English
Related papers

Related papers: How Quorum Sensing Shapes Clustering in Active Mat…

200 papers

Systems comprised of self-steering active Brownian particles are studied via simulations for a minimal cognitive flocking model. The dynamics of the active Brownian particles is extended by an orientational response with limited…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Rajendra Singh Negi , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

We present computer simulations of concentrated solutions of unknotted nonconcatenated semiflexible ring polymers. Unlike in their flexible counterparts, shrinking involves a strong energetic penalty, favoring interpenetration and…

We show that stimulated scattering of an isolated system of N Bose particles with initially broad energy distribution can yield condensation of particles into excited collective state in which most of the bosons occupy one or several modes.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-31 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky , Luqi Yuan , Marlan O. Scully

Rotating clusters or vortices are formations of agents that rotate around a common center. These patterns may be found in very different contexts: from swirling fish to surveillance drones. Here, we propose a minimal model for…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-05-16 Julia Cantisán , Jesús M. Seoane , Miguel A. F. Sanjuán

Static nonreciprocal forces between particles generically drive persistent motion reminiscent of self-propulsion. Here, we demonstrate that reciprocity-breaking fluctuations about a reciprocal mean coupling strength are sufficient to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-18 Luca Cocconi , Henry Alston , Thibault Bertrand

Self-organization phenomena in ensembles of self-propelled particles open pathways to the synthesis of new dynamic states not accessible by traditional equilibrium processes. The challenge is to develop a set of principles that facilitate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-26 Bo Zhang , Alexey Snezhko , Andrey Sokolov

We describe simulations of active Brownian particles carried out to explore how dynamics and clustering are influenced by particle shape. Our particles are composed of four disks, held together by springs, whose relative size can be varied.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-07 Joshua Eglinton , Mike I. Smith , Michael R. Swift

The coherent dynamics of bubble clusters in liquid are of fundamental and industrial importance and are elusive due to the complex interactions of disordered bubble oscillations. Here we introduce and demonstrate unsupervised learning of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-03 Kazuki Maeda , Daniel Fuster

Based on statistical approach we described possible formation of spatially inhomogeneous distribution in the system of interacting Fermi particles by long-rage forces, and we demonstrated nonperturbative calculation of the partition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. V. Grigorishin , B. I. Lev

Collective quantum states are often associated with extended systems, where spatially extensive degrees of freedom enable emergent many-body behavior; whether such strongly correlated states survive at atomic dimensions remains a…

Colloidal particles, amphiphiles, and functionalized nanoparticles are examples of systems that frequently exhibit short-range attractions coupled with long-range repulsions. In this work, we observe striking differences in the dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-01 Jakub Pȩkalski , Andrew P. Santos , Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos

We show that sterically interacting self-propelled disks in the presence of random pinning substrates exhibit transitions among a variety of different states. In particular, from a phase separated cluster state, the disks can spread out and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-06 Cs. Sándor , A. Libál , C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

When dense granular gases are continuously excited under microgravity conditions, spatial inhomogeneities of the particle number density can emerge. A significant share of particles may collect in strongly overpopulated regions, called…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-19 Sai Preetham Sata , Ralf Stannarius , Benjamin Noack , Dmitry Puzyrev

We consider swarms formed by populations of self-propelled particles with attractive long-range interactions. These swarms represent multistable dynamical systems and can be found either in coherent traveling states or in an incoherent…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-31 A. S. Mikhailov , D. H. Zanette

Using computer simulations, we identify the mechanisms causing aggregation and structural arrest of colloidal suspensions interacting with a short-ranged attraction at moderate and high densities. Two different non-ergodicity transitions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Antonio M. Puertas , Matthias Fuchs , Michael E. Cates

There are two modes by which clusters of aggregating particles can coalesce: The clusters can merge either (i) by the Ostwald ripening process in which particles diffuse from one cluster to the other whilst the cluster centres remain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-13 Andrey Pototsky , Uwe Thiele , Andrew J. Archer

Colloidal systems present exciting opportunities to study clusters. Unlike atomic clusters, which are frequently produced at extremely low density, colloidal clusters may interact with one another. Here we consider the effect of such…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-01-20 Alex Malins , Stephen R. Williams , Jens Eggers , Hajime Tanaka , C. Patrick Royall

The settling of colloidal particles with short-ranged attractions is investigated via highly resolved immersed boundary simulations. At modest volume fractions, we show that inter-colloid attractions lead to clustering that reduces the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-29 Andrew M. Fiore , Gang Wang , James W. Swan

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

Flocking, as paradigmatically exemplified by birds, is the coherent collective motion of active agents. As originally conceived, flocking emerges through alignment interactions between the agents. Here, we report that flocking can also…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-16 Suchismita Das , Matteo Ciarchi , Ziqi Zhou , Jing Yan , Jie Zhang , Ricard Alert