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We consider a Brownian particle which, in addition to being in contact with a thermal bath, is driven by fluctuating forces which stem from active processes in the system, such as self-propulsion or collisions with other active particles.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-24 Lennart Dabelow , Stefano Bo , Ralf Eichhorn

We present an innovative robotic device designed to provide controlled motion for studying active matter. Motion is driven by an internal vibrator powered by a small rechargeable battery. The system integrates acoustic and magnetic sensors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 M. Noirhomme , I. Mammadli , N. Vanesse , J. Pande , A. -S. Smith , N. Vandewalle

In the last 20 years, active matter has been a very successful research field, bridging the fundamental physics of nonequilibrium thermodynamics with applications in robotics, biology, and medicine. This field deals with active particles,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-12 Angelo Barona Balda , Aykut Argun , Agnese Callegari , Giovanni Volpe

Homing and navigation are fundamental behaviors in biological systems that enable agents to reliably reach a target under uncertainty. We present a Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework to model adaptive homing in continuous two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-10 Riya Singh , Pratikshya Jena , Anish Kumar , Shradha Mishra

We study quasi two-dimensional, monodisperse systems of active Brownian particles (ABPs) for a range of activities, stiffnesses, and densities. We develop a microscopic, analytical method for predicting the dense phase structure formed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-24 Nicholas Lauersdorf , Thomas Kolb , Moslem Moradi , Ehssan Nazockdast , Daphne Klotsa

The active Brownian particle (ABP) model is widely used to describe the dynamics of active matter systems, such as Janus microswimmers. In particular, the analytical expression for an ABP's mean-squared-displacement (MSD) is useful as it…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-07 Maximilian Bailey , Alexander Sprenger , Fabio Grillo , Hartmut Löwen , Lucio Isa

Controlled activity of active entities interacting with a passive environment can generate emergent system-level phenomena, positioning such systems as promising platforms for potential downstream applications in targeted drug delivery,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-07 Thomas Jacob , Siddhant Mohapatra , Rajalingam A , Sam Mathew , Pallab Sinha Mahapatra

We study numerically the role of hydrodynamics in the liquid-hexatic transition of active colloids at intermediate activity, where motility induced phase separation (MIPS) does not occur. We show that in the case of active Brownian…

Micron-sized self-propelled (active) particles can be considered as model systems for characterizing more complex biological organisms like swimming bacteria or motile cells. We produce asymmetric microswimmers by soft lithography and study…

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

Replicating efficient and adaptable microbial navigation strategies, such as run and tumble (RnT) and tactic motions to synthetic active agents has been an enduring quest. To this end, we introduce a stochastic orientational reset (SOR)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-29 Sandip Kundu , Dibyendu Mondal , Arup Biswas , Arnab Pal , Manas Khan

Many fascinating properties of biological active matter crucially depend on the capacity of constituting entities to perform directed motion, e.g., molecular motors transporting vesicles inside cells or bacteria searching for food. While…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-21 Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu , Édgar Roldán , Andrea Gambassi , Abhinav Sharma

The Active Brownian Particle (ABP) model has become a prototype of self-propelled particles. ABPs move persistently at a constant speed $V$ along a direction that changes slowly by rotational diffusion, characterized by a coefficient $\Dr$.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-11 Rodrigo Soto

Randomly moving active particles can be herded into directed motion by asymmetric geometric structures. Although such a rectification process has been extensively studied due to its fundamental, biological, and technological relevance, a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 Satyam Anand , Xiaolei Ma , Shuo Guo , Stefano Martiniani , Xiang Cheng

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

The collective properties of a binary mixture of A- and B-type self-steering particles endowed with visual perception are studied by computer simulations. Active Brownian particles are employed with an additional steering mechanism, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-29 Rajendra Singh Negi , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

We present a mode-coupling theory (MCT) for the high-density dynamics of two-dimensional spherical active Brownian particles (ABP). The theory is based on the integration-through-transients (ITT) formalism and hence provides a starting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-20 Alexander Liluashvili , Jonathan Onody , Thomas Voigtmann

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

We consider stochastic dynamics of self-propelled particles with nonlocal normalized alignment interactions subject to phase lag. The role of the lag is to indirectly generate chirality into particle motion. To understand large scale…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-08-12 Nikita Kruk , José A. Carrillo , Heinz Koeppl

Adaptive Informative Path Planning (AIPP) problems model an agent tasked with obtaining information subject to resource constraints in unknown, partially observable environments. Existing work on AIPP has focused on representing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Shushman Choudhury , Nate Gruver , Mykel J. Kochenderfer