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Recent studies of active colloidal matter have revealed that a global polar order can arise from chemorepulsive interactions among particles without any explicit alignment interaction between them. In this work, we investigate such…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-05 Sagarika Adhikary , Rajesh Singh

Mechanical non-reciprocity-manifested as asymmetric responses to opposing mechanical stimuli-has traditionally been achieved through intricate structural nonlinearities in metamaterials. However, continuum solids with inherent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-17 Chang Xu , Shuaihu Wang , Hong Wang , Xu Liu , Zemin Liu , Yiqiu Zhao , Wenqi Hu , Qin Xu

We combine experiments, theory, and simulations to investigate the coexistence of nonequilibrium phases emerging from interacting colloidal particles that are electrokinetically propelled in a nematic liquid crystal solvent. We directly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-27 Josep M. Pagès , Arthur V. Straube , Pietro Tierno , Jordi Ignés-Mullol , Francesc Sagués

Consider a discrete-time quantum walk on the $N$-cycle subject to decoherence both on the coin and the position degrees of freedom. By examining the evolution of the density matrix of the system, we derive some new conclusions about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-20 Chaobin Liu , Nelson Petulante

Collective actuation in active solids - the spontaneous coherent excitation of a few vibrational modes - emerges from a feedback between structural deformations and the orientation of active forces. It is an excellent candidate as a basic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-21 Paul Baconnier , Mathéo Aksil , Vincent Démery , Olivier Dauchot

Inert particles suspended in active fluids of self-propelled particles are known to often exhibit enhanced diffusion and novel coherent structures. Here we numerically investigate the dynamical behavior and self-organization in a system…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-04 Kyongmin Yeo , Enkeleida Lushi , Petia M. Vlahovska

The phase behavior of charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions is modeled by a combination of response theory for electrostatic interparticle interactions and variational theory for free energies. Integrating out degrees of freedom of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Alan R. Denton

Monodisperse, purely repulsive, hard spheres (MPRHS) are an important model system for mechanistically exploring phase behavior in atomic systems and colloids. Since the 1940s, phase transitions in these systems have been obtained via…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-05 J. Galen Wang , Umesh Dhumal , Monica E. A. Zakhari , Roseanna N. Zia

This work introduces a new theoretical model for active matter ("complementary-spins" or c-spins), exploring the interplay of positional and orientational order in mobile agents with rotational freedom, divided into two populations with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-20 Alessandro Scirè

In this paper, we report a Brownian dynamics simulation of the mobility-induced phase separation which occurs in a two-dimensional binary mixture of active soft Brownian particles, whose interactions are modeled by non-additive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-23 D. Jiménez-Flores , A. Rodríguez-Rivas , J. M. Romero-Enrique

Composite system is studied in noncommutative phase space with preserved rotational symmetry. We find conditions on the parameters of noncommutativity on which commutation relations for coordinates and momenta of the center-of-mass of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 Kh. P. Gnatenko , V. M. Tkachuk

We investigate the transport of interacting active run-and-tumble particles moving under an external drift force through a periodic array of obstacles for increasing drive amplitudes. For high activity where the system forms a motility…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We review recent experimental, numerical, and analytical results on active suspensions of self-propelled colloidal beads moving in (quasi) two dimensions. Active colloids form part of the larger theme of active matter, which is noted for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-03 Julian Bialké , Thomas Speck , Hartmut Löwen

In the presence of wave dissipation, phase-space structures emerge in nonlinear Vlasov dynamics. Their dynamics can lead to a nonlinear continuous shifting of the wave frequency (chirping). This report summarizes my personal contribution to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-11-08 Maxime Lesur

In this work we have characterized the phase behaviour and the dynamics of bidimensional mixtures of active and passive Brownian particles. We have evaluated state diagrams at several concentrations of the passive components finding that,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-12 Diego Rogel Rodriguez , Francisco Alarcon , Raul Martinez , Jorge Ramirez , Chantal Valeriani

Active particles contain internal degrees of freedom with the ability to take in and dissipate energy and, in the process, execute systematic movement. Examples include all living organisms and their motile constituents such as molecular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Sriram Ramaswamy

Static nonreciprocal forces between particles generically drive persistent motion reminiscent of self-propulsion. Here, we demonstrate that reciprocity-breaking fluctuations about a reciprocal mean coupling strength are sufficient to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-18 Luca Cocconi , Henry Alston , Thibault Bertrand

In recent years, nonreciprocally coupled systems have received growing attention. Previous work has shown that the interplay of nonreciprocal coupling and Goldstone modes can drive the emergence of temporal order such as traveling waves. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-04-23 Fridtjof Brauns , M. Cristina Marchetti

A one dimensional stochastic exclusion process with two species of particles, $+$ and $-$, is studied where density of each species can fluctuate but the total particle density is conserved. From the exact stationary state weights we show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-10 Urna Basu

Progress in the creation of large scale, artificial quantum coherent structures demands the investigation of their nonequilibrium dynamics when strong interactions, even between remote parts, are non-perturbative. Analysis of multiparticle…