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Motility-Induced Microphase and Macrophase Separation in a Two-Dimensional Active Brownian Particle System

Caporusso, Claudio B.
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Digregorio, Pasquale  
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Levis, Demian
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October 23, 2020
Physical Review Letters

As a result of nonequilibrium forces, purely repulsive self-propelled particles undergo macrophase separation between a dense and a dilute phase. We present a thorough study of the ordering kinetics of such motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) in active Brownian particles in two dimensions, and we show that it is generically accompanied by microphase separation. The growth of the dense phase follows a law akin to the one of liquid-gas phase separation. However, it is made of a mosaic of hexatic microdomains whose size does not coarsen indefinitely, leaving behind a network of extended topological defects from which microscopic dilute bubbles arise. The characteristic length of these finite-size structures increases with activity, independently of the choice of initial conditions.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.178004
Web of Science ID

WOS:000582242700014

Author(s)
Caporusso, Claudio B.
Digregorio, Pasquale  
Levis, Demian
Cugliandolo, Leticia F.
Gonnella, Giuseppe
Date Issued

2020-10-23

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

125

Issue

17

Article Number

178004

Subjects

Physics, Multidisciplinary

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November 24, 2020
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