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The rotational Brownian motion of colloidal spheres in dense suspensions reflects local hydrodynamics and friction, both key to non-linear rheological phenomena such as shear-thickening and jamming, and transport in crowded environments,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-23 Taiki Yanagishima , Yanyan Liu , Hajime Tanaka , Roel Dullens

The non-thermal nature of self-propelling colloids offers new insights into non-equilibrium physics. The central mathematical model to describe their trajectories is active Brownian motion, where a particle moves with a constant speed,…

We present a model of anomalous diffusion consisting of an ensemble of particles undergoing homogeneous Brownian motion except for confinement by randomly placed reflecting boundaries. For power-law distributed compartment sizes, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-09 Gerald John Lapeyre

We have investigated the vibrational density of states (VDOS) of a thin Cu nanowire with $<100>$ axial orientation and considered the effect of axial strain. The VDOS are calculated using a real space Green's function approach with the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Yasemin Şengün , Sondan Durukanoğlu

The vibrational spectra of solids, both ordered and amorphous, in the low-energy regime, control the thermal and transport properties of materials, from heat capacity to heat conduction, electron-phonon couplings, conventional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-17 Matteo Baggioli , Alessio Zaccone

We study the dynamics of a single active Brownian particle (ABP) in two spatial dimensions. The ABP has an intrinsic time scale $D_R^{-1}$ set by the rotational diffusion constant $D_R$. We show that, at short-times $t \ll D_R^{-1}$, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-29 Urna Basu , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso , Gregory Schehr

We investigate a two-dimensional system of active particles confined to a narrow annular domain. Despite the absence of explicit interactions among the velocities or the active forces of different particles, the system displays a transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Caprini , Claudio Maggi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Systems comprised of self-steering active Brownian particles are studied via simulations for a minimal cognitive flocking model. The dynamics of the active Brownian particles is extended by an orientational response with limited…

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

We investigate a two-dimensional system of interacting Active Brownian Particles. Using the Martin-Siggia-Rose-Janssen-de Dominicis formalism, we built up the generating functional for correlation functions. We study in detail the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-26 Nathan O. Silvano , Daniel G. Barci

Atomic vibrations play a vital role in the functions of various physical, chemical, and biological systems. The vibrational properties and the specific heat of crystalline bulk materials are well described by Debye theory, which…

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) represent a minimal model of active matter consisting of self-propelled spheres with purely repulsive interactions and rotational noise. Here, we examine the pressure of ABPs in two dimensions in both closed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-11 Adam Patch , David Yllanes , M. Cristina Marchetti

This paper investigates the dynamics of compact localized modes in one-dimensional flat-band elastic lattices. Flat dispersion arises from destructive interference between neighboring elements, resulting in a zero group velocity across all…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Emanuele Riva , Jacopo Marconi , Francesco Braghin

We consider an active Brownian particle moving in a disordered two-dimensional energy or motility landscape. The averaged mean-square-displacement (MSD) of the particle is calculated analytically within a systematic short-time expansion. As…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-03 Davide Breoni , Michael Schmiedeberg , Hartmut Löwen

Escape of active agents from metastable states is of great interest in statistical and biological physics. In this study, we investigate the escape of a flexible active ring, composed of active Brownian particles, from a flat attractive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-21 Bin Tang , Jin-cheng Gao , Kang Chen , Tian Hui Zhang , Wen-de Tian

Adding a small amount of passive (Brownian) particles to a two-dimensional dense suspension of repulsive active Brownian particles does not affect the appearance of a motility-induced phase separation into a dense and a dilute phase, caused…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-11 Rodrigo Fernández-Quevedo García , Enrique Chacón , Pedro Tarazona , Chantal Valeriani

The boson peak is a characteristic anomaly of amorphous solids broadly defined as a low-energy excess in the density of states and heat capacity compared to the textbook predictions of Debye theory. The origin of this anomaly has long been…

Using Brownian vibrators, where single particles can undergo Brownian motion under vibration, we experimentally investigated self-organized structures and dynamics of quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2d) granular materials with volume fractions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-18 Yangrui Chen , Jie Zhang

A wide range of physical and biological systems, including colloidal magnets, granular spinners, and starfish embryos, are characterized by strongly rotating units that give rise to odd viscosity and odd elasticity. These active systems can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-28 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

The diffusive behavior of small entities is strongly influenced by the flow of the surrounding medium, which is ubiquitous in natural and artificial environments. In this study, we investigate the transport characteristics of the inertial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-19 Ankit Gupta , P. S. Burada

We investigate the wetting transitions displayed by the collection of active Brownian particles (ABPs) confined within rigid, impenetrable, flat walls. In our computational study using Brownian dynamics simulations, the wall-particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-08 Suchismita Das , Raghunath Chelakkot