Inertia changes evolution of motility-induced phase separation in active matter across particle activity.

Autor: Kryuchkov NP; Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia., Nasyrov AD; Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia., Gursky KD; Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia., Yurchenko SO; Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physical review. E [Phys Rev E] 2023 Apr; Vol. 107 (4-1), pp. 044601.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.107.044601
Abstrakt: The effects of inertia in active matter and motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) have attracted growing interest but still remain poorly studied. We studied MIPS behavior in the Langevin dynamics across a broad range of particle activity and damping rate values with molecular dynamic simulations. Here we show that the MIPS stability region across particle activity values consists of several domains separated by discontinuous or sharp changes in susceptibility of mean kinetic energy. These domain boundaries have fingerprints in the system's kinetic energy fluctuations and characteristics of gas, liquid, and solid subphases, such as the number of particles, densities, or the power of energy release due to activity. The observed domain cascade is most stable at intermediate damping rates but loses its distinctness in the Brownian limit or vanishes along with phase separation at lower damping values.
Databáze: MEDLINE