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Active matter systems - such as a collection of active colloidal particles - operate far from equilibrium with complex inter-particle interactions that govern their collective dynamics. Predicting the collective dynamics of such systems may…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-06 Arvin Gopal Subramaniam , Manoj Kumar , Shashi Thutupalli , Rajesh Singh

Active matter systems are able to exhibit emergent non-equilibrium states due to activity-induced effective interactions between the active particles. Here we study the aggregation and dynamical behavior of active rotating particles,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-25 Juan L. Aragones , Joshua P. Steimel , Alfredo Alexander-Katz

The coupling of active, self-motile particles to topological constraints can give rise to novel non-equilibrium dynamical patterns that lack any passive counterpart. Here we study the behavior of self-propelled rods confined to a compact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-21 Liesbeth M. C. Janssen , Andreas Kaiser , Hartmut Löwen

We consider one-dimensional systems comprising either active run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) or passive Brownian random walkers. These particles are either noninteracting or have hardcore exclusions. We study the dynamics of a single tracer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-11 Tirthankar Banerjee , Robert L. Jack , Michael E. Cates

A binary system of classical charged particles interacting through a dipole repulsive potential and confined in a two-dimensional hardwall trap is studied by Brownian dynamics simulations. We found that the presence of small particles…

Popular Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Nelissen , B. Partoens , I. Schweigert , F. M. Peeters

We present a theory for the steady-state dynamics of a two-dimensional system of spherically symmetric active Brownian particles. The derivation of the theory consists of two steps. First, we integrate out the self-propulsions and obtain a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-01 Grzegorz Szamel

Colloids have a striking relevance in a wide spectrum of industrial formulations, spanning from personal care products to protective paints. Their behaviour can be easily influenced by extremely weak forces, which disturb their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-14 Daniel Corbett , Alejandro Cuetos , Matthew Dennison , Alessandro Patti

In the present work, with the intent of exploring the out-of-equilibrium polymerization of active patchy particles in linear chains, we study a suspension of active bivalent Brownian particles (ABBPs). At all studied temperatures and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-19 Caterina Landi , John Russo , Francesco Sciortino , Chantal Valeriani

We model a binary mixture of passive and active Brownian particles in two dimensions using the effective interaction between passive particles in the active bath. The activity of active particles and the size ratio of two types of particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-15 Jay Prakash Singh , Sudipta Pattanayak , Shradha Mishra , Jaydeb Chakrabarti

A possible mechanism leading to anomalous diffusion is the presence of long-range correlations in time between the displacements of the particles. Fractional Brownian motion, a non-Markovian self-similar Gaussian process with stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-03 Alexander H O Wada , Alex Warhover , Thomas Vojta

Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy from their environment and converting it into directed motion.…

Active particles with a (magnetic) dipole moment are of interest for steering self-propelled motion, but also result in novel collective effects due to their dipole-dipole interaction. Here systems of active dipolar particles are studied…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-30 Vitali Telezki , Stefan Klumpp

We study dynamical properties of confined, self-propelled Brownian particles in an inhomogeneous activity profile. Using Brownian dynamics simulations, we calculate the probability to reach a fixed target and the mean first passage time to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-30 Hidde Vuijk , Abhinav Sharma , Debasish Mondal , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Holger Merlitz

We employ renewal processes to characterize the spatiotemporal dynamics of an active Brownian particle under stochastic orientational resetting. By computing the experimentally accessible intermediate scattering function (ISF) and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-14 Yanis Baouche , Thomas Franosch , Matthias Meiners , Christina Kurzthaler

A model for the study of the effective quasistatic conductivity and permittivity of dispersed systems with particle-host interphase, within which many-particle polarization and correlation contributions are effectively incorporated, is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-10 M. Ya. Sushko , A. K. Semenov

We consider finite systems of interacting Brownian particles including active friction in the framework of nonlinear dynamics and statistical/stochastic theory. First we study the statistical properties for $1-d$ systems of masses connected…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner Ebeling

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,…

Cyclic transitions between active and passive states are central to many natural and synthetic systems, ranging from light-driven active particles to animal migrations. Here, we investigate a minimal model of self-propelled Brownian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-28 Ye Zhang , Duanduan Wan

We introduce an extension of the frog model to Euclidean space and prove properties for the spread of active particles. Fix $r>0$ and place a particle at each point $x$ of a unit intensity Poisson point process $\mathcal P \subseteq \mathbb…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Erin Beckman , Emily Dinan , Rick Durrett , Ran Huo , Matthew Junge

We use the system-plus-reservoir approach to study the quantum dynamics of a bipartite continuous variable system (two generic particles). We present an extension of the traditional model of a bath of oscillators which is capable of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 O. S. Duarte , A. O. Caldeira