Critical Phenomena in Active Matter

Abstract

We investigate the effect of self-propulsion on a mean-field order-disorder transition. Starting from a ${\phi }^4$ scalar field theory subject to an exponentially correlated noise, we exploit the Unified Colored Noise Approximation to map the non-equilibrium active dynamics onto an effective equilibrium one. This allows us to follow the evolution of the second-order critical point as a function of the noise parameters: the correlation time $\tau$ and the noise strength $D$. Our results suggest that $\tau$ is a crucial ingredient that changes the location of the critical point but, remarkably, not the universality class of the model. We also estimate the effect of Gaussian fluctuations on the mean-field approximation finding an Ornstein-Zernike like expression for the static structure factor at long wave lengths. Finally, to assess the validity of our predictions, we compare the mean-field theoretical results with numerical simulations of active Lennard-Jones particles in two and three dimensions, finding a good qualitative agreement at small $\tau$ values.

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