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This article is the exploration of the viewpoint within which propelled particles in a steady-state are regarded as a system with quenched disorder. The analogy is exact when the rate of the drift orientation vanishes and the linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-10 Derek Frydel

We present a detailed study of the large-scale collective properties of self-propelled particles (SPPs) moving in two-dimensional heterogeneous space. The impact of spatial heterogeneities on the ordered, collectively moving phase is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Oleksandr Chepizhko , Fernando Peruani

Phase separation driven by nonequilibrium fluctuations is a hallmark of both living and synthetic active matter. Unlike equilibrium systems, where ordered states arise from the minimization of free energy, active systems are fueled by a…

Motivated by various recent experimental findings, we propose a dynamical model of intermittently self-propelled particles: active particles that recurrently switch between two modes of motion, namely an active run-state and a turn state,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-30 Agniva Datta , Carsten Beta , Robert Großmann

We propose a comprehensive dynamical model for cooperative motion of self-propelled particles, e.g., flocking, by combining well-known elements such as velocity-alignment interactions, spatial interactions, and angular noise into a unified…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-20 V. Dossetti , F. J. Sevilla , V. M. Kenkre

We consider a two-dimensional athermal binary mixture of Lennard-Jones particles with persistent random active forces. The liquid phase of this system for active forces exceeding a threshold value exhibits self-organization with long-range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 Atharva Shukla , Chandan Dasgupta

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

Nanosized particles of $\omega$ phase in a $\beta$-Ti alloy were investigated by small-angle X-ray scattering using synchrotron radiation. We demonstrated that the particles are spontaneously weakly ordered in a three-dimensional cubic…

Self-propelled particles in anisotropic environments can exhibit a motility that depends on their orientation. This dependence is relevant for a plethora of living organisms but difficult to study in controlled environments. Here, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-27 Alexander R. Sprenger , Christian Scholz , Anton Ldov , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

We study a set of models of self-propelled particles that achieve collective motion through similar alignment-based dynamics, considering versions with and without repulsive interactions that do not affect the heading directions. We explore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-27 Yinong Zhao , Thomas Ihle , Zhangang Han , Cristián Huepe , Pawel Romanczuk

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 explore the generic long wavelength properties of an active XY model on a substrate, consisting of collection of nearly phase-ordered active XY spins in contact with a diffusing, conserved species, as a representative system of active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-27 Astik Haldar , Apurba Sarkar , Swarnajit Chatterjee , Abhik Basu

Synchronization is one of the emerging collective phenomena in interacting particle systems. Its ubiquitous presence in nature, science, and technology has fascinated the scientific community over the decades. Moreover, a great deal of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-12-18 Suvam Pal , Gourab Kumar Sar , Dibakar Ghosh , Arnab Pal

In a system of noisy self-propelled particles with interactions that favor directional alignment, collective motion will appear if the density of particles increases beyond a certain threshold. In this paper, we argue that such a threshold…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-03-29 Chiu Fan Lee

We study the order-disorder transition in a collection of polar self-propelled particles, interacting through a distance dependent short range alignment interaction. A distance dependent interaction parameter $a_0$ is introduced such that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-13 Sudipta Pattanayak , Shradha Mishra

In active systems, whose constituents have non-equilibrium dynamics at local level, fluid-fluid phase separation is widely observed. Examples include the formation of membraneless organelles within cells; the clustering of self-propelled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-11 M. E. Cates , C. Nardini

A mean-field approach (MFA) is proposed for the analysis of orientational order in a two-dimensional system of stochastic self-propelled particles interacting by local velocity alignment mechanism. The treatment is applied to the cases of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando Peruani , Andreas Deutsch , Markus Baer

Systems composed of strongly interacting self-propelled particles can form a spontaneously flowing polar active fluid. The study of the connection between the microscopic dynamics of a single such particle and the macroscopic dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Benjamin Loewe , Anton Souslov , Paul M. Goldbart

The self-organised motion of vast numbers of creatures in a single direction is a spectacular example of emergent order. We recreate this phenomenon using actuated non-living components. We report here that millimetre-sized tapered rods,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-23 Nitin Kumar , Harsh Soni , Sriram Ramaswamy , A. K. Sood

Self-propelled particles, which convert energy into mechanical motion, exhibit inertia if they have a macroscopic size or move inside a gaseous medium, in contrast to micron-sized overdamped particles immersed in a viscous fluid. Here we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-08 G. H. Philipp Nguyen , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen