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Motility induced phase separation is an efficient aggregation mechanism of active matter, yet biological systems exhibit richer organization through communication among constituents. We investigate suspensions of active particles that…

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The emergence of clustering and coarsening in crowded ensembles of self-propelled agents is studied using a lattice model in one-dimension. The persistent exclusion process, where particles move at directions that change randomly at a low…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-24 Nestor Sepulveda , Rodrigo Soto

We study a two-species bidirectional exclusion process, and a single species variant, which is motivated by the motion of organelles and vesicles along microtubules. Specifically, we are interested in the clustering of the particles and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-17 Jim Chacko , Sudipto Muhuri , Goutam Tripathy

Mutually repelling particles form spontaneously ordered clusters when forced into confinement. The clusters may adopt similar spatial arrangements even if the underlying particle interactions are contrastingly different. Here we demonstrate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-13 P. D. S. de Lima , R. De La Cour , K. Gaff , J. M. de Araújo , S. J. Cox , M. S. Ferreira , S. Hutzler

We give a quantitative analysis of clustering in a stochastic model of one-dimensional gas. At time zero, the gas consists of $n$ identical particles that are randomly distributed on the real line and have zero initial speeds. Particles…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Vladislav V. Vysotsky

We introduce a novel model for active particles with short-range aligning interactions and study their behaviour in crowded environments using numerical simulations. When only active particles are present, we observe a transition from a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Simon Nilsson , Giovanni Volpe

The open quantum system eigenstate in the vicinity of low-energy decay channel may mimic its features, in particular the characteristic clustering properties of the decay channel. This generic mechanism of clusterization, the so-called…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 J. P. Linares Fernandez , N. Michel , M. Płoszajczak

We study the behaviour of catalytically active droplets in multi-component conserved mixtures affected by noise. Working in the thin interface limit, we analytically determine the state diagram of the system, characterized by multiple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-01 Jacopo Romano , Martin Kjøllesdal Johnsrud , Benoît Mahault , Ramin Golestanian

We investigate the transport properties of particles driven by colored noise in a flashing ratchet potential, focusing on both non-interacting and single-file interacting regimes. The model incorporates memory effects via a non-Markovian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-18 Karina I. Mazzitello , Daniel G. Zarlenga , Constancio M. Arizmendi

In this paper, we explore experimentally the phase behavior of a dense active suspension of self- propelled colloids. In addition to a solid-like and a gas-like phase observed for high and low densities, a novel cluster phase is reported at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 I. Theurkauff , C. Cottin-Bizonne , J. Palacci , C. Ybert , L. Bocquet

Motility and nonreciprocity are two primary mechanisms for self-organization in active matter. In a recent study [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148301 (2023)], we explored their joint influence in a minimal model of two-species quorum-sensing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-15 Yu Duan , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian , Benoît Mahault

Quantum many-body systems coupled to out-of-equilibrium reservoirs can behave as active matter and exhibit signs of flocking. However, the resulting steady states are highly mixed and carry only weak quantum signatures. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Jacob F. Steiner , Felix von Oppen , Reinhold Egger

To study the interplay of jamming, cluster formation, and motility-induced phase separation in the zero temperature limit in two dimensions, we consider a simple model system consisting of a bidisperse mixture of disks that are only subject…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-16 Michael Schmiedeberg

We study gravitational clustering of mass points in three dimensions with random initial positions and periodic boundary conditions (no expansion) by numerical simulations. Correlation properties are well defined in the system and a sort of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Bottaccio , A. Amici , P. Miocchi , R. Capuzzo Dolcetta , M. Montuori , L. Pietronero

We examine a two-dimensional system of sterically repulsive interacting disks where each particle runs in a random direction. This system is equivalent to a run-and-tumble dynamics system in the limit where the run time is infinite. At low…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-06 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Clusters appear in nature in a diversity of contexts, involving distances as long as the cosmological ones, and down to atoms and molecules and the very small nuclear size. They also appear in several other scenarios, in particular in…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-19 D. Bazeia , M. V. de Moraes , B. F. de Oliveira

We present molecular dynamics simulations of aggregation kinetics in a colloidal suspension modeled as a highly asymmetric binary mixture. Starting from a configuration with largely uncorrelated colloidal particles the system relaxes by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sorin Bastea

In a stationary ergodic process, clustering is defined as the tendency of events to appear in series of increased frequency separated by longer breaks. Such behavior, contradicting the theoretical "unbiased behavior" with exponential…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-10-27 Tomasz Downarowicz , Yves Lacroix , Didier Léandri

Non-aligning self-propelled particles with purely repulsive excluded volume interactions undergo athermal motility-induced phase separation into a dilute gas and a dense cluster phase. Here, we use enhanced sampling computational methods…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-05 Gabriel S. Redner , Caleb G. Wagner , Aparna Baskaran , Michael F. Hagan

The effect of short-term and long-term memory on spontaneous aggregation of organisms is investigated using a stochastic agent-based model. Each individual modulates the amplitude of its random motion according to the perceived local…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Radek Erban , Jan Haskovec