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Active particles with a (magnetic) dipole moment are of interest for steering self-propelled motion, but also result in novel collective effects due to their dipole-dipole interaction. Here systems of active dipolar particles are studied…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-30 Vitali Telezki , Stefan Klumpp

We investigate pattern formation in a driven mixture of two repulsive particles by introducing a Field-based Lattice Model (FLM), a hybrid model that combines aspects of the driven Widom-Rowlison lattice gas (DWRLG) and its statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-08 G. E. Freire Oliveira , R. Dickman , M. O. Lavrentovich , R. K. P. Zia

We numerically examine the dynamic phases and pattern formation of two-dimensional monodisperse repulsive disks driven over random quenched disorder. We show that there is a series of distinct dynamic regimes as a function of increasing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-19 Y. Yang , D. McDermott , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

We numerically examine mixtures of circularly moving and passive disks as a function of density and active orbit radius. For low or intermediate densities and/or small orbit radii, the system can organize into a reversible partially phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-13 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We computationally studied the phase behavior and dynamics of binary mixtures of active particles, where each 'species' had distinct activities leading to distinct velocities, fast and slow. We obtained phase diagrams demonstrating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-09 Thomas Kolb , Daphne Klotsa

We introduce a minimal model for a collection of self-propelled apolar active particles, also called as `active nematic', on a two-dimensional substrate and study the order-disorder transition with the variation of density. The particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-18 Rakesh Das , Manoranjan Kumar , Shradha Mishra

Turing patterns are a central paradigm for describing spatial patterns in nature. The corresponding theory of reaction-diffusion dynamics combines ideal diffusion with nonlinear reactions, resulting in patterns when species diffuse at…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Cathelijne ter Burg , David Zwicker

Modern experimental platforms such as supercoducting-circuit arrays call for the exploration of bosonic tight-binding models in unconventional situations with no counterpart in real materials. Here we investigate one of such situations, in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-16 Zijian Wang , Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch , Zi Cai

Many types of mammalian cells exert active contractile forces and mechanically deform their elastic substrate, to accomplish biological functions such as cell migration. These substrate deformations provide a mechanism by which cells can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-22 Subhaya Bose , Patrick S. Noerr , Ajay Gopinathan , Arvind Gopinath , Kinjal Dasbiswas

The self-organised motion of vast numbers of creatures in a single direction is a spectacular example of emergent order. We recreate this phenomenon using actuated non-living components. We report here that millimetre-sized tapered rods,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-23 Nitin Kumar , Harsh Soni , Sriram Ramaswamy , A. K. Sood

We present experiments on the collective dynamics of macroscopic photoactive self-propelled particles subjected to spatiotemporally varying excitation. The particles move within an arena divided into two regions with different illumination…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Sára Lévay , Axel Katona , Raúl Cruz Hidalgo , Iker Zuriguel

Collective motion is a phenomenon observed across length scales in nature, from bacterial swarming and tissue migration to the flocking of animals. The mechanisms underlying this behavior vary significantly depending on the biological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-15 Urvi Mahendra Bora , Mohd Suhail Rizvi

We analyze the pattern formation in systems of active particles with chiral forces in the context of pedestrian dynamics. To describe the interparticle interactions, we use the standard social force model and supplement it with a new type…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-30 Anna S. Bodrova , Fatema Al Najim , N. V. Brilliantov

We examine the ordering, pinning, and dynamics of two-dimensional pattern forming systems interacting with a periodic one-dimensional substrate. In the absence of the substrate, particles with competing long-range repulsion and short-range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-29 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Natural phenomena frequently involve a very large number of interacting molecules moving in confined regions of space. Cellular transport by motor proteins is an example of such collective behavior. We derive a deterministic compartmental…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-01 Yoram Zarai , Michael Margaliot , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

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

When particles move at a constant speed and have the tendency to align their directions of motion, ordered large scale movement can emerge despite significant levels of noise. Many variants of this model of self-propelled particles have…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Matthias Meschede , Oskar Hallatschek

Nonreciprocal interactions have recently attracted growing interest in nonequilibrium physics. In particular, breaking action-reaction symmetry has been proposed as a mechanism for collective motion, yet controlled experimental realizations…

We study the phase behaviour of a fluid composed of particles which interact via a pair potential that is repulsive for large inter-particle distances, is attractive at intermediate distances and is strongly repulsive at short distances…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-09-17 A. J. Archer , C. Ionescu , D. Pini , L. Reatto

We study stochastic transport of interacting particles on a disordered network described by the random comb geometry. The model is defined on a one-dimensional backbone from which branches of random lengths emanate, providing a minimal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Swastik Majumder , Mustansir Barma