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Active Brownian particles (ABPs) represent a minimal model of active matter consisting of self-propelled spheres with purely repulsive interactions and rotational noise. Here, we examine the pressure of ABPs in two dimensions in both closed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-11 Adam Patch , David Yllanes , M. Cristina Marchetti

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

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) is a paradigmatic non-equilibrium transition in active matter, determined by the P\'eclet number and packing fraction. We investigate the single-phase and phase-separated regimes of MIPS using a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Italo Salas , Francisca Guzmán-Lastra , Denisse Pastén , Ariel Norambuena

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

Using previous results from boundary conformal field theory and integrability, a phase diagram is derived for the 2 dimensional Ising model at its bulk tri-critical point as a function of boundary magnetic field and boundary spin-coupling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ian Affleck

Using a path integral approach, we derive and study the hydrodynamic equations and large deviation functions for three active lattice gases. After a review of the path integral for master equations, we first look at a one dimensional model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-17 Luke Neville

Via computer simulations we study evolution dynamics in systems of continuously moving Active Brownian Particles. The obtained results are discussed against those from the passive 2D Ising case. Following sudden quenches of uniform…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-14 Florian Dittrich , Jiarul Midya , Peter Virnau , Subir K. Das

The effect of curvature on an ensemble of repulsive active Brownian particles (ABPs) moving on a spherical surface is studied. Surface curvature strongly affects the dynamics of ABPs, as it introduces a new time scale $\tau=R/v_0$, with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Priyanka Iyer , Roland G. Winkler , Dmitry A. Fedosov , Gerhard Gompper

We demonstrate that deep learning techniques can be used to predict motility induced phase separation (MIPS) in suspensions of active Brownian particles (ABPs) by creating a notion of phase at the particle level. Using a fully connected…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-19 Austin R. Dulaney , John F. Brady

Dense active systems are widespread in nature, examples range from bacterial colonies to biological tissues. Dense clusters of active particles can be obtained by increasing the packing fraction of the system or taking advantage of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-13 Matteo Paoluzzi , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

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

We extend recent results on the exact hydrodynamics of a system of diffusive active particles displaying a motility-induced phase separation to account for typical fluctuations of the dynamical fields. By calculating correlation functions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-26 Tal Agranov , Sunghan Ro , Yariv Kafri , Vivien Lecomte

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

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

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

Non-equilibrium clustering and percolation are investigated in an archetypal model of two-dimensional active matter using dynamic simulations of self-propelled Brownian repulsive particles. We concentrate on the single-phase region up to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-09 David Evans , José Martín-Roca , Nathan J. Harmer , Chantal Valeriani , Mark A. Miller

Monte Carlo simulations and finite-size scaling analysis have been carried out to study the critical behavior and universality for the isotropic-nematic phase transition in a system of long straight rigid rods of length $k$ ($k$-mers) on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. A. Matoz-Fernandez , D. H. Linares , A. J. Ramirez-Pastor

We analyze the universal critical behavior at the chiral critical point in QCD with three degenerate quark masses. We confirm that this critical point lies in the universality class of the three dimensional Ising model. The symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-03-19 Dominik Smith , Christian Schmidt

Active systems, or active matter, are self-driven systems which live, or function, far from equilibrium - a paradigmatic example which we focus on here is provided by a suspension of self-motile particles. Active systems are far from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Giuseppe Gonnella , Davide Marenduzzo , Antonio Suma , Adriano Tiribocchi

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) is of great importance and has been extensively researched in overdamped systems, nevertheless, what impacts inertia will bring on kinetics of MIPS is lack of investigation. Here, we find that, not…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-09 Jie Su , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou