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We study the dynamical steady-states of a monolayer of chemically active self-phoretic colloids as a function of packing fraction and self-propulsion speed by means of Brownian dynamics simulations. We focus on the case that a chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-11 Federico Fadda , D. A. Matoz-Fernandez , René van Roij , Sara Jabbari-Farouji

Active matter systems provide fascinating examples of pattern formation and collective motility without counterparts in equilibrium systems. Here, we employ Brownian dynamics simulations to study the collective motion and self-organization…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-20 Leila Abbaspour , Ali Malek , Stefan Karpitschka , Stefan Klumpp

We numerically examine the driven transport of an overdamped self-propelled particle through a two-dimensional array of circular obstacles. A detailed analysis of transport quantifiers (mobility and diffusivity) has been performed for two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-16 Shubhadip Nayak , Sohom Das , Poulami Bag , Tanwi Debnath , Pulak K. Ghosh

Ratchet effects can arise for single or collectively interacting Brownian particles on an asymmetric substrate when a net dc transport is produced by an externally applied ac driving force or by periodically flashing the substrate.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-06 C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

Solid phase of dense granular matter is inevitable because of jamming transition when the packing fraction or the pressure suffered is high enough. The experiment suggests that active Brownian granular matter will keep fluid phase even…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-17 Cunyuan Jiang

We study the motion of an active Brownian particle (ABP) using overdamped Langevin dynamics on a two-dimensional substrate with periodic array of obstacles and in a quasi-one-dimensional corrugated channel comprised of periodically arrayed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-28 Sudipta Pattanayak , Rakesh Das , Manoranjan Kumar , Shradha Mishra

Rod-shaped particles embedded in certain matrices have been reported to exhibit an increase in their center of mass diffusivity upon increasing the matrix density. This increase has been considered to be caused by a kinetic constraint in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-03 Fumiaki Nakai , Martin Kröger , Takato Ishida , Takashi Uneyama , Yuya Doi , Yuichi Masubuchi

Recently, there has been much interest in activity-induced phase separations in concentrated suspensions of "active Brownian particles" (ABPs), self-propelled spherical particles whose direction of motion relaxes through thermal rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-13 Joakim Stenhammar , Davide Marenduzzo , Rosalind J. Allen , Michael E. Cates

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 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

Off-lattice active Brownian particles form clusters and undergo phase separation even in the absence of attractions or velocity-alignment mechanisms. Arguments that explain this phenomenon appeal only to the ability of particles to move…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-28 Stephen Whitelam , Katherine Klymko , Dibyendu Mandal

Motility and nonreciprocity are two primary mechanisms for self-organization in active matter. In a recent study [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148301 (2023)], we explored their joint influence in a minimal model of two-species quorum-sensing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-15 Yu Duan , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian , Benoît Mahault

Active particles which are self-propelled by converting energy into mechanical motion represent an expanding research realm in physics and chemistry. For micron-sized particles moving in a liquid ("microswimmers"), most of the basic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-19 Hartmut Löwen

We present the Brownian dynamics simulation of active colloidal suspension in two dimensions, where the self-propulsion speed of a colloid is regulated according to the local density sensed by it. The role of concentration-dependent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-29 Francis Jose , Shalabh K. Anand , Sunil P. Singh

Active work measures how far the local self-forcing of active particles translates into real motion. Using Population Monte Carlo methods, we investigate large deviations in the active work for repulsive active Brownian disks. Minimizing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-12 Takahiro Nemoto , Étienne Fodor , Michael E. Cates , Robert L. Jack , Julien Tailleur

We investigate the phase behavior and kinetics of a monodisperse mixture of active (\textit{i.e.}, self-propelled) and passive isometric Brownian particles through Brownian dynamics simulations and theory. As in a purely active system,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-08 Joakim Stenhammar , Raphael Wittkowski , Davide Marenduzzo , Michael E. Cates

Observing spontaneous velocity ordering or flocking during motility induced phase separation (MIPS) in a system of spherical active Brownian particles without alignment interaction is challenging. We take up this problem by performing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-08 Subhajit Paul , Suman Majumder , Wolfhard Janke

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) are termed out to be a successful way of modeling the moving microorganism on the substrate. In recent studies, it is shown that such organisms can sense the characteristics of the substrate. Motivated by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-31 Pawan Kumar Mishra , Ajeya Krishna , Shradha Mishra

In the present work, with the intent of exploring the out-of-equilibrium polymerization of active patchy particles in linear chains, we study a suspension of active bivalent Brownian particles (ABBPs). At all studied temperatures and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-19 Caterina Landi , John Russo , Francesco Sciortino , Chantal Valeriani

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