2022/01/19 by Soumen De Karmakar, De Karmakar, Soumen, R. Ganesh +1
Physics and Astronomy · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Materials Science · #Micro and Nano Robotics #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Material Dynamics and Properties
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2201.07623
Phase diagram of the phenomenon of motility induced phase separation (MIPS) for a collection of self-propelled interacting disks is explored using Langevin dynamics simulation with particular emphasis on disk wall softness and the range of interaction amongst disks. We bring out important changes in the MIPS phase diagram both due to softness and inertia of the disks. Specifically, we show that overdamped softer disks phase separate while MIPS becomes possible only for harder disks in the inertial limit. Unlike most of the earlier studies on MIPS which consider hard-core disks, our findings may be directly applicable to soft active matter for a range of biological systems.