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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

By systematically varying the mobility of self-propelled particles in a two-dimensional (2D) lattice, we experimentally study the influence of particle mobility on system's collective motion. Our system is intrinsically non-equilibrium due…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-19 Hongchuan Shen , Peng Tan , Lei Xu

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

We consider the collective behaviour of active particles that locally align with their neighbours. Agent-based simulation models have previously shown that in one dimension, these particles can form into a flock that maintains its stability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Eoin Ó Laighléis , Martin R. Evans , Richard A. Blythe

By studying a system of Brownian particles, interacting only through a local social-like force (velocity alignment), we show that self-propulsion is not a necessary feature for the flocking transition to take place as long as underdamped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-31 Victor Dossetti , Francisco J. Sevilla

We study dynamics of clustering in systems containing active particles that are immersed in an explicit solvent. For this purpose we have adopted a hybrid simulation method, consisting of molecular dynamics and multi-particle collision…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-01 Arabinda Bera , Soudamini Sahoo , Snigdha Thakur , Subir K. Das

We study the collective motion of self-propelled particles affected by the spatial-dependent noise based on the Vicsek rules. Only the particles inside the special region will affected by noise. The consideration of the spatial-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-16 Jia-xin Qian , Yan-qing Lu

We study the emerging collective states in a simple mechanical model of a dense group of self-propelled polar disks with off-centered rotation, confined within a circular arena. Each disk presents self-alignment towards the sum of contact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-15 Weizhen Tang , Yating Zheng , Amir Shee , Guozheng Lin , Zhangang Han , Pawel Romanczuk , Cristián Huepe

We combine computer simulations and analytical theory to investigate the glassy dynamics in dense assemblies of athermal particles evolving under the sole influence of self-propulsion. The simulations reveal that when the persistence time…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-30 Grzegorz Szamel , Elijah Flenner , Ludovic Berthier

We study the collective behaviour of an ensemble of coupled motile elements whose interactions depend on time and are alternatively attractive or repulsive. The evolution of interactions is driven by individual internal variables with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Damian H. Zanette , Alexander S. Mikhailov

We study an interacting high-density one-dimensional system of self-propelled particles described by the Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP) model where, even in the absence of alignment interactions, velocity and energy domains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We review a general class of models for self-organized dynamics based on alignment. The dynamics of such systems is governed solely by interactions among individuals or "agents," with the tendency to adjust to their `environmental…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-05-09 Sebastien Motsch , Eitan Tadmor

We study the long-time hydrodynamic behavior of systems of multi-species which arise from agent-based description of alignment dynamics. The interaction between species is governed by an array of symmetric communication kernels. We prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Jingcheng Lu , Eitan Tadmor

We study, numerically, the collective dynamics of self-rotating nonaligning particles by considering a monolayer of spheres driven by constant clockwise or counterclockwise torques. We show that hydrodynamic interactions alter the emergence…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-24 Kyongmin Yeo , Enkeleida Lushi , Petia M. Vlahovska

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

We investigate systems of self-propelled particles with alignment interaction. Compared to previous work, the force acting on the particles is not normalized and this modification gives rise to phase transitions from disordered states at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle , Jian-Guo Liu

We consider the dynamics of systems of self propelling particles with nonholonomic constraints. A continuum model for a discrete algorithm used in works by T. Vicsek et al. is proposed. For a case of planar geometry the finite flocking…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Kulinskii , V. I. Ratushnaya , A. V. Zvelindovsky , D. Bedeaux

We present experiments on the collective dynamics of macroscopic photoactive self-propelled particles subjected to spatiotemporally varying excitation. The particles move within an arena divided into two regions with different illumination…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Sára Lévay , Axel Katona , Raúl Cruz Hidalgo , Iker Zuriguel

Curvature plays a central role in the proper function of many biological processes. With active matter being a standard framework for understanding many aspects of the physics of life, it is natural to ask what effect curvature has on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-27 Euan D. Mackay , Giulia Janzen , D. A. Matoz Fernandez , Rastko Sknepnek

We present a new model for multi-agent dynamics where each agent is described by its position and body attitude: agents travel at a constant speed in a given direction and their body can rotate around it adopting different configurations.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle , Sara Merino-Aceituno