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Collectives of actively-moving particles can spontaneously separate into dilute and dense phases -- a fascinating phenomenon known as motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). MIPS is well-studied for randomly-moving particles with no…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Hongbo Zhao , Andrej Košmrlj , Sujit S. Datta

We study diffusive dynamics of phase separation in a binary mixture, following critical quench, both in spatial dimensions $d=2$ and $d=3$. Particular focus in this work is to obtain information about effects of system size and correction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Suman Majumder , Subir K. Das

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), the phenomenon in which purely repulsive active particles undergo a liquid-gas phase separation, is among the simplest and most widely studied examples of a nonequilibrium phase transition. Here, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-11 Ahmad K. Omar , Katherine Klymko , Trevor GrandPre , Phillip L. Geissler

We study a system of purely repulsive spherical self-propelled particles in the minimal set-up inducing Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). We show that, even if explicit alignment interactions are absent, a growing order in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-26 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi

The behavior of a phase separating binary mixture in uniform shear flow is investigated by numerical simulations and in a renormalization group (RG) approach. Results show the simultaneous existence of domains of two characteristic scales.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-05 F. Corberi , G. Gonnella , A. Lamura

Self-propelled particles include both self-phoretic synthetic colloids and various micro-organisms. By continually consuming energy, they bypass the laws of equilibrium thermodynamics. These laws enforce the Boltzmann distribution in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-15 Michael E. Cates , Julien Tailleur

We examine motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) in two-dimensional run and tumble disk systems using both machine learning and noise fluctuation analysis. Our measures suggest that within the MIPS state there are several distinct…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 D. McDermott , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Quenched or frozen-in structural disorder is ubiquitous in real experimental systems. Much of the progress is achieved in understanding the phase separation of such systems using the diffusion-driven coarsening in Ising model with quenched…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-15 Rounak Bhattacharyya , Bhaskar Sen Gupta

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

A systematic investigation of the phase separation dynamics in self-assembled multi-component bilayer fluid vesicles and open membranes is presented. We use large-scale dissipative particle dynamics to explicitly account for solvent,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Mohamed Laradji , P. B. Sunil Kumar

Results are presented for the phase separation process of a binary mixture subject to an uniform shear flow quenched from a disordered to a homogeneous ordered phase. The kinetics of the process is described in the context of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-05 F. Corberi , G. Gonnella , A. Lamura

Via molecular dynamics simulations, we study the kinetics in a phase separating active matter model. Quantitative results for the isotropic bicontinuous pattern formation, its growth and aging, studied, respectively, via the two-point…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-27 Subir K. Das

Using a multi-phase field model, we examine how particle deformability, which is a proxy for cell stiffness, affects motility induced phase separation (MIPS). We show that purely repulsive deformable, i.e., squishy, cells phase separate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-12 Austin Hopkins , Benjamin Loewe , Michael Chiang , Davide Marenduzzo , M. Cristina Marchetti

A milestone of phase separation kinetics is the emergence of universal power laws $\sim t^{1/z}$ governing the domain growth evolution. We investigate a phase-separating polar active model comprising a scalar density field with an advective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-20 Massimiliano Semeraro , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Giuseppe Gonnella , Adriano Tiribocchi

A description of phase separation kinetics for solid binary (A,B) mixtures in thin film geometry based on the Kawasaki spin-exchange kinetic Ising model is presented in a discrete lattice molecular field formulation. It is shown that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Subir K. Das , Jürgen Horbach , Kurt Binder

We study the phase separation kinetics of miktoarm star polymer (MSP) melts and blends with diverse architectures using dissipative particle dynamics simulations. Our study focuses on symmetric and asymmetric miktoarm star polymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-18 Dorothy Gogoi , Avinash Chauhan , Sanjay Puri , Awaneesh Singh

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) is a well-studied nonequilibrium collective phenomenon observed in active particles. Recently, there has been growing interest in how coupling the self-propulsion of active particles to chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-14 Euijoon Kwon , Yongjae Oh , Yongjoo Baek

We computationally study suspensions of slow and fast active Brownian particles that have undergone motility induced phase separation and are at steady state. Such mixtures, of varying non-zero activity, remain largely unexplored even…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-11 Nicholas J Lauersdorf , Ehssan Nazockdast , Daphne Klotsa

Phase separation, the spontaneous segregation of density, is a ubiquitous phenomenon observed across diverse physical and biological systems. Within a crowd of motile elements, active phase separation emerges from the interplay of activity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-26 Kyosuke Adachi

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