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Meso-scale turbulence was originally observed experimentally in various suspensions of swimming bacteria, as well as in the collective motion of active colloids. The corresponding large-scale dynamical patterns were reproduced in a simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-30 Vasco M. Worlitzer , Gil Ariel , Avraham Be'er , Holger Stark , Markus Bär , Sebastian Heidenreich

Phase separation between two fluids in two-dimensions is investigated by means of Direct Numerical Simulations of coupled Navier-Stokes and Cahn-Hilliard equations. We study the phase ordering process in the presence of an external stirring…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Berti , G. Boffetta , M. Cencini , A. Vulpiani

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 work we have characterized the phase behaviour and the dynamics of bidimensional mixtures of active and passive Brownian particles. We have evaluated state diagrams at several concentrations of the passive components finding that,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-12 Diego Rogel Rodriguez , Francisco Alarcon , Raul Martinez , Jorge Ramirez , Chantal Valeriani

We carried out three-dimensional simulations, with about 1.4 million particles, of phase segregation in a low density binary fluid mixture, described mesoscopically by energy and momentum conserving Boltzmann-Vlasov equations. Using a…

patt-sol · Physics 2008-02-03 S. Bastea , J. L. Lebowitz

The aim of this paper is to discuss the mathematical modeling of Brownian active particle systems, a recently popular paradigmatic system for self-propelled particles. We present four microscopic models with different types of repulsive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-31 M. Bruna , M. Burger , A. Esposito , S. M. Schulz

We study phase ordering kinetics in symmetric and asymmetric binary mixtures, undergoing an order-disorder transition below the critical temperature. Microscopically, we model the kinetics via antiferromagnetic Ising model with Kawasaki…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-09 Prasenjit Das , Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta , Sanjay Puri

We perform a quantitative analysis of Monte Carlo simulations results of phase separation in ternary blends upon evaporation of one component. Specifically, we calculate the average domain size and plot it as a function of simulation time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-17 S. A. Muntean , V. C. E. Kronberg , M. Colangeli , A. Muntean , J. van Stam , E. Moons , E. N. M. Cirillo

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

Bacterial swarming is a rapid mass-migration, in which thousands of cells spread collectively to colonize a surface. Physically, swarming is a natural example of active particles that use energy to generate motion. Accordingly,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-14 Avraham Be`er , Bella Ilkanaiv , Renan Gross , Daniel B. Kearns , Sebastian Heidenreich , Markus Bär , Gil Ariel

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

Curvature fundamentally alters the collective properties of soft, active, and biological materials. Here we study motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), a canonical non-equilibrium transition, and demonstrate that even weak and slowly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Toler H. Webb , Helen S. Ansell , Daniel M. Sussman

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

We examine run and tumble disks in two-dimensional systems where the particles also have a Magnus component to their dynamics. For increased activity, we find that the system forms a motility-induced phase-separated (MIPS) state with chiral…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-27 B. Adorjani , A. Libal , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We study the dynamics of phase synchronization in growing populations of discrete phase oscillatory systems when the division process is coupled to the distribution of oscillator phases. Using mean field theory, linear stability analysis,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Wen Yu , Kevin B. Wood

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…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-06 Kan Chang , Yulin Li , Ming Yuan , Masaki Sano , Zhihong You , H. P. Zhang

Phase separation of multicomponent lipid membranes is characterized by the nucleation and coarsening of circular membrane domains that grow slowly in time as $\sim t^{1/3}$, following classical theories of coalescence and Ostwald ripening.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-01 Daniel P. Arnold , Aakanksha Gubbala , Sho C. Takatori

We present results from extensive 3-d molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of phase separation kinetics in fluids. A coarse-graining procedure is used to obtain state-of-the-art MD results. We observe an extended period of temporally linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Shaista Ahmad , Subir K. Das , Sanjay Puri

The phase separation of two-dimensional binary mixtures has been studied through numerical Langevin simulations based on a Ginzburg-Landau free energy. We have considered not symmetric mixtures with and without imposed shear flow. In the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lamura , G. Gonnella

The complex interactions underlying collective motion in biological systems give rise to emergent behaviours such as flocking, sorting, and cooperative transport. These dynamics often involve species with different motilities coordinating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-19 Laura Alvarez , Elena Sesé-Sansa , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Lucio Isa