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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,…

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We consider a continuum model for motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) of active Brownian particles [J. Chem. Phys. 142, 224149 (2015)]. Using a recently introduced perturbative analysis [Phys. Rev. E 98, 020604(R) (2018)], we show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-02 Lisa Rapp , Fabian Bergmann , Walter Zimmermann

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of active matter using a two-dimensional active Brownian particles model. In these systems, self-propelled particles undergo motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), spontaneously segregating into…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-26 Toranosuke Umemura , Issei Sakai , Takuma Akimoto

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

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) with pure repulsion is an ideal model to understand the effect of nonequilibrium on collective behaviors. It has long been established that activity can create effective attractions leading to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-01 Jie Su , Mengkai Feng , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

We perform a coarse-graining analysis of the paradigmatic active matter model, Active Brownian Particles, yielding a continuum description in terms of balance laws for mass, linear and angular momentum, and energy. The derivation of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-30 Jeffrey M. Epstein , Katherine Klymko , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

In this work, we study the dynamics of a single active Brownian particle, as well as the collective behavior of interacting active Brownian particles, in a fluctuating heterogeneous environment. We employ a variant of the diffusing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 S. M. J. Khadem , N. H. Siboni , S. H. L. Klapp

We study interacting active Brownian particles (ABPs) with a space-dependent swim velocity via simulation and theory. We find that, although an equation of state exists, a mechanical equilibrium does not apply to ABPs in activity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-13 Adam Wysocki , Anil K. Dasanna , Heiko Rieger

We review theoretical models of individual motility as well as collective dynamics and pattern formation of active particles. We focus on simple models of active dynamics with a particular emphasis on nonlinear and stochastic dynamics of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Pawel Romanczuk , Markus Bär , Werner Ebeling , Benjamin Lindner , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Minimal models of active Brownian colloids consisting of self-propelled spherical particles with purely repulsive interactions have recently been identified as excellent quantitative testing grounds for theories of active matter and have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-12 M. Cristina Marchetti , Yaouen Fily , Silke Henkes , Adam Patch , David Yllanes

We derive from first principles the mechanical pressure $P$, defined as the force per unit area on a bounding wall, in a system of spherical, overdamped, active Brownian particles at density $\rho$. Our exact result relates $P$, in closed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-10 A. P. Solon , J. Stenhammar , R. Wittkowski , M. Kardar , Y. Kafri , M. E. Cates , J. Tailleur

Off-lattice active Brownian particles form clusters and undergo phase separation even in the absence of attractions or velocity-alignment mechanisms. Arguments that explain this phenomenon appeal only to the ability of particles to move…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-28 Stephen Whitelam , Katherine Klymko , Dibyendu Mandal

Suspensions of purely repulsive but self-propelled Brownian particles might undergo phase separation, a phenomenon that strongly resembles the phase separation of passive particles with attractions. Here we employ computer simulations to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-05 David Richard , Hartmut Löwen , Thomas Speck

We demonstrate that deep learning techniques can be used to predict motility induced phase separation (MIPS) in suspensions of active Brownian particles (ABPs) by creating a notion of phase at the particle level. Using a fully connected…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-19 Austin R. Dulaney , John F. Brady

In the high persistence regime of non-inertial active Brownian particles (ABP), polarization becomes a relevant dynamical field. Based on a recently proposed kinetic description for ABP, we derive Navier-Stokes-like equations for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-21 Martín Pinto-Goldberg , Rodrigo Soto

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) serve as a minimal model of active matter systems. When ABPs are sufficiently persistent, they undergo a liquid-gas phase separation and, in the presence of obstacles, accumulate around them, forming a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-16 Pablo Perez-Bastías , Rodrigo Soto

We derive an analytic expression for the mechanical pressure of a generic one-dimensional model of confined active Brownian particles (ABPs) that is valid for all values of Peclet number Pe and all confining scenarios. Our model reproduces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-30 Paolo Malgaretti , Piotr Nowakowski , Holger Stark

We present the Brownian dynamics simulation of active colloidal suspension in two dimensions, where the self-propulsion speed of a colloid is regulated according to the local density sensed by it. The role of concentration-dependent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-29 Francis Jose , Shalabh K. Anand , Sunil P. Singh

Active Brownian particles (ABPs, such as self-phoretic colloids) swim at fixed speed $v$ along a body-axis ${\bf u}$ that rotates by slow angular diffusion. Run-and-tumble particles (RTPs, such as motile bacteria) swim with constant $\u$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-27 M. E. Cates , J. Tailleur

The structural and dynamical properties of suspensions of self-propelled Brownian particles of spherical shape are investigated in three spatial dimensions. Our simulations reveal a phase separation into a dilute and a dense phase, above a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-12 Adam Wysocki , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper