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We study a polar tracer, having a concave surface, immersed in a two-dimensional suspension of active particles. Using Brownian dynamics simulations, we measure the distributions and auto-correlation functions of forces and torque exerted…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-30 Milos Knezevic , Holger Stark

We consider the solid or hexatic non-equilibrium phases of an interacting two-dimensional system of Active Brownian Particles at high density and investigate numerically and theoretically the properties of the velocity distribution function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-16 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We numerically study the dynamics and the phases of self-propelled disk-shaped particles of different sizes with soft repulsive potential in two dimensions. Size diversity is introduced by the polydispersity index (PDI) $\epsilon$, which is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-28 Sameer Kumar , Jay Prakash Singh , Debaprasad Giri , Shradha Mishra

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

The general problem of tracer diffusion in non-equilibrium baths is important in a wide range of systems, from the cellular level to geographical lengthscales. In this paper, we revisit the archetypical example of such a system: a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-08 Henrik Nordanger , Alexander Morozov , Joakim Stenhammar

We study a minimal model of self-propelled particle in a crowded single-file environment. We extend classical models of exclusion processes (previously analyzed for diffusive and driven tracer particles) to the case where the tracer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Thibault Bertrand , Pierre Illien , Olivier Bénichou , Raphaël Voituriez

In the last decade, the study of pressure in active matter has attracted growing attention due to its fundamental relevance to nonequilibrium statistical physics. Active matter systems are composed of particles that consume energy to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-14 Guo Yu , Ruiyao Li , Fukang Li , Jiayu Zhang , Xiyue Li , Zequ Chen , Joscha Mecke , Yongxiang Gao

We study the phase behavior of polar Active Brownian Particles moving in two-spatial dimensions and interacting through volume exclusion and velocity alignment. We combine particle-based simulations of the microscopic model with a simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-26 Elena Sese-Sansa , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Demian Levis

A microscopic theory of molecular motion in classical monatomic liquids, proposed by Glass and Rice [Phy. Rev. 176, 239 (1968)], is revisited and extended to incorporate the dynamic friction in the Brownian description of the atomic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-10 Kirit N. Lad , Margi K. Patel , Arun Pratap

The two-dimensional Active Brownian Particles system is meant to be composed of hard disks, that show excluded volume interactions, usually simulated via molecular dynamics using pure repulsive potentials. We show that the softness of the…

Active particles which are self-propelled by converting energy into mechanical motion represent an expanding research realm in physics and chemistry. For micron-sized particles moving in a liquid ("microswimmers"), most of the basic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-19 Hartmut Löwen

Using the method of Brownian dynamics, we investigate the dynamic properties of a 2d suspension of active disks at high P\'eclet numbers using active microrheology. In our simulations the tracer particle is driven either by a constant or an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-24 M. Knezevic , L. E. Aviles Podgurski , H. Stark

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

Suspensions of self-propelled objects represent a novel paradigm in colloidal science. In such active baths traditional concepts, such as Brownian motion, fluctuation-dissipation relations, and work extraction from heat reservoirs, must be…

In this article, we present the collective dynamics of active dumbbells in the presence of a static circular obstacle using Brownian dynamics simulation. The active dumbbells aggregate on the surface of a circular obstacle beyond a critical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-12 Chandranshu Tiwari , Sunil P. Singh

We consider a model of Non-Brownian self-propelled particles with anti-alignment interactions where particles try to avoid each other by attempting to turn into opposite directions. The particles undergo apparent Brownian motion, even…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-07 Thomas Ihle , Rüdiger Kürsten , Benjamin Lindner

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 mean first passage time (MFPT) is a key metric for understanding transport, search, and escape processes in stochastic systems. While well characterized for passive Brownian particles, its behavior in active systems-such as active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-22 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Zhiwei Peng

We study a minimal model of active transport in crowded single-file environments which generalises the emblematic model of single file diffusion to the case when the tracer particle (TP) performs either an autonomous directed motion or is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-13 P. Illien , O. Bénichou , C. Mejía-Monasterio , G. Oshanin , R. Voituriez
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