Motility-induced phase separation is reentrant

Jie Su; Mengkai Feng; Yunfei Du; Huijun Jiang; Zhonghuai Hou

doi:10.1038/s42005-023-01172-6

Communications Physics (Mar 2023)

Motility-induced phase separation is reentrant

Jie Su,
Mengkai Feng,
Yunfei Du,
Huijun Jiang,
Zhonghuai Hou

Affiliations

Jie Su: Department of Chemical Physics & Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China
Mengkai Feng: Department of Chemical Physics & Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China
Yunfei Du: Department of Chemical Physics & Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China
Huijun Jiang: Department of Chemical Physics & Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China
Zhonghuai Hou: Department of Chemical Physics & Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01172-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

Read online

Active systems made of self-propelled units are widespread in nature, and Active Brownian particles (ABPs) are one of the simplest such system The authors theoretically and numerically investigate the collective assembly of ABPs finding a new re-entrant phase that enables motility-induced phase separation, which is dependent solely on activity.

Published in Communications Physics

ISSN: 2399-3650 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Astronomy: Astrophysics; Science: Physics
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsphys/

About the journal