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We study the collective motion of Janus particles in a temperature or concentration gradient. Because of the torque exerted by an external or self-generated field, the particles align their axis on this gradient. In a swarm of self-driven…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-15 Thomas Bickel , Guillermo Zecua , Alois Würger

We study the first-passage-time (FPT) properties of an active Brownian particle under stochastic resetting to its initial configuration, comprising its position and orientation, to reach an absorbing wall in two dimensions. Coupling a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-04 Yanis Baouche , Christina Kurzthaler

We model learning in a continuous-time Brownian setting where there is prior ambiguity. The associated model of preference values robustness and is time-consistent. It is applied to study optimal learning when the choice between actions can…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2019-03-06 Larry G. Epstein , Shaolin Ji

Shortcut engineering consists of a class of approaches to rapidly manipulate physical systems by means of specially designed external controls. In this Letter, we apply these approaches to run-and-tumble particles, which are designed to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-13 Adam G. Frim , Michael R. DeWeese

We discuss biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium self-propelled particle models, in which the particles interact with their neighbours by choosing at each time step the local average direction of motion. We summarize some of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andras Czirok , Tamas Vicsek

In this work, we study a system of passive Brownian (non-self-propelled) particles in two dimensions, interacting only through a social-like force (velocity alignment in this case) that resembles Kuramoto's coupling among phase oscillators.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-13 Francisco J. Sevilla , Victor Dossetti , Alexandro Heiblum-Robles

The dynamics of self-propelled colloidal particles are strongly influenced by their environment through hydrodynamic and, in many cases, chemical interactions. We develop a theoretical framework to describe the motion of confined active…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-29 Günther Turk , Rajesh Singh , Howard A. Stone

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

We investigate how the competing presence of a nonuniform motility landscape and an external confining field affects the properties of active particles. We employ the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP) model with a periodic swim…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-02 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen

Many biological microswimmers are capable of chemotaxis, i.e., they can sense an ambient chemical gradient and adjust their mechanism of motility to move towards or away from the source of the gradient. Synthetic active colloids endowed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-18 Viviana Mancuso , Mihail N. Popescu , William E. Uspal

The rise of process data availability has recently led to the development of data-driven learning approaches. However, most of these approaches restrict the use of the learned model to predict the future of ongoing process executions. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Stefano Branchi , Chiara Di Francescomarino , Chiara Ghidini , David Massimo , Francesco Ricci , Massimiliano Ronzani

We study the two-dimensional overdamped motion of an active particle whose orientational dynamics is subject to fractional Brownian noise, whereas its position is affected by self-propulsion and Brownian fluctuations. From a Langevin-like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-21 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Francisco J. Sevilla

We have performed a case study investigating a recently proposed scheme to obtain an effective pair potential for active Brownian particles [Farage et al., Phys. Rev. E 91, 042310 (2015)]. Applying this scheme to the Lennard-Jones…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-05 Markus Rein , Thomas Speck

Combining experiments on active colloids, whose propulsion velocity can be controlled via a feedback loop, and theory of active Brownian motion, we explore the dynamics of an overdamped active particle with a motility that depends…

Many active particles are embedded in environments that exhibit viscoelastic properties. An important class of such media lacks a single characteristic relaxation timescale when subjected to a time-dependent stress. Rather, the stress…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 David Santiago Quevedo , Monica Conte , Marjolein Dijkstra , Cristiane Morais Smith

We report a computational strategy to obtain the charges of individual dielectric particles from experimental observation of their interactions as a function of time. This strategy uses evolutionary optimization to minimize the difference…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-01 Xikai Jiang , Jiyuan Li , Victor Lee , Heinrich M. Jaeger , Olle G. Heinonen , Juan J. de Pablo

Smart active particles can acquire some limited knowledge of the fluid environment from simple mechanical cues and exert a control on their preferred steering direction. Their goal is to learn the best way to navigate by exploiting the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-02 Simona Colabrese , Kristian Gustavsson , Antonio Celani , Luca Biferale

It has been experimentally shown that Brownian motion and active forward drift controlled by quorum sensing is sufficient to produce clustering behavior in orientable Janus particles. This paper explores the group formation and cohesion of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-24 Griffin Smith , Nathan Stouffer , Scott G. McCalla , Dominique P. Zosso

Brownian transport of self-propelled overdamped microswimmers (like Janus particles) in a two-dimensional periodically compartmentalized channel is numerically investigated for different compartment geometries, boundary collisional…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Pulak Kumar Ghosh , Vyacheslav R. Misko , Fabio Marchesoni , Franco Nori

Individual self-propelled colloidal particles, like active Brownian particles (ABP) or run-and-tumble swimmers (RT), exhibit characteristic and well-known motion patterns. However, their interaction with obstacles remains an open and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-17 Venkata Manikantha Sai Ganesh Tanuku , Peter Vogel , Thomas Palberg , Ivo Buttinoni