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The identification of cells and particles based on their transport properties in microfluidic devices is crucial for numerous applications in biology and medicine. Neutrally buoyant particles transported in microfluidic channels, migrate…

We consider percolation and jamming transitions for particulate systems exposed to compression. For the systems built of particles interacting by purely repulsive forces in addition to friction and viscous damping, it is found that these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-28 L. Kovalcinova , A. Goullet , L. Kondic

Generative diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for sampling high-dimensional distributions, yet they typically rely on white gaussian noise and noise schedules to destroy and reconstruct information. Here, we demonstrate that…

It was recently discovered that a crystalline many-body state can exist in the phase space of a closed dynamical system. A phase space crystal can be an anomalous Chern insulator that supports chiral topological transport without breaking…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-08 Ali Emami Kopaei , Krzysztof Sacha , Lingzhen Guo

The motion of self-propelled massive particles through a gaseous medium is dominated by inertial effects. Examples include vibrated granulates, activated complex plasmas and flying insects. However, inertia is usually neglected in standard…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-05 Christian Scholz , Soudeh Jahanshahi , Anton Ldov , Hartmut Löwen

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

Numerous soft materials jam into an amorphous solid at high packing fraction. This non-equilibrium phase transition is best understood in the context of a model system in which particles repel elastically when they overlap. Recently,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-26 Dion J. Koeze , Lingtjien Hong , Abhishek Kumar , Brian P. Tighe

We analytically investigate the diffusive motion inferred from experimental observations of active particles driven by quantum vortices on the surface of superfluid helium. We first study the dynamical behavior of an active particle subject…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yun Jeong Kang , Sung Kyu Seo , Kyungsik Kim

We consider driven many-particle models which have a phase transition between an active and an absorbing phase. Like previously studied models, we have particle conservation, but here we introduce an additional symmetry - when two particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-18 Daniel Hexner , Dov Levine

Modal relaxation dynamics has been observed experimentally to clarify statistical-physical properties of soft-mode turbulence, the spatiotemporal chaos observed in homeotropically aligned nematic liquid crystals. We found a dual structure,…

We study a particle system with hopping (random walk) dynamics on the integer lattice $\mathbb Z^d$. The particles can exist in two states, active or inactive (sleeping); only the former can hop. The dynamics conserves the number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-22 Ronald Dickman , Leonardo T. Rolla , Vladas Sidoravicius

A recent surge of discoveries has sparked significant interest in active systems where a particle moves autonomously in resonance with its self-generated wave field, leading to notable wave-mediated effects including new propulsion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-26 Austin M. Blitstein , Rodolfo R. Rosales , Pedro J. Sáenz

We study an extreme active matter system, which is essentially a dense assembly of athermal, soft and infinitely persistent active particles. Using extensive numerical simulations we obtain jammed configurations of this system in two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-25 M. C. Gandikota , Rituparno Mandal , Pinaki Chaudhuri , Bulbul Chakraborty , Chandan Dasgupta

Using a simple model, we study the fluctuating dynamics of inextensible, semiflexible polar filaments interacting with active and directed force generating centres such as molecular motors. Taking into account the fact that the activity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tanniemola B. Liverpool

A microscopic field theory for crystallization in active systems is proposed which unifies the phase-field-crystal model of freezing with the Toner-Tu theory for self-propelled particles. A wealth of different active crystalline states are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-20 Andreas M. Menzel , Hartmut Löwen

We demonstrate the existence of unconventional rheological and memory properties in systems of soft-deformable particles whose energy depends on their shape, via numerical simulations. At large strains, these systems experience an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-16 Anshuman Pasupalak , Shawn Khuhan Samidurai , Yanwei Li , Yuanjian Zheng , Ran Ni , Massimo Pica Ciamarra

Active matter research focuses on the emergent behavior among interacting self-propelled particles. Unification of seemingly disconnected paradigms -- active phase-separation of repulsive discs and collective motion of self-propelled rods…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-18 Robert Großmann , Igor S. Aranson , Fernando Peruani

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

When very small particles are suspended in a fluid in motion, they tend to follow the flow. How such tracer particles are mixed, transported, and dispersed by turbulent flow has been successfully described by statistical models. Heavy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-21 J. Bec , K. Gustavsson , B. Mehlig

A particle on a substrate supporting a surface acoustic wave can experience horizontal drift excited by the dry friction force. The effect is referred to as vibrational transportation, or as a surface acoustic wave motor. A traditional…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Marina E. Terzi , Vladislav V. Aleshin , Jules Ghesqui`ere , Vincent Tournat