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The symmetry of the alignment mechanism in systems of polar self-propelled particles determines the possible macroscopic large-scale patterns that can emerge. Here we compare polar and apolar alignment. These systems share some common…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Fernando Peruani , Francesco Ginelli , Markus Bar , Hugues Chate

In this article, we investigate the impact of self-alignment and anti-self-alignment on collective phenomena in dense active matter. These mechanisms correspond to effective torques that align or anti-align a particles orientation with its…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-08 Marco Musacchio , Alexander P. Antonov , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

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

Active matter has played a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of non-equilibrium systems, leading to a fundamental shift in the study of biophysical phenomena. The foundation of active matter research is built on assumptions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-09 Varun Venkatesh , Niels de Graaf Sousa , Amin Doostmohammadi

Self-propelled particles with anti-aligning interactions generally do not form a polar order. However, in this Letter, we show that when multiple types of such particles coexist and interact through aligning interactions between different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-08 Takahiro Oki , Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama , Seiya Nishikawa , Shuji Ishihara , Toshinori Namba

We study the phase behavior of polar Active Brownian Particles moving in two-spatial dimensions and interacting through volume exclusion and velocity alignment. We combine particle-based simulations of the microscopic model with a simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-26 Elena Sese-Sansa , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Demian Levis

We consider the hydrodynamic theory of an active fluid of self-propelled particles with nematic aligning interactions. This class of materials has polar symmetry at the microscopic level, but forms macrostates of nematic symmetry. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-17 Aparna Baskaran , M. Cristina Marchetti

We study the emerging collective states in a simple mechanical model of a dense group of self-propelled polar disks with off-centered rotation, confined within a circular arena. Each disk presents self-alignment towards the sum of contact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-15 Weizhen Tang , Yating Zheng , Amir Shee , Guozheng Lin , Zhangang Han , Pawel Romanczuk , Cristián Huepe

Non-reciprocal systems exhibit diverse dynamical phases whose character depends on the type and degree of non-reciprocity. In this study, we theoretically investigate dynamical structures in a mixture of non-reciprocally aligning polar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-20 Kim L. Kreienkamp , Sabine H. L. Klapp

The goal of these lecture notes is to present in a unified way various models for the dynamics of aligning self-propelled rigid bodies at different scales and the links between them. The models and methods are inspired from [12,13], but, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle , Sara Merino-Aceituno , Ariane Trescases

We present a novel aligning active matter model by extending the nematic alignment rule in self-propelled rods to tunable alignment angles, as represented by collision of cone-shaped particles. Non-vanishing alignment angles introduce…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-29 Zichen Qin , Nariya Uchida

We study the spontaneous motion, binary collisions, and collective dynamics of "polar disks", i.e. purpose-built particles which, when vibrated between two horizontal plates, move coherently along a direction strongly correlated to their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-19 Julien Deseigne , Sébastien Léonard , Olivier Dauchot , Hugues Chaté

Ordered polarity alignment of a cell population plays a vital role in biology, such as in hair follicle alignment and asymmetric cell division. Here, we propose a theoretical framework for the understanding of generic dynamical properties…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-12-13 Kaori Sugimura , Hiroshi Kori

We study, in two space dimensions, the large-scale properties of collections of constant-speed polar point particles interacting locally by nematic alignment in the presence of noise. This minimal approach to self-propelled rods allows one…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Ginelli , F. Peruani , M. Baer , H. Chate

We extend the study of the inertial effects on the dynamics of active agents to the case where self-alignment is present. In contrast with the most common models of active particles, we find that self-alignment, which couples the rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-18 Jeremy Fersula , Nicolas Bredeche , Olivier Dauchot

One standard approach to describe the collective behaviour of self-propelled particles is the Vicsek model: point-like self-propelled particles tend to align their migration directions to the ones of their nearer neighbours at each…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-27 Andreas M. Menzel

We study a system of self-propelled particles whose alignment with neighbors depends on the degree of local alignment. We show that such a local conformity interaction naturally yields a Vicsek-type model with pairwise and three-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Iván León , Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao , Keisuke Taga

Increasing evidence suggests that active matter exhibits instances of mixed symmetry that cannot be fully described by either polar or nematic formalism. Here, we introduce a minimal model that integrates self-propulsion into the active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Niels de Graaf Sousa , Simon Guldager Andersen , Aleksandra Ardaševa , Amin Doostmohammadi

We study an agent-based model of self-propelled particles with a velocity-dependent alignment rule. This interaction is orientation weighted and acts along the line connecting neighboring particles. Tuning the alignment strength produces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Bohdan Dobosh , Alexander Yakimenko

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
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