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Understanding collective self-organization in active matter, such as bird flocks and fish schools, remains a grand challenge in physics. Interactions that induce alignment are essential for flocking; however, alignment alone is generally…

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We report a motility-induced pinning transition in the active Ising model for a self-propelled particle system with discrete symmetry. This model was known to exhibit a liquid-gas type flocking phase transition, but a recent study reveals…

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Active matter systems encompass both natural and artificially created systems consisting of numerous active particles. These particles actively consume energy to propel themselves or exert mechanical forces, leading to intricate behaviors…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mintu Karmakar

With the aim of understanding the emergence of collective motion from local interactions of organisms in a "noisy" environment, we study biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium models consisting of self-propelled particles. In…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Czirok , T. Vicsek

Systems composed of strongly interacting self-propelled particles can form a spontaneously flowing polar active fluid. The study of the connection between the microscopic dynamics of a single such particle and the macroscopic dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Benjamin Loewe , Anton Souslov , Paul M. Goldbart

We consider aligning self-propelled particles in two dimensions. Their motion is given by generalized Langevin equations and includes non-additive N-particle interactions. The qualitative behavior is as for the famous Vicsek model. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-08 Rüdiger Kürsten , Thomas Ihle

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.…

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We analyse collective motion that occurs during rare (large deviation) events in systems of active particles, both numerically and analytically. We discuss the associated dynamical phase transition to collective motion, which occurs when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-10 Yann-Edwin Keta , Étienne Fodor , Frédéric van Wijland , Michael E. Cates , Robert L. Jack

A model of self-driven particles similar to the Vicsek model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 (1995) 1226] but with metric-free interactions is studied by means of a novel Enskog-type kinetic theory. In this model, N particles of constant speed v0 try…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-21 Yen-Liang Chou , Rylan Wolfe , Thomas Ihle

We present a comprehensive computational study of the collective behavior emerging from the competition between self-propulsion, excluded volume interactions and velocity-alignment in a two-dimensionnal model of active particles. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-08 Aitor Martín-Gómez , Demian Levis , Albert Díaz-Guilera , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We study the large-time behavior of hydrodynamic model which describes the collective behavior of continuum of agents, driven by pairwise alignment interactions with additional external potential forcing. The external force tends to compete…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Ruiwen Shu , Eitan Tadmor

Swimmers and self-propelled particles are physical models for the collective behaviour and motility of a wide variety of living systems, such as bacteria colonies, bird flocks and fish schools. Such artificial active materials are amenable…

Active particles that translate chemical energy into self-propulsion can maintain a far-from-equilibrium steady state and perform work. The entropy production measures how far from equilibrium such a particle system operates and serves as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-06 Gunnar Pruessner , Rosalba Garcia-Millan

Aligning self-propelled particles undergo a nonequilibrium flocking transition from apolar to polar phases as their interactions become stronger. We propose a thermodynamically consistent lattice model, in which the internal state of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-08 Karel Proesmans , Gianmaria Falasco , Atul Tanaji Mohite , Massimiliano Esposito , Étienne Fodor

We study the energy cost of flocking in the active Ising model (AIM) and show that besides the energy cost for self-propelled motion, an additional energy dissipation is required to power the alignment of spins. We find that this additional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-03 Qiwei Yu , Yuhai Tu

We extend recent results on the exact hydrodynamics of a system of diffusive active particles displaying a motility-induced phase separation to account for typical fluctuations of the dynamical fields. By calculating correlation functions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-26 Tal Agranov , Sunghan Ro , Yariv Kafri , Vivien Lecomte

We propose an extension to the ISM of flocking and swarming. The model has been introduced to explain certain dynamic features of swarming (second sound, a lower than expected dynamic critical exponent) while preserving the mechanism for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-30 Sebastián Carruitero , Alejo Costa Duran , Giulia Pisegna , Mauricio B. Sturla , Tomás S. Grigera

We consider the collective behaviour of active particles that locally align with their neighbours. Agent-based simulation models have previously shown that in one dimension, these particles can form into a flock that maintains its stability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Eoin Ó Laighléis , Martin R. Evans , Richard A. Blythe

Recent investigations have provided important insights into the complex structure and dynamics of collectively moving flocks of living organisms. Two intriguing observations are, scale-free correlations in the velocity fluctuations, in the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Kunal Bhattacharya , Abhijit Chakraborty

We present a new approach to the dynamics of interacting particles with reaction and diffusion. Starting from the underlying discrete stochastic jump process we derive a general field theory describing the dynamics of the density field,…

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