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Active matter systems are able to exhibit emergent non-equilibrium states due to activity-induced effective interactions between the active particles. Here we study the aggregation and dynamical behavior of active rotating particles,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-25 Juan L. Aragones , Joshua P. Steimel , Alfredo Alexander-Katz

Controlled activity of active entities interacting with a passive environment can generate emergent system-level phenomena, positioning such systems as promising platforms for potential downstream applications in targeted drug delivery,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-07 Thomas Jacob , Siddhant Mohapatra , Rajalingam A , Sam Mathew , Pallab Sinha Mahapatra

Dense active systems are widespread in nature, examples range from bacterial colonies to biological tissues. Dense clusters of active particles can be obtained by increasing the packing fraction of the system or taking advantage of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-13 Matteo Paoluzzi , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

The collective behavior of active semiflexible filaments is studied with a model of tangentially driven self-propelled worm-like chains. The combination of excluded-volume interactions and self-propulsion leads to several distinct dynamic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Ozer Duman , Rolf E. Isele-Holder , Jens Elgeti , Gerhard Gompper

We consider a two-dimensional system of elongated particles driven over a random quenched disorder landscape. For varied pinning site density, external drive magnitude, and particle elongation, we find a wide variety of dynamic phases,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 A. Libal , S. Stepanov , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Meso-scale turbulence was originally observed experimentally in various suspensions of swimming bacteria, as well as in the collective motion of active colloids. The corresponding large-scale dynamical patterns were reproduced in a simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-30 Vasco M. Worlitzer , Gil Ariel , Avraham Be'er , Holger Stark , Markus Bär , Sebastian Heidenreich

Proliferation and motility are ubiquitous drivers of activity in biological systems. Here, we study a dense binary mixture of motile and proliferating particles with exclusively repulsive interactions, where homeostasis in the proliferating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-11 Lukas Hupe , Joanna M. Materska , David Zwicker , Ramin Golestanian , Bartlomiej Waclaw , Philip Bittihn

We numerically examine the transport of active run-and-tumble particles driven with a drift force over random disordered landscapes comprised of fixed obstacles. For increasing run lengths, the net particle transport initially increases…

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

We investigate the transport of interacting active run-and-tumble particles moving under an external drift force through a periodic array of obstacles for increasing drive amplitudes. For high activity where the system forms a motility…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

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

To study the interplay of jamming, cluster formation, and motility-induced phase separation in the zero temperature limit in two dimensions, we consider a simple model system consisting of a bidisperse mixture of disks that are only subject…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-16 Michael Schmiedeberg

The emergence of clustering and coarsening in crowded ensembles of self-propelled agents is studied using a lattice model in one-dimension. The persistent exclusion process, where particles move at directions that change randomly at a low…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-24 Nestor Sepulveda , Rodrigo Soto

Field control provides a practical route to programmable active matter, yet how weak fields modify non-equilibrium coexistence and interfaces remains unclear. To address this, we study a minimal flocking model of active Potts particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-30 Mintu Karmakar , Matthieu Mangeat , Swarnajit Chatterjee , Heiko Rieger , Raja Paul

Dynamical clustering represents a characteristic feature of active matter consisting of self-propelled agents that convert energy from the environment into mechanical motion. At the micron scale, typical of overdamped dynamics, particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Lorenzo Caprini , Davide Breoni , Anton Ldov , Christian Scholz , Hartmut Löwen

The homogeneous partly pinned fluid systems are simple models of a fluid confined in a disordered porous matrix obtained by arresting randomly chosen particles in a one-component bulk fluid or one of the two components of a binary mixture.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-07 Vincent Krakoviack

Collective and directed motility or swarming is an emergent phenomenon displayed by many self-organized assemblies of active biological matter such as clusters of embryonic cells during tissue development, cancerous cells during tumor…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 Katherine Copenhagen , Ajay Gopinathan

There are rich emergent phase behaviors in non-equilibrium active systems. Flocking and clustering are two representative dynamic phases. The relationship between these two phases is still unclear. In the paper, we numerically investigate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-09 Lu Chen , Bokai Zhang , Z. C. Tu

We model collective disk flow though a square array of obstacles as the flow direction is changed relative to the symmetry directions of the array. At lower disk densities there is no clogging for any driving direction, but as the disk…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-22 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Active systems, or active matter, are self-driven systems which live, or function, far from equilibrium - a paradigmatic example which we focus on here is provided by a suspension of self-motile particles. Active systems are far from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Giuseppe Gonnella , Davide Marenduzzo , Antonio Suma , Adriano Tiribocchi

Recent studies of the phase diagram for spherical, purely repulsive, active particles established the existence of a transition from a liquid-like to a solid-like phase analogous to the one observed in colloidal systems at thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-30 Lorenzo Caprini , Claudio Maggi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Matteo Paoluzzi , Andrea Puglisi