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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

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

We investigate the behavior of active Brownian particles (ABP) within a temporal complex network framework approach. We focused on the node degree distribution, average path length, and average clustering coefficient across the P\'eclet…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Italo Salas , Francisca Guzmán-Lastra , Denisse Pastén , Ariel Norambuena

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

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 investigate the collective dynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) subjected to a steady two-dimensional four-roll-mill flow using numerical simulations. By varying the packing fraction ($\phi$), we uncover a novel flow-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Soni D. Prajapati , Kusum Seervi , Akshay Bhatnagar , Anupam Gupta

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) are termed out to be a successful way of modeling the moving microorganism on the substrate. In recent studies, it is shown that such organisms can sense the characteristics of the substrate. Motivated by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-31 Pawan Kumar Mishra , Ajeya Krishna , Shradha Mishra

In this paper we provide high precision estimates of the phase diagram of active Brownian particles. We extract coexisting densities from simulations of phase separated states in an elongated box (slab geometry) which minimizes finite-size…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-16 Jonathan Tammo Siebert , Janina Letz , Thomas Speck , Peter Virnau

Active colloids exhibit persistent motion, which can lead to motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). However, there currently exists no microscopic theory to account for this phenomenon. We report a first-principles theory, free of fit…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 T. F. F. Farage , P. Krinninger , J. M. Brader

Suspensions of Active Brownian Particles (ABP) undergo motility induced phase separation (MIPS) over a wide range of mean density and activity strength [1], even in the absence of an explicit attraction. Negative values of the mechanical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-07 Enrique Chacon , Francisco Alarcon , Jorge Ramirez , Pedro Tarazona , Chantal Valeriani

Motility-induced phase separation, MIPS, is arguably the most well-studied collective phenomenon occurring in active matter without alignment interactions (scalar active matter). Its basic origin is simple: since self-propelled particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-10 Joakim Stenhammar

Recently, there has been much interest in activity-induced phase separations in concentrated suspensions of "active Brownian particles" (ABPs), self-propelled spherical particles whose direction of motion relaxes through thermal rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-13 Joakim Stenhammar , Davide Marenduzzo , Rosalind J. Allen , Michael E. Cates

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 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

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), the phenomenon in which purely repulsive active particles undergo a liquid-gas phase separation, is among the simplest and most widely studied examples of a nonequilibrium phase transition. Here, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-11 Ahmad K. Omar , Katherine Klymko , Trevor GrandPre , Phillip L. Geissler

The effect of curvature on an ensemble of repulsive active Brownian particles (ABPs) moving on a spherical surface is studied. Surface curvature strongly affects the dynamics of ABPs, as it introduces a new time scale $\tau=R/v_0$, with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Priyanka Iyer , Roland G. Winkler , Dmitry A. Fedosov , Gerhard Gompper

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) serve as a minimal model of active matter systems. When ABPs are sufficiently persistent, they undergo a liquid-gas phase separation and, in the presence of obstacles, accumulate around them, forming a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-16 Pablo Perez-Bastías , Rodrigo Soto

The transport of active particles may occur in complex environments, in which it emerges from the interplay between the mobility of the active components and the quenched disorder of the environment. Here we explore structural and dynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-31 Fergus J. Moore , John Russo Tanniemola B. Liverpool , C. Patrick Royall

In a system of Self-Propelled Particles (SPPs), the combination of self-propulsion and excluded volume effects can result in a phase separation called Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). Previous studies reported that MIPS is one of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-03 Hiroya Yamamoto

We consider a continuum model for motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) of active Brownian particles [J. Chem. Phys. 142, 224149 (2015)]. Using a recently introduced perturbative analysis [Phys. Rev. E 98, 020604(R) (2018)], we show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-02 Lisa Rapp , Fabian Bergmann , Walter Zimmermann