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Chiral active fluids show the emergence of a turbulent behavior characterized by multiple dynamic vortices whose maximum size is specific for each experimental system. This is in contrast to hydrodynamic simulations in which the size of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-26 Joscha Mecke , Yongxiang Gao , Gerhard Gompper , Marisol Ripoll

Systems of independent active particles embedded into a fluctuating environment are relevant to many areas of soft-matter science. We use a minimal model of noninteracting spin-carrying Brownian particles in a Gaussian field and show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-18 Ruben Zakine , Jean-Baptiste Fournier , Frédéric Van Wijland

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

We study the QCD phase diagram, in particular we study the critical points of the two main QCD phase transitions, confinement and chiral symmetry breaking. Confinement drives chiral symmetry breaking, and, due to the finite quark mass, at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-20 Pedro Bicudo

We have numerically studied the trapping problem in a two-dimensional lattice where particles are continuously generated. We have introduced interaction between particles and directionality of their movement. This model presents a critical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 I. Campos , A. Tarancon

We explore the relation between active Brownian particles, a minimal particle-based model for active matter, and scalar field theories. Both show a liquid-gas-like phase transition towards stable coexistence of a dense liquid with a dilute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-08 Thomas Speck

In this work, we investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics in a one-dimensional two-component anyon-Hubbard model, which can be mapped to an extended Bose-Hubbard ladder with density-dependent hopping phase and synthetic gauge flux. Through…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-23 Rui-Jie Chen , Ying-Xin Huang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Dan-Wei Zhang

We consider the motion of an active Brownian particle with speed fluctuations in d-dimensions in the presence of both translational and orientational diffusion. We use an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process for active speed generation. Using a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-02 Amir Shee , Debasish Chaudhuri

We study dynamical properties of strongly coupled chiral matter by using holographic method. We demonstrate, at both linear and nonlinear levels, that perturbations on thermodynamically unstable backgrounds within the spinodal region of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Pei Zheng , Yidian Chen , Danning Li , Mei Huang , Yu-xin Liu

Active cholesterics are chiral in both their structure, which has continuous screw symmetry, and their active stresses, which include contributions from torque dipoles. Both expressions of chirality give rise to curl forces in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-04 Gareth P. Alexander , S. J. Kole , Ananyo Maitra , Sriram Ramaswamy

We investigate the swim pressure exerted by non-chiral and chiral active particles on convex or concave circular boundaries. Active particles are modeled as non-interacting and non-aligning self-propelled Brownian particles. The convex and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-01 Tayeb Jamali , Ali Naji

Hydrodynamic interactions can generate rich emergent structures in active matter systems. Using large-scale hydrodynamic simulations, we demonstrate that hydrodynamic coupling alone can drive spontaneous self-organization across a hierarchy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-17 Zaiyi Shen , Leilei Wang , Shishuang Zhang , Chenlu Li , Kaili Xie , Xu Zheng , Juho S. Lintuvuori

Cyclic transitions between active and passive states are central to many natural and synthetic systems, ranging from light-driven active particles to animal migrations. Here, we investigate a minimal model of self-propelled Brownian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-28 Ye Zhang , Duanduan Wan

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of semiflexible polymers driven by motor proteins (MPs) in two-dimensional motility assays under harmonic confinement. Using a coarse-grained agent-based model that incorporates stochastic motor…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 Sandip Roy , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Anil Kumar Dasanna

Strongly interacting one-dimensional fermions form an effective spin chain in the absence of an external lattice potential. We show that the exchange coefficients of such a chain may be locally tuned by properly tailoring the transversal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-02 Frank Deuretzbacher , Luis Santos

Physics is an experimental science; and a constructive feedback between theory and extant and forthcoming experiments is necessary if an understanding of nonperturbative QCD is to be achieved. The Dyson-Schwinger equations connect…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-01-20 Lei Chang , Craig D. Roberts , David J. Wilson

Via computer simulations we study kinetics of pattern formation in a two-dimensional active matter system. Self-propulsion in our model is incorporated via the Vicsek-like activity, i.e., particles have the tendency of aligning their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-26 Saikat Chakraborty , Subir K. Das

We present a classical and quantum analysis of a particle confined in a three-dimensional paraboloidal cavity formed by two confocal paraboloids. Classically, the system is integrable and presents three independent constants of motion,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Ángel E. Reyna-Cruz , Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega

Curvature plays a central role in the proper function of many biological processes. With active matter being a standard framework for understanding many aspects of the physics of life, it is natural to ask what effect curvature has on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-27 Euan D. Mackay , Giulia Janzen , D. A. Matoz Fernandez , Rastko Sknepnek

We consider the two dimensional motion of a particle into a confining potential, subjected to Brownian forces, associated with two different temperatures on the orthogonal directions. Exact solutions are obtained for an asymmetric harmonic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-23 Vincent Mancois , Bruno Marcos , Pascal Viot , David Wilkowski