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The diffusive behavior of small entities is strongly influenced by the flow of the surrounding medium, which is ubiquitous in natural and artificial environments. In this study, we investigate the transport characteristics of the inertial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-19 Ankit Gupta , P. S. Burada

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

We demonstrate that deep learning techniques can be used to predict motility induced phase separation (MIPS) in suspensions of active Brownian particles (ABPs) by creating a notion of phase at the particle level. Using a fully connected…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-19 Austin R. Dulaney , John F. Brady

We explore the changes in static structure of a two-dimensional system of active Brownian particles (ABP) with hard-disk interactions, using event-driven Brownian dynamics simulations. In particular, the effect of the self-propulsion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-27 Nadine de Macedo Biniossek , Hartmut Löwen , Thomas Voigtmann , Frank Smallenburg

A collection of rings made of active Brownian particles (ABPs) for different packing fractions and activities is investigated using computer simulations. We show that active rings display an emergent dynamic clustering instead of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-27 Ligesh Theeyancheri , Subhasish Chaki , Tapomoy Bhattacharjee , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

We model a binary mixture of passive and active Brownian particles in two dimensions using the effective interaction between passive particles in the active bath. The activity of active particles and the size ratio of two types of particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-15 Jay Prakash Singh , Sudipta Pattanayak , Shradha Mishra , Jaydeb Chakrabarti

Dry active matter systems are well-known to exhibit Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). However, in wet active systems, attractive hydrodynamic interactions mediated by active particles stalled at a boundary can introduce…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-01 Kingshuk Panja , Rajesh Singh

We review theoretical models of individual motility as well as collective dynamics and pattern formation of active particles. We focus on simple models of active dynamics with a particular emphasis on nonlinear and stochastic dynamics of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Pawel Romanczuk , Markus Bär , Werner Ebeling , Benjamin Lindner , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Active particles may happen to be confined in channels so narrow that they cannot overtake each other (Single File conditions). This interesting situation reveals nontrivial physical features as a consequence of the strong inter-particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Emanuele Locatelli , Fulvio Baldovin , Enzo Orlandini , Matteo Pierno

We describe simulations of active Brownian particles carried out to explore how dynamics and clustering are influenced by particle shape. Our particles are composed of four disks, held together by springs, whose relative size can be varied.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-07 Joshua Eglinton , Mike I. Smith , Michael R. Swift

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

Many microorganisms use chemical `signaling' - a quintessential self-organizing strategy in non-equilibrium - that can induce spontaneous aggregation and coordination in behavior. Using synthetic signaling as a design principle, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-23 Pathma Eswaran , Shradha Mishra

We investigate the structural and dynamic properties of active Brownian particles (APs) confined within a soft annulus-shaped channel. Depending on the strength of the confinement and the P\'eclet number, we observe a novel re-entrant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-15 Timo Knippenberg , Ashreya Jayaram , Thomas Speck , Clemens Bechinger

The aim of this paper is to discuss the mathematical modeling of Brownian active particle systems, a recently popular paradigmatic system for self-propelled particles. We present four microscopic models with different types of repulsive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-31 M. Bruna , M. Burger , A. Esposito , S. M. Schulz

The structural and dynamical properties of suspensions of self-propelled Brownian particles of spherical shape are investigated in three spatial dimensions. Our simulations reveal a phase separation into a dilute and a dense phase, above a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-12 Adam Wysocki , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

We report an approach to obtain effective pair potentials which describe the structure of two-dimensional systems of active Brownian particles. The pair potential is found by an inverse method, which matches the radial distribution function…

Active Brownian Particles are self-propelled particles that move in a dissipative medium subject to random forces, or noise . Additionally, they can be confined by an external field and/or they can interact with one another. The external…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Udo Erdmann , Werner Ebeling , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Anke Ordemann , Frank Moss

In systems possessing spatial or dynamical symmetry breaking, Brownian motion combined with symmetric external input signals, deterministic or random, alike, can assist directed motion of particles at the submicron scales. In such cases,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-05 Peter Hanggi , Fabio Marchesoni

We derive a microscopic expression for a quantity $\mu$ that plays the role of chemical potential of Active Brownian Particles (ABPs) in a steady state in the absence of vortices. We show that $\mu$ consists of (i) an intrinsic chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-17 Siddharth Paliwal , Jeroen Rodenburg , René van Roij , Marjolein Dijkstra

Self-propelled particles that are subject to noise are a well-established generic model system for active matter. A homogeneous alignment field can be used to orient the direction of the self-propulsion velocity and to model systems like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-06 Sameh Othman , Jiarul Midya , Thorsten Auth , Gerhard Gompper