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We investigate the interplay between chirality and confinement in harmonically trapped active particles. The circular character of chiral motion combines with the radial symmetry of the potential to create distinctive non-equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-23 Hrithik Barman

We investigate the swim pressure exerted by non-chiral and chiral active particles on convex or concave circular boundaries. Active particles are modeled as non-interacting and non-aligning self-propelled Brownian particles. The convex and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-01 Tayeb Jamali , Ali Naji

We investigate a two-dimensional system of active particles confined to a narrow annular domain. Despite the absence of explicit interactions among the velocities or the active forces of different particles, the system displays a transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Caprini , Claudio Maggi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We investigate the structural and dynamic properties of active Brownian particles (APs) confined within a soft annulus-shaped channel. Depending on the strength of the confinement and the P\'eclet number, we observe a novel re-entrant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-15 Timo Knippenberg , Ashreya Jayaram , Thomas Speck , Clemens Bechinger

In this work, we study the stationary behavior of an assembly of independent chiral active particles under confinement by employing an extension of the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model. The chirality modeled by means of an effective torque…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-14 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Self-propelled particles rarely move in straight lines; environmental interactions, shape asymmetry, and intrinsic torques generically induce curved or fluctuating trajectories. In biological and synthetic systems, this curvature often…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-06 Diganta Bhaskar , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Anil Kumar Dasanna

We present a comprehensive computational study of the collective behavior emerging from the competition between self-propulsion, excluded volume interactions and velocity-alignment in a two-dimensionnal model of active particles. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-08 Aitor Martín-Gómez , Demian Levis , Albert Díaz-Guilera , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We study a binary mixture of polar chiral (counterclockwise or clockwise) active particles in a two-dimensional box with periodic boundary conditions. Beside the excluded volume interactions between particles, particles are also subject to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-01 Bao-quan Ai , Zhi-gang Shao , Wei-rong Zhong

Suspensions of motile active particles with space dependent activity form characteristic polarization and density patterns. Recent single-particle studies for planar activity landscapes identified several quantities associated with emergent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Sven Auschra , Viktor Holubec

We present experiments on chiral active polar particles, realized as vibrated granular rods, revealing the formation of robust ``skipping orbits'' at hard boundaries. These edge states exhibit a net circulation opposite to the particles'…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-08 Raushan Kant , Ananyo Maitra , A K Sood , Sriram Ramaswamy

We consider a microscopic field theoretical approach for interacting active nematic particles. With only steric interactions the self-propulsion strength in such systems can lead to different collective behaviour, e.g., synchronized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-04 Veit Krause , Axel Voigt

We investigate the interplay between chirality and confinement induced by the presence of an external potential. For potentials having radial symmetry, the circular character of the trajectories induced by the chiral motion reduces the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-08 Lorenzo Caprini , Hartmut Löwen , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Controlling the motion of active matter is a central issue that has recently garnered significant attention in fields ranging from non-equilibrium physics to chemical engineering and biology. Distinct methods for controlling active matter…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-25 Archit Negi , Kazusa Beppu , Yusuke T. Maeda

Active-particle suspensions exhibit distinct polarization-density patterns in activity landscapes, even without anisotropic particle interactions. Such polarization without alignment forces is at work in motility-induced phase separation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Nicola Andreas Söker , Sven Auschra , Viktor Holubec , Klaus Kroy , Frank Cichos

Collective rotations are common in active matter, enhancing cohesion, transport, and mixing. They are typically attributed to chiral non-reciprocal dynamics due to intrinsic particle chirality, torque-generating interactions among units, or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-20 Maks Pečnik Bambič , Nuno A. M. Araújo , Giorgio Volpe

The transport of active particles may occur in complex environments, in which it emerges from the interplay between the mobility of the active components and the quenched disorder of the environment. Here we explore structural and dynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-31 Fergus J. Moore , John Russo Tanniemola B. Liverpool , C. Patrick Royall

The non-equilibrium dynamics of individual chiral active particles underpin the complex behavior of chiral active matter. Here we present an exact analytical framework, supported by simulations, to characterize the steady states of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-29 Anweshika Pattanayak , Amir Shee , Debasish Chaudhuri , Abhishek Chaudhuri

In this study, we conduct experimental investigations on the behavior of confined self-propelled particles within a circular arena, employing small commercial robots capable of locomotion, communication, and information processing. These…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 E. Barone , G. A. Patterson

Colloidal inclusions suspended in a bath of smaller particles experience an effective bath-mediated attraction at small intersurface separations, which is known as the depletion interaction. In an active bath of nonchiral self-propelled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-02 Abdolhalim Torrik , Ali Naji , Mahdi Zarif

A binary system of classical charged particles interacting through a dipole repulsive potential and confined in a two-dimensional hardwall trap is studied by Brownian dynamics simulations. We found that the presence of small particles…

Popular Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Nelissen , B. Partoens , I. Schweigert , F. M. Peeters
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