English
Related papers

Related papers: Directional synchrony among self-propelled particl…

200 papers

We present a derivation of a recently proposed theory for the time dependence of density fluctuations in stationary states of strongly interacting, athermal, self-propelled particles. The derivation consists of two steps. First, we start…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-13 Grzegorz Szamel

We study numerically the phases and dynamics of a dense collection of self-propelled particles with soft repulsive interactions in two dimensions. The model is motivated by recent in vitro experiments on confluent monolayers of migratory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Silke Henkes , Yaouen Fily , M. Cristina Marchetti

We report the experimental observation of mutual synchronization of magnetic nanooscillators driven by pure spin current generated by nonlocal spin injection. We show that the oscillators efficiently synchronize due to the direct spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 S. Urazhdin , V. E. Demidov , R. Cao , B. Divinskiy , V. Tyberkevych , A. Slavin , A. B. Rinkevich , S. O. Demokritov

We demonstrate the emergence of self-organized structures in the course of the relaxation of an initially excited, dissipative and finite chain of interacting particles in a periodic potential towards its many particle equilibrium…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-08-19 Benno Liebchen , Peter Schmelcher

We propose a comprehensive dynamical model for cooperative motion of self-propelled particles, e.g., flocking, by combining well-known elements such as velocity-alignment interactions, spatial interactions, and angular noise into a unified…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-20 V. Dossetti , F. J. Sevilla , V. M. Kenkre

Hydrodynamic synchronization provides a general mechanism for the spontaneous emergence of coherent beating states in independently driven mesoscopic oscillators. A complete physical picture of those phenomena is of definite importance to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-29 Nick Koumakis , Roberto Di Leonardo

Dynamical symmetries are of considerable importance in elucidating the complex behaviour of strongly interacting systems with many degrees of freedom. Paradigmatic examples are cooperative phenomena as they arise in phase transitions, where…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-16 Malte Henkel

In this letter, we report a numerical study on the collective dynamics of two mutually coupled Thomas oscillators with linear/nonlinear coupling in a dynamic environment. We claim our model calculations can explain the diffusion of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-13 Vinesh Vijayan , Biplab Ganguli

The diffusion properties of self-propelled particles which move at constant speed and, in addition, reverse their direction of motion repeatedly are investigated. The internal dynamics of particles triggering these reversal processes is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-05-30 Robert Großmann , Fernando Peruani , Markus Bär

We model and study the patterns created through the interaction of collectively moving self-propelled particles (SPPs) and elastically tethered obstacles. Simulations of an individual-based model reveal at least three distinct large-scale…

We experimentally investigate the dynamics of synthetic active particles composed of gravitationally bouncing, superwalking droplets confined within an annular fluid bath. Driven by a topologically pumping dual-frequency waveform, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-19 Rudra Sekhri , Rahil N. Valani , Tapio Simula

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in understanding the motion in Hamiltonian systems when phase space is divided into stochastic and integrable regions. This paper studies one aspect of this problem, namely, the motion…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles F. F. Karney

The mechanism of synchronization in the random Zaslavsky map is investigated. From the error dynamics of two particles, the structure of phase space was analyzed, and a transcritical bifurcation between a saddle and a stable fixed point was…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-07 Dong-Uk Hwang , Inbo Kim , Sunghwan Rim , Chil-Min Kim , Young-Jai Park

A novel phenomenon is discovered that the short-range interaction between strongly nonlocal spatial solitons depends sinusoidally on their phase difference. The two neighbouring solitons at close proximate can be inter-trapped via the…

Optics · Physics 2011-02-28 Wei Hu , Shigen Ouyang , Pingbao Yang , Qi Guo

We study the relationship between synchronization and the rate with which information is exchanged between nodes in a spatio-temporal network that describes the dynamics of classical particles under a substrate Remoissenet-Peyrard…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. M. Moukam Kakmeni , M. S. Baptista

We study the self-organization of spherical particles in an oscillating flow through experiments inside an oscillating box. The interactions between the particles and the time-averaged (steady streaming) flow lead to the formation of either…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-03 T. J. J. M. van Overveld , H. J. H. Clercx , M. Duran-Matute

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

We study a system of purely repulsive spherical self-propelled particles in the minimal set-up inducing Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). We show that, even if explicit alignment interactions are absent, a growing order in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-26 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi

We derive a two-dimensional symplectic map for particle motion at the plasma edge by modeling the electrostatic potential as a superposition of integer spatial harmonics with relative phase shift, then reduce it to a two-wave model to study…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 L. F. B. Souza , Y. Elskens , R. Egydio de Carvalho , I. L. Caldas

Transport properties of particles and waves in spatially periodic structures that are driven by external time-dependent forces manifestly depend on the space-time symmetries of the corresponding equations of motion. A systematic analysis of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Sergey Denisov , Sergej Flach , Peter Hanggi