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We present a grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation study of the phase diagram of a Lennard-Jones fluid adsorbed in a fractal and highly porous aerogel. The gel environment is generated from an off-lattice diffusion limited cluster-cluster…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. De Grandis , P. Gallo , M. Rovere

Active fluids operate by constantly dissipating energy at the particle level to perform a directed motion, yielding dynamics and phases without any equilibrium equivalent. The emerging behaviors have been studied extensively, yet…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-03 Étienne Fodor , Takahiro Nemoto , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

Lattice models allow for a computationally efficient investigation of motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) compared to off-lattice systems. Simulations are less demanding and thus bigger systems can be accessed with higher accuracy and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-26 Florian Dittrich , Thomas Speck , Peter Virnau

A system of identical particles interacting through an isotropic potential that allows for two preferred interparticle distances is numerically studied. When the parameters of the interaction potential are adequately chosen, the system…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 E. A. Jagla

The aim of the paper is to establish a large deviation principle (LDP) for the empirical measure of mean-field interacting diffusions in a random environment. The point is to derive such a result once the environment has been frozen…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Eric Luçon

We present numerical simulations of active fluid droplets immersed in an external fluid in 2-dimensions { using} an Immersed Boundary method to simulate the fluid droplet interface as a Lagrangian mesh. We present results from two example…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-28 Carl A. Whitfield , Rhoda J. Hawkins

We analyze motility-induced phase separation and bubbly phase separation in a two-dimensional lattice model of self-propelled particles. We compare systems where the dense (liquid) phase has slab and droplet geometries. We find that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-18 Liheng Yao , Robert L. Jack

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

The observation of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation (LLPS) in biological cells has dramatically shifted the paradigm that soluble proteins are uniformly dispersed in the cytoplasm or nucleoplasm. The LLPS region is preceded by a one-phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-30 Gonen Golani , Manas Seal , Mrityunjoy Kar , Anthony A. Hyman , Daniella Goldfarb , Samuel Safran

An interacting one-dimensional electron system, the Luttinger liquid, is distinct from the "conventional" Fermi liquids formed by interacting electrons in two and three dimensions. Some of its most spectacular properties are revealed in the…

We carry out a comprehensive linear stability analysis of active Brownian particle systems around a constant homogeneous state. These scalar models, being important prototypes for the continuous description of active matter, are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Michele Coti Zelati , Lucas Ertzbischoff , David Gerard-Varet

Local detailed balance (LDB) is a central guiding principle for modeling nonequilibrium stochastic dynamics, yet it only constrains the ratio of forward and backward transition rates and does not fix the steady state. Although the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Takahiro Kanazawa , Kyogo Kawaguchi , Kyosuke Adachi

Living systems operate far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Enzymatic activity can induce broken detailed balance at the molecular scale. This molecular scale breaking of detailed balance is crucial to achieve biological functions such as…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 F. Gnesotto , F. Mura , J. Gladrow , C. P. Broedersz

Spontaneous phase separation instabilities with the formation of various types of charge and spin pairing (pseudo)gaps in $U>0$ Hubbard model including the {\it next nearest neighbor coupling} are calculated with the emphasis on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-16 A. N. Kocharian , Kun Fang , G. W. Fernando

We derive an extension of the mode coupling theory for the liquid-glass transition to a class of models of confined fluids, where the fluid particles evolve in a disordered array of interaction sites. We find that the corresponding…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Krakoviack

Steady structures originating from dynamic self-assembly have begun to show their advantages in new generation materials, and pose challenges to equilibrium self-assembly. In view of the important role of confinement in self-assembly, here,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Rui-fen Zhang , Chun-lai Ren , Jia-wei Feng , Yu-qiang Ma

Using novel micro-printing techniques, we develop a versatile experimental setup that allows us to study how lateral confinement tames the active flows and defect properties of the microtubule/kinesin active nematic system. We demonstrate…

Employing X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy we measure the kinetics and dynamics of a pressure-induced liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) in a water-lysozyme solution. Scattering invariants and kinetic information provide evidence…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-13 M. Moron , A. Al-Masoodi , C. Lovato , M. Reiser , L. Randolph , G. Surmeier , J. Bolle , F. Westermeier , M. Sprung , R. Winter , M. Paulus , C. Gutt

Recent studies have suggested a new phase in the extended Bose-Hubbard model in one dimension at integer filling [1,2]. In this work, we show that this new phase is phase-separated into a supersolid and superfluid part, generated by…

Phase separation in charged systems may involve the replacement of critical points by microphase separated states, or charge-density-wave states. A density functional theory for highly charged colloids at low ionic strength is developed to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick B. Warren