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Motivated by chromosomes enclosed in nucleus and the recently discovered active topological glass, we study a spherically confined melt of long nonconcatenated active polymer rings. Without activity, the rings exhibit the same average…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-27 Iurii Chubak , Stanard Mebwe Pachong , Kurt Kremer , Christos N. Likos , Jan Smrek

We introduce and study a model of active Brownian motion with multiplicative noise describing fluctuations in the self-propulsion or activity. We find that the standard picture of density accumulation in slow regions is qualitatively…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-29 Benoît Mahault , Prakhar Godara , Ramin Golestanian

We study the dynamical steady-states of a monolayer of chemically active self-phoretic colloids as a function of packing fraction and self-propulsion speed by means of Brownian dynamics simulations. We focus on the case that a chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-11 Federico Fadda , D. A. Matoz-Fernandez , René van Roij , Sara Jabbari-Farouji

Active soft matter frequently shows motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), where self-propelled particles condensate into clusters with an inner liquid-like structure. Such activity may also result in motility-induced crystallization…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-24 Max Philipp Holl , Alina Barbar Steinberg , Uwe Thiele

Recently, there has been much interest in activity-induced phase separations in concentrated suspensions of "active Brownian particles" (ABPs), self-propelled spherical particles whose direction of motion relaxes through thermal rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-13 Joakim Stenhammar , Davide Marenduzzo , Rosalind J. Allen , Michael E. Cates

While the collective dynamics of spherical active Brownian particles is relatively well understood by now, the much more complex dynamics of nonspherical active particles still raises interesting open questions. Previous work has shown that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-31 Stephan Bröker , Michael te Vrugt , Raphael Wittkowski

Active particle systems are a class of non-equilibrium systems composed of self-propelled Brownian particles; through interactions between particles within the system, a variety of intriguing collective behaviors can emerge. Based on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-25 Sihang Guo , Guangyu Yang , Guoqing Meng , Yingying Wang , Junxing Pan , Jinjun Zhang

Dense active systems are widespread in nature, examples range from bacterial colonies to biological tissues. Dense clusters of active particles can be obtained by increasing the packing fraction of the system or taking advantage of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-13 Matteo Paoluzzi , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Systems of independent active particles embedded into a fluctuating environment are relevant to many areas of soft-matter science. We use a minimal model of noninteracting spin-carrying Brownian particles in a Gaussian field and show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-18 Ruben Zakine , Jean-Baptiste Fournier , Frédéric Van Wijland

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of active matter using a two-dimensional active Brownian particles model. In these systems, self-propelled particles undergo motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), spontaneously segregating into…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-26 Toranosuke Umemura , Issei Sakai , Takuma Akimoto

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 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

The formation and dynamics of swarms is wide spread in living systems, from bacterial bio-films to schools of fish and flocks of birds. We study this emergent collective behavior in a model of active Brownian particles with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Rajendra Singh Negi , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

Using an additivity property, we study particle-number fluctuations in a system of interacting self-propelled particles, called active Brownian particles (ABPs), which consists of repulsive disks with random self-propulsion velocities. From…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-16 Subhadip Chakraborti , Shradha Mishra , Punyabrata Pradhan

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) function as self-driving agents that display non-equilibrium behavior through their pairwise interactions which lead to phase separation and vortex patterns in both soft matter and living systems. A…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 Sadra Saremi , Amirhossein Ahmadkhan Kordbacheh

We derive equations of motion for the mean-squared displacement (MSD) of an active Brownian particle (ABP) in a crowded environment modeled by a dense system of passive Brownian particles, and of a passive tracer particle in a dense…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-27 Julian Reichert , Thomas Voigtmann

Active matter has thrived in recent years, driven both by the insight that it underlies fundamental processes in nature, and by its vast potential for applications. This allows for innovation both inspired by experimental observations, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-03 Margaret Rosenberg , Hartmut Löwen

As a result of nonequilibrium forces, purely repulsive self-propelled particles undergo macrophase separation between a dense and a dilute phase. We present a thorough study of the ordering kinetics of such motility-induced phase separation…

The effect of curvature on an ensemble of repulsive active Brownian particles (ABPs) moving on a spherical surface is studied. Surface curvature strongly affects the dynamics of ABPs, as it introduces a new time scale $\tau=R/v_0$, with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Priyanka Iyer , Roland G. Winkler , Dmitry A. Fedosov , Gerhard Gompper

The conformational and dynamical properties of active self-propelled filaments/polymers are investigated in the presence of hydrodynamic interactions by both, Brownian dynamics simulations and analytical theory. Numerically, a discrete…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-04 Aitor Martin-Gomez , Thomas Eisenstecken , Gerhard Gompper , Roland G. Winkler