Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Critical mingling and universal correlations in model binary active liquids

  • Nicolas Bain,
  • Denis Bartolo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15969
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Self-driven particles can drive the system out of equilibrium without the help of external forces. Here Bainet al. develop a model for two groups of motile bodies targeting opposite directions and show that the system exhibits critical behaviour as a function of particle density.