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Active matter consists of self-propelled elements exhibits fascinating collective motions ranging from biological to artificial systems. Among wide varieties of active matter systems, reconstituted bio-filaments moving on molecular motor…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-25 Sakurako Tanida , Ken'ya Furuta , Kaori Nishikawa , Tetsuya Hiraiwa , Hiroaki Kojima , Kazuhiro Oiwa , Masaki Sano

Microswimmers typically operate in complex environments. In biological systems, often diverse species are simultaneously present and interact with each other. Here, we derive a (time-dependent) particle-scale statistical description, namely…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-13 Christian Hoell , Hartmut Löwen , Andreas M. Menzel

One of the most notable features in repulsive particle based active matter systems is motility-induced-phase separation (MIPS) where a dense, often crystalline phase coexists with a low density fluid. In most active matter studies, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 P. Forgacs , A. Libal , C. Reichhardt , N. Hengartner , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We study the interplay of activity, order and flow through a set of coarse-grained equations governing the hydrodynamic velocity, concentration and stress fields in a suspension of active, energy-dissipating particles. We make several…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Yashodhan Hatwalne , Sriram Ramaswamy , Madan Rao , R. Aditi Simha

We describe simulations of active Brownian particles carried out to explore how dynamics and clustering are influenced by particle shape. Our particles are composed of four disks, held together by springs, whose relative size can be varied.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-07 Joshua Eglinton , Mike I. Smith , Michael R. Swift

We propose a simple mathematical model that describes a pairing-induced motion of active and passive particles in a two-dimensional system, which is motivated by our previous paper [Ishikawa et al., Phys. Rev. E \textbf{106} (2022) 024604].…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-11 Hiroaki Ishikawa , Yuki Koyano , Hiroaki Ito , Yutaka Sumino , Hiroyuki Kitahata

Observing spontaneous velocity ordering or flocking during motility induced phase separation (MIPS) in a system of spherical active Brownian particles without alignment interaction is challenging. We take up this problem by performing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-08 Subhajit Paul , Suman Majumder , Wolfhard Janke

A common feature of biological self-organization is how active agents communicate with each other or their environment via chemical signaling. Such communications, mediated by self-generated chemical gradients, have consequences for both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-07 Babak Vajdi Hokmabad , Suropriya Saha , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian , Corinna C. Maass

Hydrodynamically interacting active particles in an external harmonic potential form a self-assembled fluid pump at large enough P\'eclet numbers. Here, we give a quantitative criterion for the formation of the pump and show that particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 Marc Hennes , Katrin Wolff , Holger Stark

Self-propelled microparticles create flow fields that determine how they interact with surfaces, external flows, and each other. These flow fields fall into distinct classes--pushers, pullers, and neutral swimmers--each exhibiting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-25 Lisa Rohde , Gordei Anchutkin , Viktor Holubec , Frank Cichos

We study the self-propulsion of spherical droplets as simplified hydrodynamic models of swimming microorganisms or artificial microswimmers. In contrast to approaches, which start from active velocity fields produced by the system, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-28 R. Kree , P. S. Burada , A. Zippelius

We simulate clustering, phase separation and hexatic ordering in a monolayered suspension of active squirming disks subject to an attractive Lennard-Jones-like pairwise interaction potential, taking hydrodynamic interactions between the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-31 Ricard Matas Navarro , Suzanne Fielding

Collective rotations are common in active matter, enhancing cohesion, transport, and mixing. They are typically attributed to chiral non-reciprocal dynamics due to intrinsic particle chirality, torque-generating interactions among units, or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-20 Maks Pečnik Bambič , Nuno A. M. Araújo , Giorgio Volpe

This paper is a first step to chase the ambitious objective of developing a mathmatical theory of living systems. The contents refer modeling large systems of interacting living entities with the aim of describing their collective behaviors…

Active particles such as swimming bacteria or self-propelled colloids are known to spontaneously organize into fascinating large-scale dynamic structures. The emergence of these collective states from the motility pattern of the individual…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-20 Hamid Karan , Gerardo E. Pradillo , Petia M. Vlahovska

The hydrodynamic interactions of a suspension of self-propelled particles are studied using a direct numerical simulation method which simultaneously solves for the host fluid and the swimming particles. A modified version of the "Smoothed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-15 John J. Molina , Yasuya Nakayama , Ryoichi Yamamoto

Ratchet effects can arise for single or collectively interacting Brownian particles on an asymmetric substrate when a net dc transport is produced by an externally applied ac driving force or by periodically flashing the substrate.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-06 C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

Active particles disturb the fluid around them as force dipoles, or stresslets, which govern their collective dynamics. Unlike swimming speeds, the stresslets of active particles are rarely determined due to the lack of a suitable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-15 Eric Lauga , Sebastien Michelin

The behavior of living systems is based on the experience they gained through their interactions with the environment [1]. This experience is stored in the complex biochemical networks of cells and organisms to provide a relationship…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-14 Santiago Muiños-Landin , Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi , Frank Cichos

The propulsion of mammalian spermatozoa relies on the spontaneous periodic oscillation of their flagella. These oscillations are driven internally by the coordinated action of ATP-powered dynein motors that exert sliding forces between…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-13 Chenji Li , Brato Chakrabarti , Pedro Castilla , Achal Mahajan , David Saintillan