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We investigate the emergent interactions between two active Brownian particles coupled by an attractive harmonic potential and in contact with a thermal reservoir. By analyzing the stationary distribution of their separation, we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ritwick Sarkar , Sreya Chatterjee , Urna Basu

Phase separation, the spontaneous segregation of density, is a ubiquitous phenomenon observed across diverse physical and biological systems. Within a crowd of motile elements, active phase separation emerges from the interplay of activity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-26 Kyosuke Adachi

We study a system of interacting active particles, propelled by colored noises, characterized by an activity time {\tau}, and confined by a single-well anharmonic potential. We assume pair-wise repulsive forces among particles, modelling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-31 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi

Active-particle suspensions exhibit distinct polarization-density patterns in activity landscapes, even without anisotropic particle interactions. Such polarization without alignment forces is at work in motility-induced phase separation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Nicola Andreas Söker , Sven Auschra , Viktor Holubec , Klaus Kroy , Frank Cichos

The effect of concentration-dependent switching of the non-equilibrium depletion interaction between obstacles in a gas flow of interacting Brownian particles is presented. When increasing bath fraction exceeds half-filling, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-14 O. V. Kliushnychenko , S. P. Lukyanets

We present an exact analytical study of an Active Brownian Particle (ABP) subject to both position and orientation stochastic resetting in a two-dimensional harmonic trap. Utilizing a Fokker-Planck-based renewal approach, we derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-21 Amir Shee

We explore phase separation and kinetic arrest in a model active colloidal system consisting of self-propelled, hard-core particles with nonconvex shapes. The passive limit of the model, namely cross-shaped particles on a square lattice,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-11 Carl Merrigan , Kabir Ramola , Rakesh Chatterjee , Nimrod Segall , Yair Shokef , Bulbul Chakraborty

Understanding how microscopic motility shapes emergent collective behaviors is a challenging task in active matter, especially when self-propulsion is regulated by external cues or via quorum-sensing interactions. To address this problem,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Alberto Dinelli , Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu

Studies of active matter, from molecular assemblies to animal groups, have revealed two broad classes of behavior: a tendency to align yields orientational order and collective motion, whereas particle repulsion leads to self-trapping and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-23 Jie Zhang , Ricard Alert , Jing Yan , Ned S. Wingreen , Steve Granick

The mean first passage time (MFPT) is a key metric for understanding transport, search, and escape processes in stochastic systems. While well characterized for passive Brownian particles, its behavior in active systems-such as active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-22 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Zhiwei Peng

In living and engineered systems of active particles, self-propulsion induces an unjamming transition from a solid to a fluid phase and phase separation between a gas and a liquid-like phase. We demonstrate an interplay between these two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-20 Jing Yang , Ran Ni , Massimo Pica Ciamarra

Active matter has been intensely studied for its wealth of intriguing properties such as collective motion, motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), and giant fluctuations away from criticality. However, the precise connection of active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-17 Juliane U. Klamser , Sebastian C. Kapfer , Werner Krauth

A crowd of nonequilibrium entities can show phase transition behaviors that are prohibited in conventional equilibrium setups. An interesting question is whether similar activity-driven phase transitions also occur in pure quantum systems.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-28 Kyosuke Adachi , Kazuaki Takasan , Kyogo Kawaguchi

We consider a continuum model for motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) of active Brownian particles [J. Chem. Phys. 142, 224149 (2015)]. Using a recently introduced perturbative analysis [Phys. Rev. E 98, 020604(R) (2018)], we show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-02 Lisa Rapp , Fabian Bergmann , Walter Zimmermann

A dilute suspension of active Brownian particles in a dense compressible viscoelastic fluid, forms a natural setting to study the emergence of nonreciprocity during a dynamical phase transition. At these densities, the transport of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-14 Jyoti Prasad Banerjee , Rituparno Mandal , Deb Sankar Banerjee , Shashi Thutupalli , Madan Rao

We study the noise-driven escape of active Brownian particles (ABPs) and run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) from confining potentials. In the small noise limit, we provide an exact expression for the escape rate in term of a variational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-03 Eric Woillez , Yongfeng Zhao , Yariv Kafri , Vivien Lecomte , Julien Tailleur

Self-propulsion allows living systems to display unusual collective behavior. Unlike passive systems in thermal equilibrium, active matter systems are not constrained by conventional thermodynamic laws. A question arises however as to what…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-18 Sho C. Takatori , John F. Brady

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

We investigate the behavior of active Brownian particles (ABP) within a temporal complex network framework approach. We focused on the node degree distribution, average path length, and average clustering coefficient across the P\'eclet…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Italo Salas , Francisca Guzmán-Lastra , Denisse Pastén , Ariel Norambuena

Recent advances in micro- and nano-technologies allow the construction of complex active systems from biological and synthetic materials. An interesting example is active vesicles, which consist of a membrane enclosing self-propelled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Priyanka Iyer , Gerhard Gompper , Dmitry A. Fedosov