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We study critical dynamics and phase-ordering kinetics in Active Model B (AMB) and its minimal extension, Active Model B$+$ (AMB$+$), using deterministic simulations in two dimensions. At criticality $r_c=0$, both models display identical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-09 Abir Bhowmick , P. K. Mohanty

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

The aim of this paper is to discuss the mathematical modeling of Brownian active particle systems, a recently popular paradigmatic system for self-propelled particles. We present four microscopic models with different types of repulsive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-31 M. Bruna , M. Burger , A. Esposito , S. M. Schulz

Active Brownian particles (ABPs), when subject to purely repulsive interactions, are known to undergo activity-induced phase separation broadly resembling an equilibrium (attraction-induced) gas-liquid coexistence. Here we present an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-04 Joakim Stenhammar , Adriano Tiribocchi , Rosalind J. Allen , Davide Marenduzzo , Michael E. Cates

As a result of nonequilibrium forces, purely repulsive self-propelled particles undergo macrophase separation between a dense and a dilute phase. We present a thorough study of the ordering kinetics of such motility-induced phase separation…

Recently, there has been much interest in activity-induced phase separations in concentrated suspensions of "active Brownian particles" (ABPs), self-propelled spherical particles whose direction of motion relaxes through thermal rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-13 Joakim Stenhammar , Davide Marenduzzo , Rosalind J. Allen , Michael E. Cates

We perform a comprehensive study on the role of thermal noise on the ordering kinetics of a collection of active Brownian particles modeled using coarse-grained conserved active model B (AMB). The ordering kinetics of the system is studied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-01 Shambhavi Dikshit , Sudipta Pattanayak , Shradha Mishra , Sanjay Puri

Active systems, or active matter, are self-driven systems which live, or function, far from equilibrium - a paradigmatic example which we focus on here is provided by a suspension of self-motile particles. Active systems are far from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Giuseppe Gonnella , Davide Marenduzzo , Antonio Suma , Adriano Tiribocchi

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

We study the ordering kinetics of an assembly of {\it active Brownian particles} (ABPs) on a two-dimensional substrate. We use a coarse-grained equation for the composition order parameter $\psi ({\bf r},t)$, where ${\bf r}$ and $t$ denote…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-16 Sudipta Pattanayak , Shradha Mishra , Sanjay Puri

The effect of curvature on an ensemble of repulsive active Brownian particles (ABPs) moving on a spherical surface is studied. Surface curvature strongly affects the dynamics of ABPs, as it introduces a new time scale $\tau=R/v_0$, with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Priyanka Iyer , Roland G. Winkler , Dmitry A. Fedosov , Gerhard Gompper

In this study, we investigate the behavior of free inertial Active Brownian Particles (ABP) in the presence of thermal noise. While finding a closed-form solution for the joint distribution of positions, orientations, and velocities using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-08 Manish Patel , Debasish Chaudhuri

We computationally study suspensions of slow and fast active Brownian particles that have undergone motility induced phase separation and are at steady state. Such mixtures, of varying non-zero activity, remain largely unexplored even…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-11 Nicholas J Lauersdorf , Ehssan Nazockdast , Daphne Klotsa

We investigate the collective dynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) subjected to a steady two-dimensional four-roll-mill flow using numerical simulations. By varying the packing fraction ($\phi$), we uncover a novel flow-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Soni D. Prajapati , Kusum Seervi , Akshay Bhatnagar , Anupam Gupta

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

In contrast to equilibrium systems, inertia can profoundly impact the phase behavior of active systems. This has been made particularly evident in recent years, with motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) exhibiting several intriguing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-21 Jiechao Feng , Ahmad K. Omar

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

In this work, we report a new method to simulate active Brownian particles (ABPs) in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Immersed in a fluid, each ABP consists of a head particle and a spherical phantom region of fluid where the flagellum…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-15 Liya Wang , Xinpeng Xu , Zhigang Li , Tiezheng Qian

The co-localization of density modulations and particle polarization is a characteristic emergent feature of motile active matter in activity gradients. It can therefore play the role of a smoking gun for the mesoscale detection of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Sven Auschra , Viktor Holubec , Nicola Andreas Söker , Frank Cichos , Klaus Kroy

We give an overview over recent studies on the model of Active Brownian Motion (ABM) coupled to reservoirs providing free energy which may be converted into kinetic energy of motion. First, we present an introduction to a general concept of…

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