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Aggressive Phase Separation in Dense Mixtures of Passive and Active Particles

  • Purnendu Pathak
  • Gokul Upadhyay
  • Subir K. Das
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Abstract

Using Vicsek-like self-propulsion rule, we study kinetics of liquid-liquid phase separation in mixtures of passive and active particles. For evolutions following temperature quenches of homogeneous configurations to the immiscible region of the phase diagram, we identify a remarkably strong dependence of the domain growth exponent on the choice of final state point. The singular dependence is indicative of the possibility of even an exponentially fast growth for suitable choices of system parameters. This striking observation, supported by finite-size scaling and other advanced analyses, is despite the fact that the overall mixture density is quite high that risks congestion with the prospect of slowing down particle transport. From flocking in pure biological systems to robotic swarming, these results are of much practical relevance. Theoretical pictures suitable for interpreting such high growth rates are discussed. In this regard, we discuss coarsening in the velocity field as well that describes how the density field coarsening follows the latter.

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@misc{pathak2026aggressive,
  title = {{Aggressive Phase Separation in Dense Mixtures of Passive and Active Particles}},
  author = {Purnendu Pathak and Gokul Upadhyay and Subir K. Das},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.07572},
  eprint = {2609.07572},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07572},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - UNPB
TI  - Aggressive Phase Separation in Dense Mixtures of Passive and Active Particles
AU  - Purnendu Pathak
AU  - Gokul Upadhyay
AU  - Subir K. Das
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/07
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.07572
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07572
AB  - Using Vicsek-like self-propulsion rule, we study kinetics of liquid-liquid phase separation in mixtures of passive and active particles. For evolutions following temperature quenches of homogeneous configurations to the immiscible region of the phase diagram, we identify a remarkably strong dependence of the domain growth exponent on the choice of final state point. The singular dependence is indicative of the possibility of even an exponentially fast growth for suitable choices of system parameters. This striking observation, supported by finite-size scaling and other advanced analyses, is despite the fact that the overall mixture density is quite high that risks congestion with the prospect of slowing down particle transport. From flocking in pure biological systems to robotic swarming, these results are of much practical relevance. Theoretical pictures suitable for interpreting such high growth rates are discussed. In this regard, we discuss coarsening in the velocity field as well that describes how the density field coarsening follows the latter.
ER  -