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Active transport of biomolecular condensates and cell migration in collectives are fundamental to development, homeostasis, and processes such as cancer progression, wound healing, and infection response. Yet how these assemblies are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-24 Hossein Vahid , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Abhinav Sharma

Based on Brownian Dynamics (BD) simulations, we study the dynamical self-assembly of active Brownian particles with dipole-dipole interactions, stemming from a permanent point dipole at the particle center. The propulsion direction of each…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Guo-Jun Liao , Carol K. Hall , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) with pure repulsion is an ideal model to understand the effect of nonequilibrium on collective behaviors. It has long been established that activity can create effective attractions leading to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-01 Jie Su , Mengkai Feng , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

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

A collection of rings made of active Brownian particles (ABPs) for different packing fractions and activities is investigated using computer simulations. We show that active rings display an emergent dynamic clustering instead of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-27 Ligesh Theeyancheri , Subhasish Chaki , Tapomoy Bhattacharjee , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) are termed out to be a successful way of modeling the moving microorganism on the substrate. In recent studies, it is shown that such organisms can sense the characteristics of the substrate. Motivated by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-31 Pawan Kumar Mishra , Ajeya Krishna , Shradha Mishra

We study interacting active Brownian particles (ABPs) with a space-dependent swim velocity via simulation and theory. We find that, although an equation of state exists, a mechanical equilibrium does not apply to ABPs in activity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-13 Adam Wysocki , Anil K. Dasanna , Heiko Rieger

The transport of active particles may occur in complex environments, in which it emerges from the interplay between the mobility of the active components and the quenched disorder of the environment. Here we explore structural and dynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-31 Fergus J. Moore , John Russo Tanniemola B. Liverpool , C. Patrick Royall

We study the motility-induced aggregation of active Brownian particles (ABPs) on a porous, circular wall. We observe that the morphology of aggregated dense-phase on a static wall depends on the wall porosity, particle motility, and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-06 Suchismita Das , Sounok Ghosh , Raghunath Chelakkot

Motility-induced wall aggregation of active Brownian particles (ABPs) is a well-studied phenomenon. Here, we study the aggregation of ABPs on porous walls, which allows the particles to penetrate through at large motility. We show that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-13 Suchismita Das , Raghunath Chelakkot

Recently, it has been discovered that systems of Active Brownian particles (APB) at high density organise their velocities into coherent domains showing large spatial structures in the velocity field. Such a collective behavior occurs…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-23 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

The steady state and phase ordering kinetics in a pure active Borwnian particle system are studied in recent years. In binary mixture of active and passive Brownian particles passive particles are used as probe to understand the properties…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-23 Shambhavi Dikshit , Shradha Mishra

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

Self-propelled particles possessing permanent magnetic dipole moments occur naturally in magnetotactic bacteria and in man-made systems like active colloids or micro-robots. Yet, the interplay between self-propulsion and anisotropic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-29 Maria Kelidou , Mohammad Fazelzadeh , Baptiste Parage , Sara Jabbari Farouji

We study the structural and dynamical behaviors of a diblock copolymer chain in a bath of active Brownian particles (ABPs) by extensive Brownian dynamics simulation in a two-dimensional model system. Specifically, the A block of chain is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-22 Yi-qi Xia , Zhuang-lin Shen , Wen-de Tian , Kang Chen , Yu-qiang Ma

One of the most intriguing phenomena in active matter has been the gas-liquid like motility induced phase separation (MIPS) observed in repulsive active particles. However, experimentally no particle can be a perfect sphere, and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-20 Zhan Ma , Ran Ni

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) serve as a minimal model of active matter systems. When ABPs are sufficiently persistent, they undergo a liquid-gas phase separation and, in the presence of obstacles, accumulate around them, forming a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-16 Pablo Perez-Bastías , Rodrigo Soto

Active matter exhibits many intriguing non-equilibrium character, \emph{e.g.}, the active Brownian particles (ABP) without any attractive and aligned interactions can occur the mobility-induced phase transition to form some dense domains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-24 Cheng Yang , Ying Zeng , Shun Xu , Xin Zhou

We investigate the phase behavior and kinetics of a monodisperse mixture of active (\textit{i.e.}, self-propelled) and passive isometric Brownian particles through Brownian dynamics simulations and theory. As in a purely active system,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-08 Joakim Stenhammar , Raphael Wittkowski , Davide Marenduzzo , Michael E. Cates

As a result of the competition between self-propulsion and excluded volume interactions, purely repulsive self-propelled spherical particles undergo a motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). We carry out a systematic computational study,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-08 Demian Levis , Joan Codina , Ignacio Pagonabarraga
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