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As a result of nonequilibrium forces, purely repulsive self-propelled particles undergo macrophase separation between a dense and a dilute phase. We present a thorough study of the ordering kinetics of such motility-induced phase separation…

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…

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We study mixtures of self-propelled and passive rod-like particles in two dimensions using Brownian dynamics simulations. The simulations demonstrate that the two species spontaneously segregate to generate a rich array of dynamical domain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-13 Samuel R. McCandlish , Aparna Baskaran , Michael F. Hagan

Colloidal probes immersed in an active bath have been found to behave like active particles themselves. Here, we use coarse-grained simulations to investigate the mechanisms behind this behavior. We find that the active motion of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-18 Jeanine Shea , Gerhard Jung , Friederike Schmid

Motivated by the anomalous diffusion observed in clusters of active Brownian particles (ABPs), where the center-of-mass diffusion coefficient scales as $D\sim N^{-1/2}$ with respect to the number $N$ of particles in the cluster, we derive a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-07 Daniela Moretti , Pasquale Digregorio , Giuseppe Gonnella , Antonio Suma

Living cells are known to generate non-Gaussian active fluctuations significantly larger than thermal fluctuations owing to various active processes. Understanding the effect of these active fluctuations on various physicochemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-26 Govind Paneru , Jin Tae Park , Hyuk Kyu Pak

We consider the rich variety of collective motion patterns emerging when aligning active particles move in the presence of randomly distributed obstacles - representing quenched noise in two dimensions. In order to get insight into the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-21 Danial Vahabli , Tamas Vicsek

Living materials such as biological tissues or bacterial colonies are collections of heterogeneous entities of different sizes, capable of autonomous motion, and often capable of cooperating. Such a degree of complexity brings to collective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-24 Matteo Paoluzzi , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We study the active work fluctuations of an active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle in the presence of a confining harmonic potential. We tackle the problem analytically both for stationary and generic uncorrelated initial states. Our results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-27 Massimiliano Semeraro , Giuseppe Gonnella , Antonio Suma , Marco Zamparo

Active work measures how far the local self-forcing of active particles translates into real motion. Using Population Monte Carlo methods, we investigate large deviations in the active work for repulsive active Brownian disks. Minimizing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-12 Takahiro Nemoto , Étienne Fodor , Michael E. Cates , Robert L. Jack , Julien Tailleur

The fluctuation-dissipation theorem is a central theorem in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics by which the evolution of velocity fluctuations of the Brownian particle under a fluctuating environment is intimately related to its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Tai-Hung Wu , Da-Shin Lee

Driven suspensions, where energy is input at a particle scale, are a framework for understanding general principles of out-of-equilibrium organization. A large number of simple interacting units can give rise to non-trivial structure and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-23 Pamud Akalanka Bethmage , Ryker Fish , Brennan Sprinkle , Michelle M. Driscoll

We introduce a kinetic Monte-Carlo model for self-propelled hard disks to capture with minimal ingredients the interplay between thermal fluctuations, excluded volume and self-propulsion in large assemblies of active particles. We analyze…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-16 Demian Levis , Ludovic Berthier

Based on Brownian Dynamics (BD) simulations, we study the dynamical self-assembly of active Brownian particles with dipole-dipole interactions, stemming from a permanent point dipole at the particle center. The propulsion direction of each…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Guo-Jun Liao , Carol K. Hall , Sabine H. L. Klapp

We characterize the dynamic non-equilibrium steady state behavior of active particles using density fluctuations in the system. We analyze the effective local density around a particle in the steady state and numerically calculate its mean,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-22 Jayam Joshi , Pawan Kumar Mishra , Shradha Mishra

Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy from their environment and converting it into directed motion.…

Examples of self propulsion in strongly fluctuating environment is abound in nature, e.g., molecular motors and pumps operating in living cells. Starting from Langevin equation of motion, we develop a fluctuating thermodynamic description…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-20 Chandrima Ganguly , Debasish Chaudhuri

We derive a general lower bound on distributions of entropy production in interacting active matter systems. The bound is tight in the limit that interparticle correlations are small and short-ranged, which we explore in four canonical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Trevor GrandPre , Katherine Klymko , Kranthi K. Mandadapu , David T. Limmer

The nature of the transition to collective motion in assemblies of aligning self-propelled particles remains a long-standing matter of debate. In this article, we focus on dry active matter and show that weak fluctuations suffice to…