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Jerky active particles are Brownian self-propelled particles which are dominated by ``jerk'', the change in acceleration. They represent a generalization of inertial active particles. In order to describe jerky active particles, a linear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-15 Hartmut Löwen

We develop a closed-form analytical theory for the transport of a chiral active Brownian particle (cABP) in three dimensions, moving through a fluctuating local density field that coarse-grains steric and dynamical interactions in a dense…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-25 Jayam Joshi , Shradha Mishra

One of the most intriguing phenomena in active matter has been the gas-liquid like motility induced phase separation (MIPS) observed in repulsive active particles. However, experimentally no particle can be a perfect sphere, and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-20 Zhan Ma , Ran Ni

The diffusion of chiral active Brownian particles in three-dimensional space is studied analytically, by consideration of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation for the probability density of finding a particle at position…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Francisco J. Sevilla

Self-propelled particles rarely move in straight lines; environmental interactions, shape asymmetry, and intrinsic torques generically induce curved or fluctuating trajectories. In biological and synthetic systems, this curvature often…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-06 Diganta Bhaskar , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Anil Kumar Dasanna

Chiral active Brownian particles (CABPs) are self-propelled agents with intrinsic rotational dynamics, giving rise to circular trajectories commonly observed in biological and synthetic microswimmers. Understanding how CABPs explore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Mingfeng Qiu , Zhiwei Peng

In this two-part study, we investigate the motion of rigid, active objects in shear Stokes flow, focusing on bodies that induce rapid rotation as part of their activity. In Part 2, we derive and analyse governing equations for rapidly…

Collective rotations are common in active matter, enhancing cohesion, transport, and mixing. They are typically attributed to chiral non-reciprocal dynamics due to intrinsic particle chirality, torque-generating interactions among units, or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-20 Maks Pečnik Bambič , Nuno A. M. Araújo , Giorgio Volpe

We present an exact, time-resolved theory for a two-dimensional chiral active Brownian particle (cABP) with translational inertia. Using a Laplace-transform moment hierarchy, we derive closed-form expressions for the mean velocity,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-25 Anweshika Pattanayak , Sandip Roy , Abhishek Chaudhuri

Chiral active matter is a variant of active matter systems in which the motion of the constituent particles violates mirror symmetry. In this letter, we simulate two-dimensional chiral Active Brownian Particles, the simplest chiral model in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-03 Kangeun Jeong , Yuta Kuroda , Yuki Asatani , Takeshi Kawasaki , Kunimasa Miyazaki

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

We investigate the interplay between chirality and confinement in harmonically trapped active particles. The circular character of chiral motion combines with the radial symmetry of the potential to create distinctive non-equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-23 Hrithik Barman

Active matter exhibits many intriguing non-equilibrium character, \emph{e.g.}, the active Brownian particles (ABP) without any attractive and aligned interactions can occur the mobility-induced phase transition to form some dense domains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-24 Cheng Yang , Ying Zeng , Shun Xu , Xin Zhou

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 investigate the competing effects of simultaneous presence of chirality and generalised tumbles in the dynamics of an active Brownian particle. Chiral active particles perform circular motions that give rise to slow transport at late…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-17 Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Hartmut Löwen

In this paper, we discuss microscopic models for chiral active particles, i.e., rotating active units that exhibit circular or spinning motion. While non-chiral active particles are typically governed by self-propulsion and conservative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-20 Lorenzo Caprini , Alessandro Petrini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

The active Brownian particle (ABP) model describes a swimmer, synthetic or living, whose direction of swimming is a Brownian motion. The swimming is due to a propulsion force, and the fluctuations are typically thermal in origin. We present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-18 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Jiajia Guo

Perception-reaction delays have experimentally been found to cause a spontaneous circling of microswimmers around a targeted center. Here we investigate the many-body version of this experiment with Brownian-dynamics simulations of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-28 Pin-Chuan Chen , Klaus Kroy , Frank Cichos , Xiangzun Wang , Viktor Holubec

Chiral active particles (CAPs) are self-propelling particles that break time-reversal symmetry by orbiting or spinning, leading to intriguing behaviors. Here, we examined the dynamics of CAPs moving in 2D lattices of disk obstacles through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-20 Chung Wing Chan , Daihui Wu , Kaiyao Qiao , Kin Long Fong , Zhiyu Yang , Yilong Han , Rui Zhang

There are many examples of driven and active matter systems containing particles that exhibit circular motion with different chiralities, such as swimming bacteria near surfaces or certain types of self-driven colloidal particles. Circular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt
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