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We study numerically the role of hydrodynamics in the liquid-hexatic transition of active colloids at intermediate activity, where motility induced phase separation (MIPS) does not occur. We show that in the case of active Brownian…

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

One of the most notable features in repulsive particle based active matter systems is motility-induced-phase separation (MIPS) where a dense, often crystalline phase coexists with a low density fluid. In most active matter studies, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 P. Forgacs , A. Libal , C. Reichhardt , N. Hengartner , C. J. O. Reichhardt

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

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) arises generically in fluids of self-propelled particles when interactions lead to a kinetic slowdown at high densities. Starting from a continuum description of scalar active matter, akin to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-28 Alexandre P. Solon , Joakim Stenhammar , Michael E. Cates , Yariv Kafri , Julien Tailleur

In striking contrast to equilibrium systems, inertia can profoundly alter the structure of active systems. Here, we demonstrate that driven systems can exhibit effective equilibrium-like states with increasing particle inertia, despite…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-23 Ahmad K. Omar , Katherine Klymko , Trevor GrandPre , Phillip L. Geissler , John F. Brady

The clustering of self-motile and repulsive particles, so-called motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), is one of the clearest signatures of active physics. Typically, increasing the amplitude of self-motility increases the degree of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-12 Letian Chen , Luke K. Davis

Understanding stochastic thermodynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) system has been an important topic in very recent years. In this article we study a general model of active Brownian particle systems by introducing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-11 Zhiyu Cao , Jie Su , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) leads to cohesive active matter in the absence of cohesive forces. We present, extend and illustrate a recent generalized thermodynamic formalism which accounts for its binodal curve. Using this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-11 Alexandre P. Solon , Joakim Stenhammar , Michael E. Cates , Yariv Kafri , Julien Tailleur

Active matter exhibits many intriguing non-equilibrium character, \emph{e.g.}, the active Brownian particles (ABP) without any attractive and aligned interactions can occur the mobility-induced phase transition to form some dense domains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-24 Cheng Yang , Ying Zeng , Shun Xu , Xin Zhou

Liquid-liquid phase separation of aqueous two-phase system (ATPS) is fundamental across physical and biological sciences. While well understood for passive systems, how this process is regulated by active agents such as motile bacteria…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-25 Dixi Yang , Anheng Wang , Chunming Wang , Hajime Tanaka , Jiaxing Yuan

Collectives of actively-moving particles can spontaneously segregate into dilute and dense phases through a process known as motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). This captivating phenomenon is well-studied for randomly-moving particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-04 Hongbo Zhao , Qiwei Yu , Andrej Košmrlj , Sujit S. Datta

We study steady-state properties of a bath of active Brownian particles (ABPs) in two dimensions in the presence of two fixed, permeable (hollow) disklike inclusions, whose interior and exterior regions can exhibit mismatching motility…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-20 Mahmoud Sebtosheikh , Ali Naji

A simple theoretical approach is used to investigate active colloids at the free interface and near repulsive substrates. We employ dynamical density functional theory to determine the steady-state density profiles in an effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-03 René Wittmann , Joseph M. Brader

Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS) is a distinctive phenomenon in active matter that arises from its inherent non-equilibrium nature. Despite recent progress in understanding MIPS in dry active systems, it has been debated whether…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Tingtao Zhou , John F. Brady

In this paper, we report a Brownian dynamics simulation of the mobility-induced phase separation which occurs in a two-dimensional binary mixture of active soft Brownian particles, whose interactions are modeled by non-additive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-23 D. Jiménez-Flores , A. Rodríguez-Rivas , J. M. Romero-Enrique

Motility-induced wall aggregation of active Brownian particles (ABPs) is a well-studied phenomenon. Here, we study the aggregation of ABPs on porous walls, which allows the particles to penetrate through at large motility. We show that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-13 Suchismita Das , Raghunath Chelakkot

The diffusive behavior of small entities is strongly influenced by the flow of the surrounding medium, which is ubiquitous in natural and artificial environments. In this study, we investigate the transport characteristics of the inertial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-19 Ankit Gupta , P. S. Burada

We study capillary condensation in a bath consisting of active Brownian particles (ABPs) and the forces acting on the capillary close to the motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). The capillary is modelled as two parallel rods of high…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-29 Milos Knezevic , Holger Stark

Simulation studies of the phase diagram of repulsive active Brownian particles in three dimensions reveal that the region of motility-induced phase separation between a high and low density phase is enclosed by a region of gas-crystal phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-27 Francesco Turci , Nigel B. Wilding