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Suspensions of purely repulsive but self-propelled Brownian particles might undergo phase separation, a phenomenon that strongly resembles the phase separation of passive particles with attractions. Here we employ computer simulations to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-05 David Richard , Hartmut Löwen , Thomas Speck

We derive a microscopic expression for a quantity $\mu$ that plays the role of chemical potential of Active Brownian Particles (ABPs) in a steady state in the absence of vortices. We show that $\mu$ consists of (i) an intrinsic chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-17 Siddharth Paliwal , Jeroen Rodenburg , René van Roij , Marjolein Dijkstra

We use a continuum, two-fluid approach to study a mixture of two active nematic fluids. Even in the absence of thermodynamically-driven ordering, for mixtures of different activities we observe turbulent microphase separation, where domains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-03 Saraswat Bhattacharyya , Julia M. Yeomans

The steady state and phase ordering kinetics in a pure active Borwnian particle system are studied in recent years. In binary mixture of active and passive Brownian particles passive particles are used as probe to understand the properties…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-23 Shambhavi Dikshit , Shradha Mishra

We simulate clustering, phase separation and hexatic ordering in a monolayered suspension of active squirming disks subject to an attractive Lennard-Jones-like pairwise interaction potential, taking hydrodynamic interactions between the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-31 Ricard Matas Navarro , Suzanne Fielding

Phase separation in a low-density gas-like phase and a high-density liquid-like one is a common trait of biological and synthetic self-propelling particles' systems. The competition between motility and stochastic forces is assumed to fix…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-15 Pin Nie , Joyjit Chattoraj , Antonio Piscitelli , Patrick Doyle , Ran Ni , Massimo Pica Ciamarra

The aim of this paper is to discuss the mathematical modeling of Brownian active particle systems, a recently popular paradigmatic system for self-propelled particles. We present four microscopic models with different types of repulsive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-31 M. Bruna , M. Burger , A. Esposito , S. M. Schulz

We study interacting active Brownian particles (ABPs) with a space-dependent swim velocity via simulation and theory. We find that, although an equation of state exists, a mechanical equilibrium does not apply to ABPs in activity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-13 Adam Wysocki , Anil K. Dasanna , Heiko Rieger

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) with pure repulsion is an ideal model to understand the effect of nonequilibrium on collective behaviors. It has long been established that activity can create effective attractions leading to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-01 Jie Su , Mengkai Feng , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

In contrast to equilibrium systems, inertia can profoundly impact the phase behavior of active systems. This has been made particularly evident in recent years, with motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) exhibiting several intriguing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-21 Jiechao Feng , Ahmad K. Omar

We model a binary mixture of passive and active Brownian particles in two dimensions using the effective interaction between passive particles in the active bath. The activity of active particles and the size ratio of two types of particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-15 Jay Prakash Singh , Sudipta Pattanayak , Shradha Mishra , Jaydeb Chakrabarti

The transport properties of colloidal particles in active liquids have been studied extensively. It has led to a deeper understanding of the interactions between passive and active particles. However, the phase behavior of colloidal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-30 Pragya Kushwaha , Vivek Semwal , Sayan Maity , Shraddha Mishra , Vijayakumar Chikkadi

We demonstrate that the mechanically-defined "isothermal" compressibility behaves as a thermodynamic-like response function for suspensions of active Brownian particles. The compressibility computed from the active pressure - a combination…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-03 Austin R. Dulaney , Stewart A. Mallory , John F. Brady

Active matter, encompassing natural systems, converts surrounding energy to sustain autonomous motion, exhibiting unique non-equilibrium behaviors such as active turbulence and phase separation. In this study, we develop a continuum…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-06 Sohail Ahmed , Zixiang Lin , Zijie Qu

In striking contrast to equilibrium systems, inertia can profoundly alter the structure of active systems. Here, we demonstrate that driven systems can exhibit effective equilibrium-like states with increasing particle inertia, despite…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-23 Ahmad K. Omar , Katherine Klymko , Trevor GrandPre , Phillip L. Geissler , John F. Brady

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) represent a minimal model of active matter consisting of self-propelled spheres with purely repulsive interactions and rotational noise. Here, we examine the pressure of ABPs in two dimensions in both closed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-11 Adam Patch , David Yllanes , M. Cristina Marchetti

In this work, we study the dynamics of a single active Brownian particle, as well as the collective behavior of interacting active Brownian particles, in a fluctuating heterogeneous environment. We employ a variant of the diffusing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 S. M. J. Khadem , N. H. Siboni , S. H. L. Klapp

Active Brownian particles (ABPs), when subject to purely repulsive interactions, are known to undergo activity-induced phase separation broadly resembling an equilibrium (attraction-induced) gas-liquid coexistence. Here we present an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-04 Joakim Stenhammar , Adriano Tiribocchi , Rosalind J. Allen , Davide Marenduzzo , Michael E. Cates

Pair potentials that are bounded at the origin provide an accurate description of the effective interaction for many systems of dissolved soft macromolecules (e.g., flexible dendrimers). Using numerical free-energy calculations, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-29 C. Speranza , S. Prestipino , G. Malescio , P. V. Giaquinta

Adding a small amount of passive (Brownian) particles to a two-dimensional dense suspension of repulsive active Brownian particles does not affect the appearance of a motility-induced phase separation into a dense and a dilute phase, caused…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-11 Rodrigo Fernández-Quevedo García , Enrique Chacón , Pedro Tarazona , Chantal Valeriani