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Yaouen Fily1, Silke Henkes, M Cristina Marchetti.
Abstract
We study numerically a model of soft polydisperse and non-aligning self-propelled particles interacting through elastic repulsion, which was recently shown to exhibit active phase separation in two dimensions in the absence of any attractive interaction or breaking of the orientational symmetry. We construct a phase diagram in terms of activity and packing fraction and identify three distinct regimes: a homogeneous liquid with anomalous cluster size distribution, a phase-separated state both at high and at low density, and a frozen phase. We provide a physical interpretation of the various regimes and develop scaling arguments for the boundaries separating them.Entities:
Year: 2014 PMID: 24652167 DOI: 10.1039/c3sm52469h
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Soft Matter ISSN: 1744-683X Impact factor: 3.679