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We present a rare example of a one-dimensional system with short-range range interactions for which a self-stabilizing long-range ordered phase persists to finite temperatures. Our model offers a new perspective on the origins of shape…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Damjan Dagbjartsson , Simon Banks , Björgvin Hjörvarsson

Model order reduction in high-dimensional, nonlinear dynamical systems if often enabled through fast-slow timescale separation. One such approach involves identifying a low-dimensional slow manifold to which the state rapidly converges and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Dan Wilson

In this work, the orientation adapter, a species of active particles that adapt their direction of motion from the other active particles, is introduced. The orientation adapters exist besides the usual Vicsek-like particles; both are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-28 Sagarika Adhikary , S. B. Santra

The phase diagram of self-propelled hard disk systems with Vicsek-type alignment interactions was investigated by event-driven molecular dynamics simulations. The model incorporates two competing order parameters: the polar order-disorder…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Nobuaki Murase , Masaharu Isobe

Recent studies of the phase diagram for spherical, purely repulsive, active particles established the existence of a transition from a liquid-like to a solid-like phase analogous to the one observed in colloidal systems at thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-30 Lorenzo Caprini , Claudio Maggi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Matteo Paoluzzi , Andrea Puglisi

We show that dense active fluids comprising interacting particles with persistent self-propulsion are driven to a non-equilibrium steady state consisting of co-moving particles with co-aligned active forces. This velocity and force sorting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Suman Dutta , Pinaki Chaudhuri , Madan Rao , Chandan Dasgupta

The phenomenon of group motion is common in nature, ranging from the schools of fish, birds and insects, to avalanches, landslides and sand drift. If we treat objects as collectively moving particles, such phenomena can be studied from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jian Sun , Jiasen Niu , Yifan Li , Yang Liu , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , Pengjie Wang , Xi Lin

Active matter research focuses on the emergent behavior among interacting self-propelled particles. Unification of seemingly disconnected paradigms -- active phase-separation of repulsive discs and collective motion of self-propelled rods…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-18 Robert Großmann , Igor S. Aranson , Fernando Peruani

We consider driven many-particle models which have a phase transition between an active and an absorbing phase. Like previously studied models, we have particle conservation, but here we introduce an additional symmetry - when two particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-18 Daniel Hexner , Dov Levine

We consider the rich variety of collective motion patterns emerging when aligning active particles move in the presence of randomly distributed obstacles - representing quenched noise in two dimensions. In order to get insight into the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-21 Danial Vahabli , Tamas Vicsek

Depinning and nonequilibrium transitions within sliding states in systems driven over quenched disorder arise across a wide spectrum of size scales ranging from atomic friction at the nanoscale, flux motion in type-II superconductors at the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-22 Cs. Sándor , A. Libál , C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

How do topological defects affect the degree of order in active matter? To answer this question we investigate an agent-based model of self-propelled particles, which accounts for polar alignment and short-ranged repulsive interactions. For…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-30 Christoph A. Weber , Christopher Bock , Erwin Frey

We investigate experimentally the dynamic phase transition of a two-dimensional active nematic layer interfaced with a passive liquid crystal. Under a temperature ramp that leads to the transition of the passive liquid into a highly…

Systems driven far from equilibrium may exhibit anomalous density fluctuations: active matter with orientational order display giant density fluctuations at large scale, while systems of interacting particles close to an absorbing phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-23 Sara Dal Cengio , Romain Mari , Eric Bertin

Chaos is an inherently dynamical phenomenon traditionally studied for trajectories that are either permanently erratic or transiently influenced by permanently erratic ones lying on a set of measure zero. The latter gives rise to the final…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-12 Adilson E. Motter , Marton Gruiz , Gyorgy Karolyi , Tamas Tel

We study the phase-space organization of the planar elastic pendulum as a function of its two dimensionless control parameters: the reduced energy $R$ and the squared frequency ratio $\mu$. By randomly sampling the isoenergetic volume to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-03 Juan P. Tarigo , Cecilia Stari , Edson D. Leonel , Arturo C. Marti

Active matter systems encompass both natural and artificially created systems consisting of numerous active particles. These particles actively consume energy to propel themselves or exert mechanical forces, leading to intricate behaviors…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mintu Karmakar

The orientational ordering transition is investigated in the quantum generalization of the anisotropic-planar-rotor model in the low temperature regime. The phase diagram of the model is first analyzed within the mean-field approximation.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Martonak , D. Marx , P. Nielaba

We present results on the low-frequency dynamical and transport properties of random quantum systems whose low temperature ($T$), low-energy behavior is controlled by strong disorder fixed points. We obtain the momentum and frequency…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Olexei Motrunich , Kedar Damle , David A. Huse

We study the dynamics of lattice models of quantum spins one-half, driven by a coherent drive and subject to dissipation. Generically the meanfield limit of these models manifests multistable parameter regions of coexisting steady states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-06 Haggai Landa , Marco Schiró , Grégoire Misguich