Traveling fronts in active-passive particle mixtures
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| author | Wysocki, Adam Winkler, Roland G. Gompper, Gerhard |
| author_facet | Wysocki, Adam Winkler, Roland G. Gompper, Gerhard |
| contents | The emergent dynamics in phase-separated mixtures of isometric active and passive Brownian particles is studied numerically in two dimensions. A novel steady-state of well-defined traveling fronts is observed, where the interface between the dense and the dilute phase propagates and the bulk of both phases is (nearly) at rest. Two kind of interfaces, advancing and receding, are formed by spontaneous symmetry breaking, induced by an instability of a planar interface due to the formation of localized vortices. The propagation arises due to flux imbalance at the interface, strongly resembling traveling fronts in reaction-diffusion systems. Above a threshold, the interface velocity decreases linearly with increasing fraction of active particles. |
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| spellingShingle | Traveling fronts in active-passive particle mixtures Wysocki, Adam Winkler, Roland G. Gompper, Gerhard Soft Condensed Matter Pattern Formation and Solitons The emergent dynamics in phase-separated mixtures of isometric active and passive Brownian particles is studied numerically in two dimensions. A novel steady-state of well-defined traveling fronts is observed, where the interface between the dense and the dilute phase propagates and the bulk of both phases is (nearly) at rest. Two kind of interfaces, advancing and receding, are formed by spontaneous symmetry breaking, induced by an instability of a planar interface due to the formation of localized vortices. The propagation arises due to flux imbalance at the interface, strongly resembling traveling fronts in reaction-diffusion systems. Above a threshold, the interface velocity decreases linearly with increasing fraction of active particles. |
| title | Traveling fronts in active-passive particle mixtures |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Pattern Formation and Solitons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00850 |