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The nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation provides a natural extension of the classical model for phase separation by incorporating long-range interactions through a singular convolution kernel. While this formulation admits a rich existence and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Andrés Miniguano-Trujillo , Andrea Poiatti , Maurizio Grasselli , Benjamin Goddard , John Pearson

We investigate the physical properties of steady flows in a holographic first-order phase transition model, extending from the thermodynamics at equilibrium to the real-time dynamics far from equilibrium. Through spinodal decomposition or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-24 Qian Chen , Yuxuan Liu , Yu Tian , Xiaoning Wu , Hongbao Zhang

Focusing on a two-field Swift-Hohenberg model with linear nonreciprocal interactions, this study investigates how emerging higher-codimension points act as organizing centers for the nonequilibrium phase diagram that features various steady…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-05 Yuta Tateyama , Daniel Greve , Hiroaki Ito , Shigeyuki Komura , Hiroyuki Kitahata , Uwe Thiele

We employ Statistical Field Theory techniques for coarse-graining the steady-state properties of Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles. The computation is carried on in the framework of the Unified Colored Noise approximation that allows an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-27 Matteo Paoluzzi , Claudio Maggi , Andrea Crisanti

We numerically investigate the competition between phase separation and dynamical arrest in a colloidal system interacting via a short ranged attractive potential. Equilibrium fluid configurations are quenched at two different temperatures…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Foffi , C. De Michele , F. Sciortino , P. Tartaglia

We present extensive results from 2-dimensional simulations of phase separation kinetics in a model with order-parameter dependent mobility. We find that the time-dependent structure factor exhibits dynamical scaling and the scaling…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Sanjay Puri , Alan Bray , Joel Lebowitz

We uncover a new type of turbulence -- activity-induced homogeneous and isotropic turbulence in a model that has been employed to investigate motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) in a system of microswimmers. The active…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-05 Nadia Bihari Padhan , Kolluru Venkata Kiran , Rahul Pandit

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

The behavior of energy minimizers at the boundary of the domain is of great importance in the Van de Waals-Cahn-Hilliard theory for fluid-fluid phase transitions, since it describes the effect of the container walls on the configuration of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Bernardo Galvao-Sousa

The Cahn-Hilliard and Ginzburg-Landau (Allen-Cahn) equations are derived from the second law. The intuitive approach by separation of full divergences is supported by a more rigorous method, based on Liu procedure and a constitutive entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-08 Peter Ván

A simple theoretical approach is used to investigate active colloids at the free interface and near repulsive substrates. We employ dynamical density functional theory to determine the steady-state density profiles in an effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-03 René Wittmann , Joseph M. Brader

Proteins and nucleic acids can spontaneously self-assemble into membraneless droplet-like compartments, both in vitro and in vivo. A key component of these droplets are multi-valent proteins that possess several adhesive domains with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-10 Srivastav Ranganathan , Eugene Shakhnovich

Active matter comprised of many self-driven units can exhibit emergent collective behaviors such as pattern formation and phase separation in both biologica and synthetic systems. While these behaviors are increasingly well understood for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-27 Syeda Sabrina , Matthew Spellings , Sharon C. Glotzer , Kyle J. M. Bishop

The main objectives of this article are two-fold. First, we study the effect of the nonlinear Onsager mobility on the phase transition and on the well-posedness of the Cahn-Hilliard equation modeling a binary system. It is shown in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Honghu Liu , Taylan Sengul , Shouhong Wang

Nonequilibrium phase transitions are notably difficult to analyze because their mechanisms depend on the system's dynamics in a complex way due to the lack of time-reversal symmetry. To complicate matters, the system's steady-state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-01 Ruben Zakine , Eric Simonnet , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

The Cahn-Hilliard model with reaction terms can lead to situations in which no coarsening is taking place and, in contrast, growth and division of droplets occur which all do not grow larger than a certain size. This phenomenon has been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Robert Nürnberg , Andrea Signori

We study the driven-dissipative Bose-Hubbard model with all-to-all hopping and subject to incoherent pumping and decay, as is naturally probed in several recent experiments on excitons in WS2/WSe2 moir\'e systems, as well as quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-10 Zhenhao Song , Tessa Cookmeyer , Leon Balents

In this work we identify and investigate a novel bifurcation in conserved systems. This secondary bifurcation stops active phase separation in its nonlinear regime. It is then either replaced by an extended, system-filling, spatially…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-02-22 Frederik J. Thomsen , Lisa Rapp , Fabian Bergmann , Walter Zimmermann

Using high-speed confocal microscopy, we measure the particle positions in a colloidal suspension under large amplitude oscillatory shear. Using the particle positions we quantify the in situ anisotropy of the pair-correlation function -- a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 Neil Y. C Lin , Sushmit Goyal , Xiang Cheng , Roseanna N. Zia , Fernando Escobedo , Itai Cohen

We carry out a comprehensive linear stability analysis of active Brownian particle systems around a constant homogeneous state. These scalar models, being important prototypes for the continuous description of active matter, are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Michele Coti Zelati , Lucas Ertzbischoff , David Gerard-Varet