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Minimal models of self-propelled particles with short-range volume exclusion interactions have been shown to exhibit signatures of phase separation. Here I show that the observed interfacial stability and fluctuations in motility-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-11 Chiu Fan Lee

Active matter systems are inherently out of equilibrium and break the detailed balance (DB) at the microscopic scale, exhibiting vital collective phenomena such as motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). Here, we introduce a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-30 Jie Su , Zhiyu Cao , Jin Wang , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

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 the dynamical steady-states of a monolayer of chemically active self-phoretic colloids as a function of packing fraction and self-propulsion speed by means of Brownian dynamics simulations. We focus on the case that a chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-11 Federico Fadda , D. A. Matoz-Fernandez , René van Roij , Sara Jabbari-Farouji

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

We present results from a comprehensive numerical study of {\it morphological phase separation} (MPS) in unstable thin liquid films on a 2-dimensional substrate. We study the quantitative properties of the evolution morphology via several…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-13 Prabhat K. Jaiswal , Manish Vashishtha , Sanjay Puri , Rajesh Khanna

The motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) is the spontaneous aggregation of active particles, while equilibrium phase separation (EPS) is thermodynamically driven by attractive interactions between passive particles. Despite such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-07 Kyosuke Adachi , Kyogo Kawaguchi

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

Homogeneous active Brownian particle (ABP) systems with purely repulsive interactions are considered to have simple phase behavior, but various physical attributes of active entities can lead to variation in the collective dynamics. Recent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-03 Monika Sanoria , Raghunath Chelakkot , Amitabha Nandi

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

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

Active colloids exhibit persistent motion, which can lead to motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). However, there currently exists no microscopic theory to account for this phenomenon. We report a first-principles theory, free of fit…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 T. F. F. Farage , P. Krinninger , J. M. Brader

The motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) phenomenon in active matter has been of great interest for the past decade or so. A central conceptual puzzle is that this behavior, which is generally characterized as a nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-28 Venkat Venkatasubramanian , Abhishek Sivaram , N. Sanjeevrajan , Arun Sankar

We investigate the collective dynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) subjected to a steady two-dimensional four-roll-mill flow using numerical simulations. By varying the packing fraction ($\phi$), we uncover a novel flow-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Soni D. Prajapati , Kusum Seervi , Akshay Bhatnagar , Anupam Gupta

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

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

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 present a hydrodynamic theory for systems of dipolar active Brownian particles which, in the regime of weak dipolar coupling, predicts the onset of motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), consistent with Brownian dynamics (BD)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-29 Elena Sesé-Sansa , Guo-Jun Liao , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Sabine H. L. Klapp

We investigate the behavior of active Brownian particles (ABP) within a temporal complex network framework approach. We focused on the node degree distribution, average path length, and average clustering coefficient across the P\'eclet…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Italo Salas , Francisca Guzmán-Lastra , Denisse Pastén , Ariel Norambuena

In a companion paper, we put forth a thermodynamic model for complex formation via a chemical reaction involving multiple macromolecular species, which may subsequently undergo liquid-liquid phase separation and a further transition into a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Ruoyao Zhang , Sheng Mao , Mikko P. Haataja