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We study an interacting box-particle system on a one-dimensional periodic ring involving two species of particles $A$ and $B$. In this model, from a randomly chosen site, a particle of species $A$ can hop to its right neighbor with a rate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-06 Bijoy Daga

We numerically study the dynamics and the phases of self-propelled disk-shaped particles of different sizes with soft repulsive potential in two dimensions. Size diversity is introduced by the polydispersity index (PDI) $\epsilon$, which is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-28 Sameer Kumar , Jay Prakash Singh , Debaprasad Giri , Shradha Mishra

We consider the ground states of binary atomic boson-boson and fermion-fermion mixtures confined in one-dimensional box potentials by simulating the systems using few-body models with delta-function interactions and many-body models with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-12-18 Bishal Parajuli , Daniel Pecak , Chih-Chun Chien

We further study the stochastic model discussed in Ref.[2] in which positive and negative particles diffuse in an asymmetric, CP invariant way on a ring. The positive particles hop clockwise, the negative counter-clockwise and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter F. Arndt , Vladimir Rittenberg

We introduce and theoretically investigate a minimal particle-based model for a new class of active matter where particles exhibit directional, volume-conserving division in confinement while interacting sterically, mimicking cells in early…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-01 Samantha R. Lish , Lukas Hupe , Ramin Golestanian , Philip Bittihn

A topic of intense current investigation pursues the question how the highly crowded environment of biological cells affects the dynamic properties of passively diffusing particles. Motivated by recent experiments we report results of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-28 Surya K. Ghosh , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Denis S. Grebenkov , Ralf Metzler

The classical differential mixing rules are assumed to be independent effective-medium approaches, applicable to certain classes of systems. In the present work, the inconsistency of differential models for macroscopically homogeneous and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-20 A. K. Semenov

Dislocation-assisted phase separation processes in binary systems subjected to irradiation effect are studied analytically and numerically. Irradiation is described by athermal atomic mixing in the form of ballistic flux with spatially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. O. Kharchenko , O. M. Schokotova , A. I. Bashtova , I. O. Lysenko

We calculate the exact stationary distribution of the one-dimensional zero-range process with open boundaries for arbitrary bulk and boundary hopping rates. When such a distribution exists, the steady state has no correlations between sites…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Levine , D. Mukamel , G. M. Schutz

We study the collective behavior of binary mixture of self-propelled particles. Particles moves along their heading direction with {\it variable speed} and interact through short range alignment interaction. A variable speed parameter…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-22 Jay Prakash Singh , Shradha Mishra

Experimental studies of systems containing active proteins that undergo conformational changes driven by catalytic chemical reactions have shown that the diffusion coefficients of passive tracer particles and active molecules are larger…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-27 Matthew Dennison , Raymond Kapral , Holger Stark

We introduce and study a model of active Brownian motion with multiplicative noise describing fluctuations in the self-propulsion or activity. We find that the standard picture of density accumulation in slow regions is qualitatively…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-29 Benoît Mahault , Prakhar Godara , Ramin Golestanian

We introduce a new model of aggregation of particles where in addition to diffusion and aggregation upon contact, a single unit of mass can dissociate from a conglomerate. This dissociation move conserves the total mass and leads to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 Supriya Krishnamurthy , Satya N. Majumdar , Mustansir Barma

In active systems, whose constituents have non-equilibrium dynamics at local level, fluid-fluid phase separation is widely observed. Examples include the formation of membraneless organelles within cells; the clustering of self-propelled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-11 M. E. Cates , C. Nardini

We investigate the collective dynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) subjected to a steady two-dimensional four-roll-mill flow using numerical simulations. By varying the packing fraction ($\phi$), we uncover a novel flow-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Soni D. Prajapati , Kusum Seervi , Akshay Bhatnagar , Anupam Gupta

We examine the mobility and velocity fluctuations of a driven particle moving through an active matter bath of self-mobile disks for varied density or area coverage and varied activity. We show that the driven particle mobility can exhibit…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-01 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Recent experimental realizations of liquid-liquid phase separation of active liquid crystals have offered an insight into the interaction between phase separation, ubiquitous in soft matter and biology, and chaotic active flows. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-23 Paarth Gulati , Fernando Caballero , M. Cristina Marchetti

Polymer-like structures are ubiquitous in nature and synthetic materials. Their configurational and migration properties are often affected by crowded environments leading to non-thermal fluctuations. Here, we study an ideal Rouse chain in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-12 Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu , Andrea Gambassi , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Abhinav Sharma

Based upon recent experiments in which Janus particles are made into active swimmers by illuminating them with laser light, we explore the effect of applying a light pattern on the sample, thereby creating activity inducing zones or active…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 Jaffar Hasnain , Georg Menzl , Swetlana Jungblut , Christoph Dellago

Recent results have shown the appearance of induced cooperative motions called dynamic heterogeneity during the isomerization of diluted azobenzene molecules in a host glass-former. In this paper we raise the issue of the coupling between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-19 Victor Teboul , Jean-Baptiste Accary