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There has been recent interest in the relaxational modes of small-scale fully connected systems of aligning self-propelled particles (Spera et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 132}: 078301 (2024)). We revisit the classical connection between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Tara Steinhöfel , Horst-Holger Boltz , Thomas Ihle

We predict spontaneous nematic order in an ensemble of active force generators with elastic interactions as a minimal model for early nematic alignment of short stress fibers in non-motile, adhered cells. Mean-field theory is formally…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Benjamin M. Friedrich , Samuel A. Safran

The asymptotic analysis of kinetic models describing the behavior of particles interacting through alignment is performed. We will analyze the asymptotic regime corresponding to large alignment frequency where the alignment effects are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-16 M. Bostan , J. A. Carrillo

We present a simple model of alignment of a large number of rigid bodies (modeled by rotation matrices) subject to internal rotational noise. The numerical simulations exhibit a phenomenon of first order phase transition with respect the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Amic Frouvelle

We study a Vicsek-style model of self-propelled particles where ferromagnetic and nematic alignment compete in both the usual "metric" version and in the "metric-free" case where a particle interacts with its Voronoi neighbors. We show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-05 Sandrine Ngo , Francesco Ginelli , Hugues Chaté

Recently, we proposed a self-propelled particle model with competing alignment interactions: nearby particles tend to align their velocities whereas they anti-align their direction of motion with particles which are further away [R.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Großmann , Pawel Romanczuk , Markus Bär , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Non-equilibrium active matter made up of self-driven particles with short-range repulsive interactions is a useful minimal system to study active matter as the system exhibits collective motion and nonequilibrium order-disorder transitions.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-06 Hui-Shun Kuan , Robert Blackwell , Loren E. Hough , Matthew A. Glaser , M. D. Betterton

We investigate the interplay between chemotaxis and alignment interactions in active rod-like particles, such as E. coli and Janus rods. Starting from a discrete model of self-propelled rods with chemotactic responses, we employ a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-24 Shun Sakurai , Nariya Uchida

We propose a large-scale scaling viewpoint for deriving mesoscopic dynamics from interacting particle systems and apply it to the Cucker--Smale flocking model. In contrast with the classical mean-field regime leading to the Vlasov-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Ruicheng Cheng , Seung-Yeal Ha , Jaemoon Lee , Zhenfu Wang

We introduce a system of self-propelled agents (active Brownian particles) with velocity alignment in two spatial dimensions and derive a mean-field theory from the microscopic dynamics via a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation and a moment…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-26 Pawel Romanczuk , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

A nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation is obtained in the continuous limit of a one-dimensional lattice with an energy landscape of wells and barriers. Interaction is possible among particles in the same energy well. A parameter $\gamma$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 G. Suárez , M. Hoyuelos , H. Mártin

Vertically vibrated rod-shaped granular materials confined to quasi-2D containers self organize into distinct patterns. We find, consistent with theory and simulation, a density dependent isotropic-nematic transition. Along the walls, rods…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Galanis , D. Harries , D. L. Sackett , W. Losert , R. Nossal

Using tools of nonequilibirum mechanics, we study a model of self-propelled hard rods on a substrate in two dimensions to quantify the interplay of self-propulsion and excluded-volume effects. We derive of a Smoluchowski equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Aparna Baskaran , M. Cristina Marchetti

We consider the overdamped dynamics of a paradigmatic long-range system of particles residing on the sites of a one-dimensional lattice, in the presence of thermal noise. The internal degree of freedom of each particle is a periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Shamik Gupta , Alessandro Campa , Stefano Ruffo

A new type of kinetic models with non-instantaneous binary collisions is considered. Collisions are described by a transport process in the joint state space of a pair of particles. The interactions are of alignment type, where the states…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Laura Kanzler , Christian Schmeiser , Veronica Tora

In this work we present a two-dimensional kinetic traffic model which takes into account speed changes both when vehicles interact along the road lanes and when they change lane. Assuming that lane changes are less frequent than…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Michael Herty , Andrea Tosin , Giuseppe Visconti , Mattia Zanella

We have previously shown an analysis of our dimer model in the over-damped regime to show directed transport in equilibrium. Here we analyze the full model with inertial terms present to establish the same result. First we derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-16 A. Bhattacharyay

A relativistic kinetic Fokker-Planck equation that has been recently proposed in the physical literature is studied. It is shown that, in contrast to other existing relativistic models, the one considered in this paper is invariant under…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-16 José Antonio Alcántara Félix , Simone Calogero

We consider the effect of non-reciprocity in a binary mixture of self-propelled particles with anti-aligning interactions, where a particle of type A reacts differently to a particle of type B than vice versa. Starting from a well-known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-03 Jakob Mihatsch , Thomas Ihle

We develop a mean-field approach for multicomponent stochastic spatially extended systems and use it to obtain a multivariate nonlinear self-consistent Fokker-Planck equation defining the probability density of the state of the system,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-16 Svetlana E. Kurushina , Valerii V. Maximov , Yurii M. Romanovskii