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We report, for the first time, some experimental observations regarding a new type of long range interaction between rigid particles that prevails when they are suspended in an soft elastic gel. A denser particle submerges itself to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-29 Aditi Chakrabarti , Manoj K. Chaudhury

We consider active Brownian particles that intermittently switch between active and inactive states. Such behavior is ubiquitous at all scales, from bacteria to animals and in artificial active systems. We derive exact expressions for key…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-24 Fernando Peruani , Debasish Chaudhuri

It is well established that the long-range component of the thermal van der Waals interaction between two semi-infinite dielectrics becomes short-range when an electrolyte is present between them, this is the well known phenomenon of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-15 Guangle Du , David S. Dean , Bing Miao , Rudolf Podgornik

We study dynamical behaviors of one-dimensional stochastic lattice gases with repulsive interactions whose span can be arbitrary large. We endow the system with a zero-temperature dynamics, so that the hops to empty sites which would have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 P. L. Krapivsky

This chapter investigates some mechanisms behind pattern formation driven by competitive-only or repelling interactions, and explores how these patterns are influenced by different types of particle movement. Despite competition and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-05 Cristóbal López , Eduardo H. Colombo , Emilio Hernández-García , Ricardo Martinez-Garcia

Behavior of the mixture of particles and dimers moving with different jump rates at reconstructed surfaces is described. Collective diffusion coefficient is calculated by the variational approach. Anisotropy of the collective particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-12 Marcin Mińkowski , Magdalena A. Załuska Kotur

Dynamics of systems of structured particles consisting of potentially interacting material points is considered in the framework of classical mechanics. Equations of interaction and motion of structured particles have been derived. The…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 V. M. Somsikov

Synthetic active matter systems, such as active colloids, often have complex interactions, which can be of hydrodynamic, chemical or electrostatic origin and cannot be computed from first principles. Here, we use Stochastic Force Inference…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-26 Jérôme Hem , Alexis Poncet , Pierre Ronceray , Daiki Nishiguchi , Vincent Démery

Actively propelled particles undergoing dissipative collisions are known to develop a state of spatially distributed coherently moving clusters. For densities larger than a characteristic value clusters grow in time and form a stationary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-23 Christoph A. Weber , Florian Thüroff , Erwin Frey

We expand on a recent study of a lattice model of interacting particles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 110601 (2013)]. The adsorption isotherm and equilibrium fluctuations in particle number are discussed as a function of the interaction. Their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Becker , K. Nelissen , B. Cleuren , B. Partoens , C. Van den Broeck

We study how the interplay of dissipation and interactions affects the dynamics of a bosonic many-body quantum system. In the presence of both dissipation and strongly repulsive interactions, observables such as the coherence and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-27 Dario Poletti , Jean-Sebastien Bernier , Antoine Georges , Corinna Kollath

Cells and microorganisms employ dynamic shape changes to enable steering and avoidance for efficient spatial exploration and collective organization. In contrast, active colloids, their synthetic counterparts, currently lack similar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-03 Stefania Ketzetzi , Lorenzo Caprini , Vivien Willems , Laura Alvarez , Hartmut Löwen , Lucio Isa

We study the behaviour of interacting self-propelled particles, whose self-propulsion speed decreases with their local density. By combining direct simulations of the microscopic model with an analysis of the hydrodynamic equations obtained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-25 F. D. C. Farrell , J. Tailleur , D. Marenduzzo , M. C. Marchetti

We consider the dynamics of finite systems of point masses which move along the real line. We suppose the particles interact pairwise and undergo perfectly inelastic collisions when they collide. In particular, once particles collide, they…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Ryan Hynd

We study a system of self-propelled particles which interact with their neighbors via alignment and repulsion. The particle velocities result from self-propulsion and repulsion by close neighbors. The direction of self-propulsion is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-22 Pierre Degond , Giacomo Dimarco , Thi Bich Ngoc Mac , Nan Wang

The dynamical properties and diffusive behavior of a collection of mutually interacting particles are numerically investigated for two types of long-range interparticle interactions: Coulomb-electrostatic and dipole-electrodynamic. It is…

The interaction of drops floating on liquid surfaces is important for many natural processes and industrial applications. In many of the cases, the system is multicomponent, leading to Marangoni flows on the surface. Here we investigate the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-16 Yuan Gao , Yanshen Li

Fluid-mediated interactions between particles in a vibrating fluid lead to both long range attraction and short range repulsion. The resulting patterns include hexagonally ordered micro-crystallites, time-periodic structures, and chaotic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Greg A. Voth , B. Bigger , M. R. Buckley , W. Losert , M. P. Brenner , H. A. Stone , J. P. Gollub

We investigate the collective motion of self-propelled agents in an environment filled with obstacles that are tethered to fixed positions via springs. The active particles are able to modify the environment by moving the obstacles through…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Pierre Degond , Angelika Manhart , Sara Merino-Aceituno , Diane Peurichard , Lorenzo Sala

We use a mesoscopic simulation technique to study the effect of short-ranged inter-particle attraction on the steady-state sedimentation of colloidal suspensions. Attractions increase the average sedimentation velocity $v_s$ compared to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-19 A. Moncho Jordá , A. A. Louis , J. T. Padding