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Dense active systems are widespread in nature, examples range from bacterial colonies to biological tissues. Dense clusters of active particles can be obtained by increasing the packing fraction of the system or taking advantage of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-13 Matteo Paoluzzi , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We study the kinetics of two-temperature induced phase separation (2-TIPS) in dilute binary mixtures of active ("hot") and passive ("cold") particles using molecular dynamics simulations and a coarse-grained hydrodynamic model. Following a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-23 Nayana Venkatareddy , Partha Sarathi Mondal , Shradha Mishra , Prabal K. Maiti

We consider single-file diffusion in an open system with two species $A,B$ of particles. At the boundaries we assume different reservoir densities which drive the system into a non-equilibrium steady state. As a model we use an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brzank , G. M. Schütz

Recent studies of the phase diagram for spherical, purely repulsive, active particles established the existence of a transition from a liquid-like to a solid-like phase analogous to the one observed in colloidal systems at thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-30 Lorenzo Caprini , Claudio Maggi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Matteo Paoluzzi , Andrea Puglisi

Nonequilibrium phase transitions are notably difficult to analyze because their mechanisms depend on the system's dynamics in a complex way due to the lack of time-reversal symmetry. To complicate matters, the system's steady-state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-01 Ruben Zakine , Eric Simonnet , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Controlled activity of active entities interacting with a passive environment can generate emergent system-level phenomena, positioning such systems as promising platforms for potential downstream applications in targeted drug delivery,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-07 Thomas Jacob , Siddhant Mohapatra , Rajalingam A , Sam Mathew , Pallab Sinha Mahapatra

Using numerical simulations, we examine the dynamics of active matter run-and-tumble disks moving in a disordered array of obstacles. As a function of increasing active disk density and activity, we find a transition from a completely…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-13 C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

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

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

Spontaneous phase separation, or demixing, is important in biological phenomena such as cell sorting. In particle-based models, an open question is whether differences in diffusivity can drive such demixing. While…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-10 Erin McCarthy , Ojan Damavandi , Raj Kumar Manna , M. Lisa Manning

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 investigate the phase behavior and kinetics of a monodisperse mixture of active (\textit{i.e.}, self-propelled) and passive isometric Brownian particles through Brownian dynamics simulations and theory. As in a purely active system,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-08 Joakim Stenhammar , Raphael Wittkowski , Davide Marenduzzo , Michael E. Cates

We use a continuum model to examine the effect of activity on a phase separating mixture of an extensile active nematic and a passive fluid. We highlight the distinct role of previously considered interfacial active stresses and bulk active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-26 Fernando Caballero , M. Cristina Marchetti

We numerically examine a bidisperse system of active and passive particles coupled to a resource substrate. The active particles deplete the resource at a fixed rate and move toward regions with higher resources, while all of the particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 L. Varga , A. Libal , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We study a two-lane two-species exclusion process inspired by Lin et al. (C. Lin et al. J. Stat. Mech., 2011), that exhibits a non-equilibrium pulsing phase. Particles move on two parallel one-dimensional tracks, with one open and one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-31 Sarah Klein , Cécile Appert-Rolland , Martin R. Evans

We revisit motility-induced phase separation in two models of active particles interacting by pairwise repulsion. We show that the resulting dense phase contains gas bubbles distributed algebraically up to a typically large cutoff scale. At…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-27 Xia-qing Shi , Giordano Fausti , Hugues Chaté , Cesare Nardini , Alexandre Solon

We review recent experimental, numerical, and analytical results on active suspensions of self-propelled colloidal beads moving in (quasi) two dimensions. Active colloids form part of the larger theme of active matter, which is noted for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-03 Julian Bialké , Thomas Speck , Hartmut Löwen

We consider a mixture of passive (i.e., Brownian) and active (e.g., bacterial or colloidal swimmers) particles, and analyze the stability conditions of either uniformly mixed or phase segregated steady states consisting of phases enriched…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-21 Alexander Y. Grosberg , Jean-François Joanny

As a result of nonequilibrium forces, purely repulsive self-propelled particles undergo macrophase separation between a dense and a dilute phase. We present a thorough study of the ordering kinetics of such motility-induced phase separation…

A one dimensional stochastic exclusion process with two species of particles, $+$ and $-$, is studied where density of each species can fluctuate but the total particle density is conserved. From the exact stationary state weights we show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-10 Urna Basu