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We investigate the behavior of self-propelled particles under cyclic stretching, inspired by the characteristic pattern dynamics observed in microtubule (MT) motility assays subjected to uniaxial cyclic substrate stretching. We develop a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-27 Takumi Tagaki , Seiya Nishikawa , Shuji Ishihara

Inert particles suspended in active fluids of self-propelled particles are known to often exhibit enhanced diffusion and novel coherent structures. Here we numerically investigate the dynamical behavior and self-organization in a system…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-04 Kyongmin Yeo , Enkeleida Lushi , Petia M. Vlahovska

Collections of self-propelled particles that move persistently by continuously consuming free energy are a paradigmatic example of active matter. In these systems, unlike Brownian "hot colloids", the breakdown of detailed balance yields a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-12 Suraj Shankar , M. Cristina Marchetti

A remarkable feat of active matter physics is that systems as diverse as collections of self-propelled particles, nematics mixed with molecular motors, and interacting robots can all be described by symmetry-based continuum theories. These…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-28 Jack Binysh , Guido Baardink , Jonas Veenstra , Corentin Coulais , Anton Souslov

Active particles, which are self-propelled nonequilibrium systems, are modelled by overdamped Langevin equations with colored noise, emulating the self-propulsion. In this chapter, we present a review of the theoretical results for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-12 Urna Basu , Sanjib Sabhapandit , Ion Santra

In this work we study analytically and numerically the transport properties of non-interacting active particles moving on a $d$-dimensional disordered media. The disorder in the space is modeled by means of a set of non-overlapping…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-20 R. Salgado-García

Dynamics of active or self-propulsive Brownian particles in nonequilibrium status, has recently attracted great interest in many fields including biological entities and artificial micro/nanoscopic motors6. Understanding of their dynamics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-18 Xuewen Fu , Bin Chen , Jau Tang , Ahmed H. Zewail

We revisit the elementary problem of moving a particle in a harmonic trap in finite time with minimal work cost, and extend it to the case of an active particle. By comparing the Gaussian case of an Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-16 Janik Schüttler , Rosalba Garcia-Millan , Michael E. Cates , Sarah A. M. Loos

Suspensions of motile active particles with space dependent activity form characteristic polarization and density patterns. Recent single-particle studies for planar activity landscapes identified several quantities associated with emergent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Sven Auschra , Viktor Holubec

We show from experiments and simulations on vibration-activated granular matter that self-propelled polar rods in an elastic medium on a substrate turn and move towards each other. We account for this effective attraction through a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-08 Rahul Kumar Gupta , Raushan Kant , Harsh Soni , A. K. Sood , Sriram Ramaswamy

Anomalous diffusion, manifest as a nonlinear temporal evolution of the position mean square displacement, and/or non-Gaussian features of the position statistics, is prevalent in biological transport processes. Likewise, collective behavior…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-01 Andrea Cairoli , Chiu Fan Lee

Active particles under soft confinement such as droplets or vesicles present intriguing phenomena, as collective motion emerges alongside the deformation of the environment. A model is employed to systematically investigate droplet…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-25 Javier Diaz , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Active particle systems are a class of non-equilibrium systems composed of self-propelled Brownian particles; through interactions between particles within the system, a variety of intriguing collective behaviors can emerge. Based on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-25 Sihang Guo , Guangyu Yang , Guoqing Meng , Yingying Wang , Junxing Pan , Jinjun Zhang

Recent studies have highlighted the sensitivity of active matter to boundaries and their geometries. Here we develop a general theory for the dynamics and statistics of active particles on curved surfaces and illustrate it on two examples.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-15 Yaouen Fily , Aparna Baskaran , Michael F. Hagan

We study the motion of a Brownian particle subjected to Lorentz force due to an external magnetic field. Each spatial degree of freedom of the particle is coupled to a different thermostat. We show that the magnetic field results in…

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

The collective properties of a binary mixture of A- and B-type self-steering particles endowed with visual perception are studied by computer simulations. Active Brownian particles are employed with an additional steering mechanism, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-29 Rajendra Singh Negi , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

Active matter is a new class of material, intrinsically out-of equilibrium with intriguing properties. So far, the recent upsurge of studies has mostly focused on the spontaneous behavior of these systems --in the absence of external…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-28 Nicolas Waisbord , Christopher Lefevre , Lyderic Bocquet , Christophe Ybert , Cecile Cottin-Bizonne

A dilute suspension of active Brownian particles in a dense compressible viscoelastic fluid, forms a natural setting to study the emergence of nonreciprocity during a dynamical phase transition. At these densities, the transport of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-14 Jyoti Prasad Banerjee , Rituparno Mandal , Deb Sankar Banerjee , Shashi Thutupalli , Madan Rao

Quantitatively understanding of the dynamics of an active Brownian particle (ABP) interacting with a viscoelastic polymer environment is a scientific challenge. It is intimately related to several interdisciplinary topics such as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-17 Sungmin Joo , Xavier Durang , O-chul Lee , Jae-Hyung Jeon