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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

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

Minimal models of self-propelled particles with short-range volume exclusion interactions have been shown to exhibit signatures of phase separation. Here I show that the observed interfacial stability and fluctuations in motility-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-11 Chiu Fan Lee

One of the most intriguing phenomena in active matter has been the gas-liquid like motility induced phase separation (MIPS) observed in repulsive active particles. However, experimentally no particle can be a perfect sphere, and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-20 Zhan Ma , Ran Ni

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) with pure repulsion is an ideal model to understand the effect of nonequilibrium on collective behaviors. It has long been established that activity can create effective attractions leading to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-01 Jie Su , Mengkai Feng , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

Observing spontaneous velocity ordering or flocking during motility induced phase separation (MIPS) in a system of spherical active Brownian particles without alignment interaction is challenging. We take up this problem by performing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-08 Subhajit Paul , Suman Majumder , Wolfhard Janke

Active matter systems are inherently out of equilibrium and break the detailed balance (DB) at the microscopic scale, exhibiting vital collective phenomena such as motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). Here, we introduce a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-30 Jie Su , Zhiyu Cao , Jin Wang , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

We simulate active Brownian particles (ABPs) with soft-repulsive interactions subjected to a four-roll-mill flow. In the absence of flow, this system exhibits motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). To investigate the interplay between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-28 Soni D. Prajapati , Akshay Bhatnagar , Anupam Gupta

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 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

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

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

Motility and nonreciprocity are two primary mechanisms for self-organization in active matter. In a recent study [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148301 (2023)], we explored their joint influence in a minimal model of two-species quorum-sensing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-15 Yu Duan , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian , Benoît Mahault

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

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

We present a thermodynamically consistent model describing the dynamics of a multi-component mixture where one enzyme component catalyzes a reaction between other components. We find that the catalytic activity alone can induce phase…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Matthew W. Cotton , Ramin Golestanian , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

We study binary mixtures of small active and big passive athermal particles interacting via soft repulsive forces on a frictional substrate. Athermal self propelled particles are known to phase separate into a dense aggregate and a dilute…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-05 Pritha Dolai , Aditi Simha , Shradha Mishra

Systems containing active components are intrinsically out of equilibrium, while binary mixtures reach their equilibrium configuration when complete phase separation is achieved. Active particles are found to stabilise non-equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-11 Javier Diaz , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We show that systematic particle rotations in a fluid composed of disk-shaped spinners can spontaneously lead to phase separation. The phenomenon arises out of a homogeneous and hydrostatic stationary state, due to a pressure feedback…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-28 Pasquale Digregorio , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Francisco Vega Reyes

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