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Ordering Kinetics in the Active Model B

Soft Condensed Matter 2021-07-28 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We undertake a detailed numerical study of the {\it Active Model B} proposed by Wittkowski et al. [Nature Comm. {\bf 5}, 4351 (2014)]. We find that the introduction of activity has a drastic effect on the ordering kinetics. First, the domain growth law shows a crossover from the usual Lifshitz-Slyozov growth law for phase separation (Lt1/3L \sim t^{1/3}, where tt is the time) to a novel growth law (Lt1/4L \sim t^{1/4}) at late times. Second, the correlation function exhibits dynamical scaling for a given activity strength λ\lambda, but the scaling function depends on λ\lambda.

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@article{arxiv.2101.10626,
  title  = {Ordering Kinetics in the Active Model B},
  author = {Sudipta Pattanayak and Shradha Mishra and Sanjay Puri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.10626},
  year   = {2021}
}
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