ordered phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-02 Wenhao Yu , Zinuo Li , Liufang Xu

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 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