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We numerically demonstrate bidirectional sorting of flocking particles interacting with an array of asymmetric barriers. Each particle aligns with the average swimming direction of its neighbors according to the Vicsek model and experiences…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 Jeffrey A. Drocco , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

Within a simple model of attractive active Brownian particles, we predict flocking behavior and challenge the widespread idea that alignment interactions are necessary to observe this collective phenomenon. Here, we show that even…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-19 Lorenzo Caprini , Hartmut Löwen

We study numerically and analytically a model of self-propelled polar disks on a substrate in two dimensions. The particles interact via isotropic repulsive forces and are subject to rotational noise, but there is no aligning interaction.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-24 Yaouen Fily , M. Cristina Marchetti

A one-dimensional rule-based model for flocking, that combines velocity alignment and long-range centering interactions, is presented and studied. The induced cohesion in the collective motion of the self-propelled agents leads to a unique…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-19 V. Dossetti

We present a numerical study of the phase behavior of repulsively interacting active polar particles that align their active velocities nematically. The amplitude of the active velocity, and the noise in its orientational alignment control…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-01 Biplab Bhattacherjee , Debasish Chaudhuri

Conventional gas-liquid phase transitions feature a coexistence line that has a monotonic and positive slope in line with our intuition that cooling always leads to condensation. Here we study the inverse phenomenon, condensation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-21 Joël A. K. L. Picard , T. Speck

We investigate a 2D dynamical absorbing state model of monodisperse disks, in which rich phase behavior arises from interactions consisting solely of repulsive displacements between overlapping particles. The phase diagram reveals several…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-23 Ashley Z. Guo , Sam Wilken , Dov Levine , Paul M. Chaikin

Using an approach based on Doi-Peliti field theory, we study several different Active Ising Models (AIMs), in each of which collective motion (flocking) of self-propelled particles arises from the spontaneous breaking of a discrete…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Mattia Scandolo , Johannes Pausch , Michael E. Cates

We study a model of flocking in order to describe the transitions during the collective motion of organisms in three dimensions (e.g., birds). In this model the particles representing the organisms are self-propelled, i.e., they move with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Czirok , M. Vicsek , T. Vicsek

We undertake a systematic numerical exploration of self-organized states in a deterministic model of interacting self-propelled particles in two dimensions. In the process, we identify various types of collective motion, namely, disordered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jihad Touma , Amer Shreim , Leonid Klushin

There are two modes by which clusters of aggregating particles can coalesce: The clusters can merge either (i) by the Ostwald ripening process in which particles diffuse from one cluster to the other whilst the cluster centres remain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-13 Andrey Pototsky , Uwe Thiele , Andrew J. Archer

We present a generic framework for describing interacting, spinning, active polar particles, aimed at modelling dense cell aggregates, where cells are treated as polar, rotating objects that interact mechanically with one another and their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-01 Quentin Vagne , Guillaume Salbreux

We study a two-lane model of two-species of particles that perform biased diffusion. Extensive numerical simulations show that when bias q is strong enough oppositely drifting particles form some clusters that block each other. Coarsening…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Adam Lipowski , Dorota Lipowska

The emergence of clustering and coarsening in crowded ensembles of self-propelled agents is studied using a lattice model in one-dimension. The persistent exclusion process, where particles move at directions that change randomly at a low…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-24 Nestor Sepulveda , Rodrigo Soto

We show that even weak nonreciprocal alignment leads to large-scale structure formation in flocking mixtures. By combining numerical simulations of a binary Vicsek model and the analysis of coarse-grained continuum equations, we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-16 Charlotte Myin , Benoît Mahault

An Ising-type Vicsek model is proposed for collective motion and sudden direction change in a population of self-propelled particles. Particles move on a linear lattice with velocity +1 or -1 in the one-dimensional model. The probability of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-01-08 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Kazuya Ishibashi

We analyse biased ensembles of trajectories for a two-dimensional system of particles, evolving by Langevin dynamics in a channel geometry. This bias controls the degree of particle clustering. On biasing to large clustering, we observe a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-05 Jakub Dolezal , Robert L. Jack

We further study the stochastic model discussed in Ref.[2] in which positive and negative particles diffuse in an asymmetric, CP invariant way on a ring. The positive particles hop clockwise, the negative counter-clockwise and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter F. Arndt , Vladimir Rittenberg

We study numerically the coarsening dynamics of the Ising model on a regular lattice with random bonds and on deterministic fractal substrates. We propose a unifying interpretation of the phase-ordering processes based on two classes of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Federico Corberi , Eugenio Lippiello , Raffaella Burioni , Alessandro Vezzani , Marco Zannetti

We report flocking in the dry active granular matter of millimeter-sized two-step-tapered rods without an intervening medium. The system undergoes the flocking phase transition at a threshold area fraction ~ 0.12 having high orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-16 Pradip K. Bera , A. K. Sood