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In this work we analyze the classical confinement of relativistic and supersymmetric spinning particles in higher-codimension braneworlds. Considering warped backgrounds generated by string-like $ n=2$ and global scalar defects $ n \geq 3$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-28 F. E. A. de Souza , M. O. Tahim , R. I. de Oliveira Júnior , I. M. Macêdo

The equilibrium properties of a system of passive diffusing particles in an external magnetic field are unaffected by the Lorentz force. In contrast, active Brownian particles exhibit steady-state phenomena that depend on both the strength…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-06 Iman Abdoli , Abhinav Sharma

A distinguishing feature of active particles is the nature of the non-equilibrium noise driving their dynamics. Control of these noise properties is, therefore, of both fundamental and applied interest. We demonstrate emergent tuning of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-05 Aniruddh Murali , Pritha Dolai , Ashwini Krishna , K. Vijay Kumar , Shashi Thutupalli

Recently achieved chiral condensates open intriguing avenues for the study of the chiral properties induced by current-density interactions. An attempt to include these features in a spinor system is presented, which gives rise to a…

We have studied the correlated Brownian motion of micron-sized particles suspended in water and confined between two plates. The hydrodynamic interaction between the particles exhibits three anomalies. (i) The transverse coupling is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Bianxiao Cui , Haim Diamant , Binhua Lin , Stuart A. Rice

Confining surfaces play crucial roles in dynamics, transport and order in many physical systems, but their effects on active matter, a broad class of dynamically self-organizing systems, are poorly understood. We investigate here the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-23 Hugo Wioland , Francis G. Woodhouse , Jörn Dunkel , John O. Kessler , Raymond E. Goldstein

Active matter systems under confinement display persistent surface motion and a strong boundary affinity. However, despite extensive studies of their positional dynamics, much less attention has been given to the corresponding orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-21 Elsa Baby , Manoj Gopalakrishnan , Vishwas V. Vasisht

Unlike equilibrium systems, active matter is not governed by the conventional laws of thermodynamics. Through a series of analytic calculations and Langevin dynamics simulations, we explore how systems cross over from equilibrium to active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-28 Ayhan Duzgun , Jonathan V. Selinger

In a system of colloidal inclusions suspended in a thermalized bath of smaller particles, the bath engenders an attractive force between the inclusions, arising mainly from entropic origins, known as the depletion force. In the case of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-01 Mahdi Zarif , Ali Naji

Self-propelled particles in an external gravitational field have been shown to display both an increased sedimentation length and polar order even without particle interactions. Here, we investigate self-propelled particles which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-17 Katrin Wolff , Aljoscha M. Hahn , Holger Stark

We develop a statistical theory for the dynamics of non-aligning, non-interacting self-propelled particles confined in a convex box in two dimensions. We find that when the size of the box is small compared to the persistence length of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-08-05 Yaouen Fily , Aparna Baskaran , Michael F. Hagan

We study the dynamics of non-aligning, non-interacting self-propelled particles confined to a box in two dimensions. In the strong confinement limit, when the persistence length of the active particles is much larger than the size of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-15 Yaouen Fily , Aparna Baskaran , Michael F. Hagan

We study the dynamics of circular active particles (AP) on a two dimensional periodic undulated surface. Each particle has an internal energy mechanism which is modeled by an active friction force and it is controlled by an activity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-04 Vivek Semwal , Shambhavi Dikshit , Shradha Mishra

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

We analyze a dilute suspension of active particles confined between walls and subjected to fields that can modulate particle speed as well as orientation. Generally, the particle distribution is different in the bulk compared to near the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-23 Vaseem A. Shaik , Zhiwei Peng , John F. Brady , Gwynn J. Elfring

We numerically explore the behavior of repelling and aligning self-propelled polar particles (boids) in 2D enclosed by a damped flexible and elastic loop-shaped boundary. We observe disordered, polar ordered (or jammed) and circulating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-24 A. C. Quillen , J. P. Smucker , A. Peshkov

Active particles exhibit self-propulsion, leading to transport behavior that differs fundamentally from passive Brownian motion. In confined or structured domains, activity strongly influence escape probabilities and first-passage behavior.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-27 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Zhiwei Peng

We study effective two- and three-body interactions between non-active colloidal inclusions in an active bath of chiral or non-chiral particles, using Brownian Dynamics simulations within a standard, two-dimensional model of disk-shaped…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-06 Mahdi Zaeifi Yamchi , Ali Naji

Inspired by groups of animals and robots, we study the collective dynamics of large numbers of active particles, each one trying to get to its own randomly placed target, while avoiding collisions with each other. The particles we study are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-09 Mathias Casiulis , Dov Levine

We investigate the emergent interactions between two active Brownian particles coupled by an attractive harmonic potential and in contact with a thermal reservoir. By analyzing the stationary distribution of their separation, we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ritwick Sarkar , Sreya Chatterjee , Urna Basu