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Via molecular dynamics simulations we have studied kinetics of vapor-"solid" phase transition in an active matter model in which self-propulsion is introduced via the well-known Vicsek rule. The overall density of the particles is chosen in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-05 Subhajit Paul , Arabinda Bera , Subir K. Das

The aim of this paper is to perform a deeper geometric analysis of problems appearing in dynamics of affinely rigid bodies. First of all we present a geometric interpretation of the polar and two-polar decomposition of affine motion. Later…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 Jan Jerzy Sławianowski , Barbara Gołubowska , Vasyl Kovalchuk

The late-time equilibrium behavior of generic interacting models is determined by the coupled hydrodynamic equations associated with the globally conserved quantities. In the presence of an external time-dependent drive, non-integrable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-10 Haoyu Guo , Rohit Mukherjee , Debanjan Chowdhury

One of the most well known features of active matter is the tendencey of self-propelled particles to undergo system-wide collective motion. With low enough rotational noise or high enough global density, these systems spontaneously break…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-21 Caleb J. Anderson Olivier Dauchot , Alberto Fernandez-Nieves

We present a comprehensive study of Vicsek-style self-propelled particle models in two and three space dimensions. The onset of collective motion in such stochastic models with only local alignment interactions is studied in detail and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hugues Chaté , Francesco Ginelli , Guillaume Grégoire , Franck Raynaud

The dynamics of the electrons for a molecule in solution is coupled to the dynamics of its polarizable environment, i.e., the solvent. To theoretically investigate such electronic dynamics, we have recently developed equations of motion…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-16 Silvio Pipolo , Stefano Corni , Roberto Cammi

Point polarizable molecules at fixed spatial positions have solvable electrostatic properties in classical approximation, the most familiar being the Clausius-Mossotti (CM) formula. This paper generalizes the model and imagines various…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Philip B. Allen

Flocking refers to collective behavior of a large number of interacting entities, where the interactions between discrete individuals produce collective motion on the large scale. We employ an agent-based model to describe the microscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Zhiping Mao , Zhen Li , George Em Karniadakis

In this work, we investigate an individual-based model (IBM) for self-propelled agents interacting locally on a plane. Agents are characterized by their position, the angle determining their direction of motion, and their angular velocity.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Sara Merino-Aceituno , Carmela Moschella

We study a model of flocking in order to describe the transitions during the collective motion of organisms in three dimensions (e.g., birds). In this model the particles representing the organisms are self-propelled, i.e., they move with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Czirok , M. Vicsek , T. Vicsek

We study hysteresis properties of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) under a slowly-varying North Atlantic (20$^{\circ}$N -- 50$^{\circ}$N) freshwater flux forcing in state-of-the-art Global Climate Model (GCM), the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 René M. van Westen , Henk A. Dijkstra

In the current paper Fokker Planck model of random walks has been extended to non conservative cases characterized by explicit dependence of diffusion and energy on time. A given generalization allows describing of such non equilibrium…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-30 Sergey Kamenshchikov

We study a stochastic model of collective motion in which individuals update their orientation through pairwise aligning or anti-aligning copying interactions. We analyze both annealed dynamics, where interaction types are chosen…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-23 Chunming Zheng

Motivated by the observation of non-exponential run-time distributions of bacterial swimmers, we propose a minimal phenomenological model for taxis of active particles whose motion is controlled by an internal clock. The ticking of the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 Luis Gómez Nava , Robert Großmann , Marius Hintsche , Carsten Beta , Fernando Peruani

The correlated motion of flocks is an instance of global order emerging from local interactions. An essential difference with analogous ferromagnetic systems is that flocks are active: animals move relative to each other, dynamically…

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 show that spatial quenched disorder affects polar active matter in ways more complex and far-reaching than believed heretofore. Using simulations of the 2D Vicsek model subjected to random couplings or a disordered scattering field, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yu Duan , Benoît Mahault , Yu-qiang Ma , Xia-qing Shi , Hugues Chaté

Active matter systems encompass both natural and artificially created systems consisting of numerous active particles. These particles actively consume energy to propel themselves or exert mechanical forces, leading to intricate behaviors…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mintu Karmakar

The time evolution of the strength of the Earth's virtual axial dipole moment (VADM) is analyzed by relating it to the Fokker-Planck equation, which describes a random walk with VADM-dependent drift and diffusion coefficients. We…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-07-05 K. Brendel , J. Kuipers , G. T. Barkema , P. Hoyng

The conformational and dynamical properties of isolated semiflexible active polar ring polymers are investigated analytically. A ring is modeled as continuous Gaussian polymer exposed to tangential active forces. The analytical solution of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-22 Christian A. Philipps , Gerhard Gompper , Roland G. Winkler