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Motility-Induced Phase Separation of Active Particles in the Presence of Velocity Alignment

Abstract

Self-propelled particle (SPP) systems are intrinsically out of equi-librium systems, where each individual particle converts energy into work to move in a dissipative medium. When interacting through a velocity alignment mechanism, and with the medium acting as a momentum sink, even momen-tum is not conserved. In this scenario, a mapping into an equilibrium system seems unlikely. Here, we show that an entropy functional can be derived for SPPs with velocity alignment and density-dependent speed, at least in the (orientationally) disordered phase. This non-trivial result has important phys-ical consequences. The study of the entropy functional reveals that the system can undergo phase separation before the orientational-order phase transition known to occur in SPP systems with velocity alignment. Moreover, we indi-cate that the spinodal line is a function of the alignment sensitivity and show that density fluctuations as well as the critical spatial diffusion, that leads to phase separation, dramatically increase as the orientational-order transition is approached.
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hal-01086368 , version 1 (24-11-2014)

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Julien Barré, Raphaël Chétrite, Massimiliano Muratori, Fernando Peruani. Motility-Induced Phase Separation of Active Particles in the Presence of Velocity Alignment. Journal of Statistical Physics, 2014, pp.15. ⟨10.1007/s10955-014-1008-9⟩. ⟨hal-01086368⟩
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