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Natural phenomena frequently involve a very large number of interacting molecules moving in confined regions of space. Cellular transport by motor proteins is an example of such collective behavior. We derive a deterministic compartmental…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-01 Yoram Zarai , Michael Margaliot , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

With the aim of understanding the emergence of collective motion from local interactions of organisms in a "noisy" environment, we study biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium models consisting of self-propelled particles. In…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Czirok , T. Vicsek

We complete the kinetic theory of inhomogeneous systems with long-range interactions initiated in previous works. We use a simpler and more physical formalism. We consider a system of particles submitted to a small external stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-23 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Active adaptive matter has attracted considerable interest due to its rich, largely unexplained dynamics and its relevance to a wide range of synthetic and biological materials. An important subclass of such systems consists of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-05 William G. C. Oropesa , P. de Castro , Hartmut Löwen , Danilo B. Liarte

Surface effects are generally prevailing in confined colloidal systems. Here we report on dispersed nanoparticles close to a fluid membrane. Exact results regarding the static organization are derived for a dilute solution of non-adhesive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas Bickel , Mabrouk Benhamou , Hamid Kaidi

We derive a microscopic theory of glassy dynamics based on the transport of voids by micro-string motions, each of which involves particles arranged in a line hopping simultaneously displacing one another. Disorder is modeled by a random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-03-02 Chi-Hang Lam

The recently developed effective field theory of fluctuations around thermal equilibrium is used to compute late-time correlation functions of conserved densities. Specializing to systems with a single conservation law, we find that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-24 Xinyi Chen-Lin , Luca V. Delacrétaz , Sean A. Hartnoll

We present results of simulations for a dilute gas of inelastically colliding particles. Collisions are modelled as a stochastic process, which on average decreases the translational energy (cooling), but allows for fluctuations in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Timo Aspelmeier , Götz Giese , Annette Zippelius

In this study, we investigate the phenomenon of collective motion in binary mixtures of self-propelled particles. We consider two particle species, each of which consisting of pointlike objects that propel with a velocity of constant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-20 Andreas M. Menzel

Empirical contact networks or interaction networks demonstrate peculiar characteristics stemming from the fundamental social, psychological, physical mechanisms governing human interactions. Although these mechanisms are complex, we test…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-20 Razieh Masoumi , Juliette Gambaudo , Mathieu Génois

We present the results of a numerical investigation of charged-particle transport across a synthesized magnetic configuration composed of a constant homogeneous background field and a multiscale perturbation component simulating an effect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Chiaravalloti , Alexander V. Milovanov , Gaetano Zimbardo

We provide a detailed multiscale analysis of a system of particles interacting through a dynamical network of links. Starting from a microscopic model, via the mean field limit, we formally derive coupled kinetic equations for the particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Julien Barré , Pierre Degond , Ewelina Zatorska

We consider particle transport under the influence of time-varying driving forces, where fluctuation relations connect the statistics of pairs of time reversed evolutions of physical observables. In many "mesoscopic" transport processes,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-29 A. Altland , A. De Martino , R. Egger , B. Narozhny

Simplest extensions of single particle dynamics in momentum conserving active fluid - that of an active suspension of two colloidal particles or a single particle confined by a wall - exhibit strong departures from Boltzmann behavior,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-18 Amit Singh Vishen , Jacques Prost , Madan Rao

The functioning and efficiency of natural photosynthetic complexes is strongly influenced by their embedding in a noisy protein environment, which can even serve to enhance the transport efficiency. Interactions with the environment induce…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sebastiaan M. Vlaming , Robert J. Silbey

The dynamics of particles interacting by key-lock binding of attached biomolecules are studied theoretically. Examples of such systems include DNA-functionalized colloids as well as nanoparticles grafted with antibodies to cell membrane…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicholas A. Licata , Alexei V. Tkachenko

We derive the distribution of particle currents for a system of interacting active Brownian particles in the long time limit using large deviation theory and a weighted many body expansion. We find the distribution is non-Gaussian, except…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-19 Trevor GrandPre , David T. Limmer

Granular materials are inherently out-of-equilibrium systems due to energy dissipation through inelastic collisions and friction. When driven by mechanical agitation such as vibration, they exhibit rich collective behaviors including…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-01 Kai Kono , Hiroyuki Ebata , Shio Inagaki

We investigate dynamics of deformable self-propelled particles with a repulsive interaction whose magnitude depends on the relative direction of elongation of a pair of particles. A collective motion of the particles appears in two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 Yu Itino , Takahiro Ohkuma , Takao Ohta

Collective motion is often modeled within the framework of active fluids, where the constituent active particles, when interactions with other particles are switched off, perform normal diffusion at long times. However, in biology,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-02 Andrea Cairoli , Chiu Fan Lee