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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

Suspensions of Active Brownian Particles (ABP) undergo motility induced phase separation (MIPS) over a wide range of mean density and activity strength [1], even in the absence of an explicit attraction. Negative values of the mechanical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-07 Enrique Chacon , Francisco Alarcon , Jorge Ramirez , Pedro Tarazona , Chantal Valeriani

In a system of Self-Propelled Particles (SPPs), the combination of self-propulsion and excluded volume effects can result in a phase separation called Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). Previous studies reported that MIPS is one of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-03 Hiroya Yamamoto

We study non-equilibrium phases for interacting two-dimensional self-propelled particles with isotropic pair-wise interactions using a persistent kinetic Monte Carlo (MC) approach. We establish the quantitative phase diagram, including the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-17 Juliane U. Klamser , Sebastian C. Kapfer , Werner Krauth

Active soft matter frequently shows motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), where self-propelled particles condensate into clusters with an inner liquid-like structure. Such activity may also result in motility-induced crystallization…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-24 Max Philipp Holl , Alina Barbar Steinberg , Uwe Thiele

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

Droplets are essential for spatially controlling biomolecules in cells. To work properly, cells need to control the emergence and morphology of droplets. On the one hand, driven chemical reactions can affect droplets profoundly. For…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-14 Noah Ziethen , David Zwicker

Conventional phase segregation is controlled by a positive interfacial tension, which implies that the system relaxes towards a state in which the interfacial area (or length) is minimized, typically manifesting as a single droplet that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-24 Kathrin Hertäg , Joshua F. Robinson , Thomas Speck

We show that systematic particle rotations in a fluid composed of disk-shaped spinners can spontaneously lead to phase separation. The phenomenon arises out of a homogeneous and hydrostatic stationary state, due to a pressure feedback…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-28 Pasquale Digregorio , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Francisco Vega Reyes

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 propose a model describing the phase behavior of two-component membranes consisting of binary mixtures of electrically charged and neutral lipids. We take into account the structural phase transition (main-transition) of the hydrocarbon…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-11 Naofumi Shimokawa , Hiroki Himeno , Tsutomu Hamada , Masahiro Takagi , Shigeyuki Komura , David Andelman

We present a thermodynamically consistent model describing the dynamics of a multi-component mixture where one enzyme component catalyzes a reaction between other components. We find that the catalytic activity alone can induce phase…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Matthew W. Cotton , Ramin Golestanian , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

Morphological transitions of phase separation associated with the asymmetry of lipid composition were investigated using micrometer-sized vesicles of lipid bilayers made from a lipid mixture. The complete macro-phase-separated morphology…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Shunsuke F. Shimobayashi , Masatoshi Ichikawa , Takashi Taniguchi

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 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

We consider a continuum model for motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) of active Brownian particles [J. Chem. Phys. 142, 224149 (2015)]. Using a recently introduced perturbative analysis [Phys. Rev. E 98, 020604(R) (2018)], we show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-02 Lisa Rapp , Fabian Bergmann , Walter Zimmermann

Morphologies in phase separating systems can significantly influence the final properties of materials. We present extensive Monte Carlo (MC) simulation results on the segregation kinetics of the critical binary (AB) mixture with a fraction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-25 Samiksha Shrivastava , Awaneesh Singh

Understanding the mechanical properties of active suspensions is crucial for their potential applications in materials engineering. Among the various phenomena in active matter that have no analogue in equilibrium systems, motility-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-10 José Martín-Roca , Chantal Valeriani , Kristian Thijssen , Tyler Shendruk , Angelo Cacciuto

Phase separation is the thermodynamic process that explains how droplets form in multicomponent fluids. These droplets can provide controlled compartments to localize chemical reactions, and reactions can also affect the droplets' dynamics.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-02 David Zwicker

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) with pure repulsion is an ideal model to understand the effect of nonequilibrium on collective behaviors. It has long been established that activity can create effective attractions leading to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-01 Jie Su , Mengkai Feng , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou