Activity-driven sorting, approach to criticality and turbulent flows in dense persistent active fluids

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Main Authors: Dutta, Suman, Chaudhuri, Pinaki, Rao, Madan, Dasgupta, Chandan
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Published: 2025
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author Dutta, Suman
Chaudhuri, Pinaki
Rao, Madan
Dasgupta, Chandan
author_facet Dutta, Suman
Chaudhuri, Pinaki
Rao, Madan
Dasgupta, Chandan
contents We show that dense active fluids comprising interacting particles with persistent self-propulsion are driven to a non-equilibrium steady state consisting of co-moving particles with co-aligned active forces. This velocity and force sorting appears to be associated with a critical state where the length scales associated with spatial correlations of the velocity and the propulsive force grow with system size. At large system sizes, these growing velocity domains are accompanied by the appearance of dynamic macroscopic voids in the steady state, associated with large density fluctuations. The dynamics of the macroscopic voids drives a new kind of turbulent state.
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spellingShingle Activity-driven sorting, approach to criticality and turbulent flows in dense persistent active fluids
Dutta, Suman
Chaudhuri, Pinaki
Rao, Madan
Dasgupta, Chandan
Soft Condensed Matter
We show that dense active fluids comprising interacting particles with persistent self-propulsion are driven to a non-equilibrium steady state consisting of co-moving particles with co-aligned active forces. This velocity and force sorting appears to be associated with a critical state where the length scales associated with spatial correlations of the velocity and the propulsive force grow with system size. At large system sizes, these growing velocity domains are accompanied by the appearance of dynamic macroscopic voids in the steady state, associated with large density fluctuations. The dynamics of the macroscopic voids drives a new kind of turbulent state.
title Activity-driven sorting, approach to criticality and turbulent flows in dense persistent active fluids
topic Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00376