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The statistical mechanics of equilibrium interfaces has been well-established for over a half century. In the last decade, a wealth of observations have made increasingly clear that a new perspective is required to describe interfaces…

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Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS) is a distinctive phenomenon in active matter that arises from its inherent non-equilibrium nature. Despite recent progress in understanding MIPS in dry active systems, it has been debated whether…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Tingtao Zhou , John F. Brady

Self-propulsion in run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) generates effective attractive interactions that can drive motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), a phenomenon absent in passive systems. Here, we investigate RTPs in the presence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Abir Bhowmick , Sayantan Mitra , P. K. Mohanty

To study the role of torque in motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), we simulate a system of self-propelled particles whose shape varies smoothly from isotropic (disks/spheres) to weakly elongated (rods). We construct the phase diagrams…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-10 Robin van Damme , Jeroen Rodenburg , René van Roij , Marjolein Dijkstra

Understanding the mechanical properties of active suspensions is crucial for their potential applications in materials engineering. Among the various phenomena in active matter that have no analogue in equilibrium systems, motility-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-10 José Martín-Roca , Chantal Valeriani , Kristian Thijssen , Tyler Shendruk , Angelo Cacciuto

Collectives of actively-moving particles can spontaneously segregate into dilute and dense phases through a process known as motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). This captivating phenomenon is well-studied for randomly-moving particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-04 Hongbo Zhao , Qiwei Yu , Andrej Košmrlj , Sujit S. Datta

Collectives of actively-moving particles can spontaneously separate into dilute and dense phases -- a fascinating phenomenon known as motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). MIPS is well-studied for randomly-moving particles with no…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Hongbo Zhao , Andrej Košmrlj , Sujit S. Datta

Interfacial phenomena of motility-induced phase separation of active particles challenge our conventional understanding of phase coexistence. Despite the ubiquity of nonmechanical communication couplings among real active particles, most…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-22 Zihao Sun , Longfei Li , Fangfu Ye , Mingcheng Yang

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) is a well-studied nonequilibrium collective phenomenon observed in active particles. Recently, there has been growing interest in how coupling the self-propulsion of active particles to chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-14 Euijoon Kwon , Yongjae Oh , Yongjoo Baek

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

Using a multi-phase field model, we examine how particle deformability, which is a proxy for cell stiffness, affects motility induced phase separation (MIPS). We show that purely repulsive deformable, i.e., squishy, cells phase separate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-12 Austin Hopkins , Benjamin Loewe , Michael Chiang , Davide Marenduzzo , M. Cristina Marchetti

We study motility-induced phase separation~(MIPS) in active AB binary mixtures undergoing the chemical reaction $A \rightleftharpoons B$. Starting from the evolution equations for the density fields $\rho_i(\vec r, t)$ describing MIPS, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-05 Sayantan Mondal , Prasenjit Das

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of active matter using a two-dimensional active Brownian particles model. In these systems, self-propelled particles undergo motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), spontaneously segregating into…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-26 Toranosuke Umemura , Issei Sakai , Takuma Akimoto

Repulsive self-propelled particles tend to cluster, leading to Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). By analogy with equilibrium phase separation, the onset of MIPS has been associated with a transition to effective attraction between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Rosalba Garcia-Millan , Luca Cocconi , Ziluo Zhang , Marius Bothe , Letian Chen , Zigan Zhen , Gunnar Pruessner

A collection of self-propelled particles with volume exclusion interactions can exhibit the phenomenology of gas-liquid phase separation, known as motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). The non-equilibrium nature of the system is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-14 Benjamin Partridge , Chiu Fan Lee

We present a hydrodynamic theory for systems of dipolar active Brownian particles which, in the regime of weak dipolar coupling, predicts the onset of motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), consistent with Brownian dynamics (BD)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-29 Elena Sesé-Sansa , Guo-Jun Liao , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Sabine H. L. Klapp

We report a motility-induced pinning transition in the active Ising model for a self-propelled particle system with discrete symmetry. This model was known to exhibit a liquid-gas type flocking phase transition, but a recent study reveals…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-09 Chul-Ung Woo , Jae Dong Noh

We examine motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) in two-dimensional run and tumble disk systems using both machine learning and noise fluctuation analysis. Our measures suggest that within the MIPS state there are several distinct…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 D. McDermott , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We study phase separation in two dimensions in the scaling limit below criticality. The general form of the magnetization profile as the volume goes to infinity is determined exactly within the field theoretical framework which explicitly…

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