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Purely repulsive active particles spontaneously undergo motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) into condensed and dilute phases. Remarkably, the mechanical tension measured along the interface between these phases is negative. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-31 Adam Patch , Daniel Sussman , David Yllanes , M. Cristina Marchetti

Non-equilibrium clustering and percolation are investigated in an archetypal model of two-dimensional active matter using dynamic simulations of self-propelled Brownian repulsive particles. We concentrate on the single-phase region up to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-09 David Evans , José Martín-Roca , Nathan J. Harmer , Chantal Valeriani , Mark A. Miller

We study motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) in symmetric and asymmetric active binary mixtures. We start with the coarse-grained run-and-tumble bacterial model that provides evolution equations for the density fields $\rho_i(\vec r,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-02 Sayantan Mondal , Prasenjit Das

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 computationally study suspensions of slow and fast active Brownian particles that have undergone motility induced phase separation and are at steady state. Such mixtures, of varying non-zero activity, remain largely unexplored even…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-11 Nicholas J Lauersdorf , Ehssan Nazockdast , Daphne Klotsa

Molecular dynamics simulations were employed to investigate the phase separation process of a two-dimensional active Brownian dumbbell model. We evaluated the time dependence of the typical size of the dense component using the scaling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-13 C. B. Caporusso , L. F. Cugliandolo , P. Digregorio , G. Gonnella , A. Suma

Self-propelled particles, like motile cells and artificial colloids, can spontaneously form macroscopic clusters. This phenomenon is called motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) and occurs even without attractive forces, provided that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-26 Felipe Hawthorne , Pablo de Castro , José A. Freire

Active soft matter frequently shows motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), where self-propelled particles condensate into clusters with an inner liquid-like structure. Such activity may also result in motility-induced crystallization…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-24 Max Philipp Holl , Alina Barbar Steinberg , Uwe Thiele

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) is of great importance and has been extensively researched in overdamped systems, nevertheless, what impacts inertia will bring on kinetics of MIPS is lack of investigation. Here, we find that, not…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-09 Jie Su , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

We study a system of purely repulsive spherical self-propelled particles in the minimal set-up inducing Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). We show that, even if explicit alignment interactions are absent, a growing order in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-26 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi

We consider an active Brownian particle moving in a disordered two-dimensional energy or motility landscape. The averaged mean-square-displacement (MSD) of the particle is calculated analytically within a systematic short-time expansion. As…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-03 Davide Breoni , Michael Schmiedeberg , Hartmut Löwen

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

Dry active matter systems are well-known to exhibit Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). However, in wet active systems, attractive hydrodynamic interactions mediated by active particles stalled at a boundary can introduce…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-01 Kingshuk Panja , Rajesh Singh

Phase diagram of the phenomenon of motility induced phase separation (MIPS) for a collection of self-propelled interacting disks is explored using Langevin dynamics simulation with particular emphasis on disk wall softness and the range of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-20 Soumen De Karmakar , Rajaraman Ganesh

We derive from first principles the mechanical pressure $P$, defined as the force per unit area on a bounding wall, in a system of spherical, overdamped, active Brownian particles at density $\rho$. Our exact result relates $P$, in closed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-10 A. P. Solon , J. Stenhammar , R. Wittkowski , M. Kardar , Y. Kafri , M. E. Cates , J. Tailleur

We simulate with hydrodynamics a suspension of active disks squirming through a Newtonian fluid. We explore numerically the full range of squirmer area fractions from dilute to close packed and show that "motility induced phase separation"…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Ricard Matas-Navarro , Ramin Golestanian , Tanniemola B. Liverpool , Suzanne M. Fielding

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

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

Understanding how microscopic motility shapes emergent collective behaviors is a challenging task in active matter, especially when self-propulsion is regulated by external cues or via quorum-sensing interactions. To address this problem,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Alberto Dinelli , Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu

Active transport of biomolecular condensates and cell migration in collectives are fundamental to development, homeostasis, and processes such as cancer progression, wound healing, and infection response. Yet how these assemblies are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-24 Hossein Vahid , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Abhinav Sharma