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Using Brownian dynamics simulations, the motion of active Brownian particles (ABPs) in the presence of fuel (or 'food') sources is studied. It is an established fact that within confined stationary systems, the activity of ABPs generates…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Holger Merlitz , Hidde Derk Vuijk , Rene Wittmann , Abhinav Sharma , Jens-Uwe Sommer

The mechanical tension at the interface of motility-induced phase separating active Brownian particles (ABPs) remains an open question. Here, we determine the surface tension by analyzing the spatial distribution of forces at the molecular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-09 Bal Krishan

Homogeneous active Brownian particle (ABP) systems with purely repulsive interactions are considered to have simple phase behavior, but various physical attributes of active entities can lead to variation in the collective dynamics. Recent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-03 Monika Sanoria , Raghunath Chelakkot , Amitabha Nandi

The pressure of suspensions of self-propelled objects is studied theoretically and by simulation of spherical active Brownian particles (ABP). We show that for certain geometries, the mechanical pressure as force/area of a confined systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-03 Roland G. Winkler , Adam Wysocki , Gerhard Gompper

We study a system of active particles with soft repulsive interactions that lead to an active cluster-crystal phase in two dimensions. We use two different modelizations of the active force - Active Brownian particles (ABP) and…

Active transport of biomolecular condensates and cell migration in collectives are fundamental to development, homeostasis, and processes such as cancer progression, wound healing, and infection response. Yet how these assemblies are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-24 Hossein Vahid , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Abhinav Sharma

We investigate motility-induced phase separation of active Brownian particles, which are modeled as purely repulsive spheres that move due to a constant swim force with freely diffusing orientation. We develop on the basis of power…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-13 Sophie Hermann , Philip Krinninger , Daniel de las Heras , Matthias Schmidt

We present a mode-coupling theory (MCT) for the high-density dynamics of two-dimensional spherical active Brownian particles (ABP). The theory is based on the integration-through-transients (ITT) formalism and hence provides a starting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-20 Alexander Liluashvili , Jonathan Onody , Thomas Voigtmann

We set up a mesoscopic theory for interacting Brownian particles embedded in a nonequilibrium environment, starting from the microscopic interacting many-body theory. Using nonequilibrium linear response theory, we characterize the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Stefano Steffenoni , Klaus Kroy , Gianmaria Falasco

In this work we study a two-dimensional system composed by Active Brownian Particles (ABPs) interacting via a repulsive potential with two-length-scales, a soft shell and a hard-core. Depending on the ratio between the strength of the soft…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-19 Jose Martin-Roca , Raul Martinez , Fernando Martinez-Pedrero , Jorge Ramirez , Chantal Valeriani

We consider a mixture of passive (i.e., Brownian) and active (e.g., bacterial or colloidal swimmers) particles, and analyze the stability conditions of either uniformly mixed or phase segregated steady states consisting of phases enriched…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-21 Alexander Y. Grosberg , Jean-François Joanny

Active Brownian Particles (ABPs) transmit a swim pressure $\Pi^{swim}=n\zeta D^{swim}$ to the container boundaries, where $\zeta$ is the drag coefficient, $D^{swim}$ is the swim diffusivity and $n$ is the uniform bulk number density far…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-14 Wen Yan , John F. Brady

We present a hydrodynamic theory for systems of dipolar active Brownian particles which, in the regime of weak dipolar coupling, predicts the onset of motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), consistent with Brownian dynamics (BD)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-29 Elena Sesé-Sansa , Guo-Jun Liao , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), the phenomenon in which purely repulsive active particles undergo a liquid-gas phase separation, is among the simplest and most widely studied examples of a nonequilibrium phase transition. Here, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-11 Ahmad K. Omar , Katherine Klymko , Trevor GrandPre , Phillip L. Geissler

Motility-induced wall aggregation of active Brownian particles (ABPs) is a well-studied phenomenon. Here, we study the aggregation of ABPs on porous walls, which allows the particles to penetrate through at large motility. We show that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-13 Suchismita Das , Raghunath Chelakkot

The stress of a fluid on a confining wall is given by the mechanical wall forces, independent of the nature of the fluid being passive or active. At thermal equilibrium, an equation of state exists and stress is likewise obtained from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-03 Shibananda Das , Gerhard Gompper , Roland G. Winkler

We study the motility-induced phase separation of active particles driven through the interconversion of two chemical species controlled by ideal reservoirs (chemiostats). As a consequence, the propulsion speed is non-constant and depends…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Andreas Fischer , Arkya Chatterjee , Thomas Speck

We present a comprehensive computational study of the collective behavior emerging from the competition between self-propulsion, excluded volume interactions and velocity-alignment in a two-dimensionnal model of active particles. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-08 Aitor Martín-Gómez , Demian Levis , Albert Díaz-Guilera , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Active Brownian particles display self-propelled movement, which can be modelled as arising from a one-body force. Although their interparticle interactions are purely repulsive, for strong self propulsion the swimmers phase separate into…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-25 Sophie Hermann , Daniel de las Heras , Matthias Schmidt

The active Brownian particle (ABP) model describes a swimmer, synthetic or living, whose direction of swimming is a Brownian motion. The swimming is due to a propulsion force, and the fluctuations are typically thermal in origin. We present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-18 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Jiajia Guo