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We study the stationary dynamics of an active interacting Brownian particle system. We measure the violations of the fluctuation dissipation theorem, and the corresponding effective temperature, in a locally resolved way. Quite naturally,…

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Studies of active matter, from molecular assemblies to animal groups, have revealed two broad classes of behavior: a tendency to align yields orientational order and collective motion, whereas particle repulsion leads to self-trapping and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-23 Jie Zhang , Ricard Alert , Jing Yan , Ned S. Wingreen , Steve Granick

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

Phase separation plays an role in determining the self-assembly of biological and soft-matter systems. In biological systems, liquid-liquid phase separation inside a cell leads to the formation of various macromolecular aggregates. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-26 Tanmay Biswas , Gerhard Kahl , Gaurav P. Shrivastav

A self-consistent description for hot $\Lambda$ hypernuclei in hypothetical big boxes is developed within the relativistic Thomas-Fermi approximation in order to investigate directly the liquid-gas phase coexistence in strangeness finite…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-30 Jinniu Hu , Zhaowen Zhang , Shishao Bao , Hong Shen

Colloid-polymer mixtures may undergo either fluid-fluid phase separation or gelation. This depends on the depth of the quench (polymer concentration) and polymer-colloid size ratio. We present a real-space study of dynamics in phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-09-19 Isla Zhang , C. Patrick Royall , Paul Bartlett , Malcolm A. Faers

We perform large-scale computer simulations of an off-lattice two-dimensional model of active particles undergoing a motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) to investigate the systems critical behaviour close to the critical point of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-21 Claudio Maggi , Matteo Paoluzzi , Andrea Crisanti , Emanuela Zaccarelli , Nicoletta Gnan

We study the dynamical properties of a two-dimensional ensemble of self-propelled dumbbells with only repulsive interactions. After summarizing the behavior of the translational and rotational mean-square displacements in the homogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Giuseppe Gonnella , Antonio Suma

The pair cluster (dimer) is studied within the framework of the extended Hubbard model and the grand canonical ensemble. The elastic interatomic interactions and thermal vibrational energy of the atoms are taken into account. The total…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-21 T. Balcerzak , K. Szałowski

Active matter systems may be characterised by the conversion of energy into active motion, e.g. the self-propulsion of microorganisms. Artificial active colloids form models which exhibit essential properties of more complex biological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-19 Abraham Mauleon-Amieva , Michael P. Allen , C. Patrick Royall

The effective pair potentials between different kinds of dendrimers in solution can be well approximated by appropriate Gaussian functions. We find that in binary dendrimer mixtures the range and strength of the effective interactions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 I. O. Gotze , A. J. Archer , C. N. Likos

A Lennard--Jones model of a binary dense liquid (A,B) with a symmetrical miscibility gap is investigated by means of computer simulation methods. Semigrand--canonical Monte Carlo simulations yield the phase diagram in the $T$--$x$ plane…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Subir K. Das , Jürgen Horbach , Kurt Binder

Liquid-liquid phase separation is important across biology, physics, and materials science. Although usually studied at equilibrium, active components - such as motor proteins, enzymes, and synthetic microswimmers - are increasingly…

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Structure of hot dense matter at subnuclear densities is investigated by quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) simulations. We analyze nucleon distributions and nuclear shapes using two-point correlation functions and Minkowski functionals to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Gentaro Watanabe , Katsuhiko Sato , Kenji Yasuoka , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

Evaporation and condensation at a liquid/vapor interface are ubiquitous interphase mass and energy transfer phenomena that are still not well understood. We have carried out large scale molecular dynamics simulations of Lennard-Jones (LJ)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-12 Shengfeng Cheng , Jeremy B. Lechman , Steven J. Plimpton , Gary S. Grest

In a cluster crystal, each lattice site is occupied by multiple soft-core particles. As the number density is increased at zero temperature, a `cascade' of isostructural phase transitions can occur between states whose site occupancy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-22 Nigel B. Wilding , Peter Sollich

We consider a mixture of hard core bosonic polar molecules, interacting via repulsive dipole-dipole interaction, and one atomic bosonic species. The mixture is confined on a two-dimensional square lattice and, at low enough temperatures,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 B. Capogrosso-Sansone

We study the zero-temperature phase diagram of the half-filled one-dimensional ionic Hubbard model. This model is governed by the interplay of the on-site Coulomb repulsion and an alternating one-particle potential. Various many-body energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 S. R. Manmana , V. Meden , R. M. Noack , K. Schoenhammer

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

Non-equilibrium phase coexistence is commonly observed in both biological and artificial systems, yet understanding it remains a significant challenge. Unlike equilibrium systems, where free energy provides a unifying framework, the absence…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-09 R. Maire , A. Plati , F. Smallenburg , G. Foffi