Velocity alignment promotes motility-induced phase separation

Abstract

We study the phase behavior of polar Active Brownian Particles moving in two-spatial dimensions and interacting through volume exclusion and velocity alignment. We combine particle-based simulations of the microscopic model with a simple mean-field kinetic model to understand the impact of velocity alignment on the motility-induced phase separation of self-propelled disks. We show that, as the alignment strength is increased, approaching the onset of collective motion from below, orientational correlations grow, rendering the diffusive reorientation dynamics slower. As a consequence, the tendency of particles to aggregate into isotropic clusters is enhanced, favoring the complete de-mixing of the system into a low and high-density phase.

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