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We consider the dynamics of systems of self propelling particles with nonholonomic constraints. A continuum model for a discrete algorithm used in works by T. Vicsek et al. is proposed. For a case of planar geometry the finite flocking…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Kulinskii , V. I. Ratushnaya , A. V. Zvelindovsky , D. Bedeaux

We study a minimal cognitive flocking model, which assumes that the moving entities navigate using exclusively the available instantaneous visual information. The model consists of active particles, with no memory, that interact by a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Lucas Barberis , Fernando Peruani

Polar flocks in discrete active systems are often assumed to be robust, yet recent studies reveal their fragility under both imposed and spontaneous fluctuations. Here, we revisit the four-state active Potts model (APM) and show that its…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-15 Swarnajit Chatterjee , Mintu Karmakar , Matthieu Mangeat , Heiko Rieger , Raja Paul

We study the collective dynamics of a population of particles/organisms subject to self-consistent attraction-repulsion interactions and an external velocity field. The starting point of our analysis is a mean-field kinetic model and we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Thierry Goudon , Antoine Mellet

We study dynamics of clustering in systems containing active particles that are immersed in an explicit solvent. For this purpose we have adopted a hybrid simulation method, consisting of molecular dynamics and multi-particle collision…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-01 Arabinda Bera , Soudamini Sahoo , Snigdha Thakur , Subir K. Das

We study Euler scale hydrodynamics of massless integrable quantum field theories interpolating between two non-trivial renormalisation group fixed points after inhomogeneous quantum quenches. Using a partitioning protocol with left and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 David X. Horvath

We investigate how the competing presence of a nonuniform motility landscape and an external confining field affects the properties of active particles. We employ the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP) model with a periodic swim…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-02 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen

We analyse biased ensembles of trajectories for the random-field Ising model on a fully-connected lattice, which is described exactly by mean-field theory. By coupling the activity of the system to a dynamical biasing field, we find a range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-27 Jules Guioth , Robert L. Jack

We analyse the asymptotic behavior for kinetic models describing the collective behavior of animal populations. We focus on models for self-propelled individuals, whose velocity relaxes toward the mean orientation of the neighbors. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-01 P. Aceves-Sánchez , M. Bostan , J. A. Carrillo , P. Degond

We study a two-dimensional crystal composed of active units governed by self-alignment. This mechanism induces a torque that aligns a particle's orientation with its velocity and leads to a phase transition from a disordered to a flocking…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-17 Marco Musacchio , Alexander P. Antonov , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

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 investigate the stability of self-propelled particle flocks in the Taylor-Green vortex, a steady vortical flow. We consider a model where particles align themselves to a combination of the orientation and the acceleration of particles…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Andrew W. Baggaley

Glassy dynamics in a dense system of active particles with self-propulsion force $f_0$ and persistence time $\tau_p$ are crucial for many biological processes. Recent studies have shown that, unlike relaxation dynamics, dynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-22 Soumitra Kolya , Puneet Pareek , Saroj Kumar Nandi

This work constructs an advanced force field, the Completely Multipolar Model (CMM), to quantitatively reproduce each term of an energy decomposition analysis (EDA) for aqueous solvated alkali metal cations and halide anions and their ion…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 J. P. Heindel , L. Kim , M. Head-Gordon , T. Head-Gordon

We derive a hydrodynamic description of metric-free active matter: starting from self-propelled particles aligning with neighbors defined by "topological" rules, not metric zones, -a situation advocated recently to be relevant for bird…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Anton Peshkov , Sandrine Ngo , Eric Bertin , Hugues Chaté , Francesco Ginelli

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

We perform a coarse-graining analysis of the paradigmatic active matter model, Active Brownian Particles, yielding a continuum description in terms of balance laws for mass, linear and angular momentum, and energy. The derivation of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-30 Jeffrey M. Epstein , Katherine Klymko , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

We study a set of models of self-propelled particles that achieve collective motion through similar alignment-based dynamics, considering versions with and without repulsive interactions that do not affect the heading directions. We explore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-27 Yinong Zhao , Thomas Ihle , Zhangang Han , Cristián Huepe , Pawel Romanczuk

Motivated by recent experimental and computational results that show a motility-induced clustering transition in self-propelled particle systems, we study an individual model and its corresponding Self-Organized Hydrodynamic model for…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-02-22 Pierre Degond , Silke Henkes , Hui Yu

In this paper, we are concerned with a class of conservative systems including asymmetric exclusion processes and zero-range processes as examples, where some particles are initially placed on $N$ positions. A particle jumps from a position…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Xiaofeng Xue