Ordering Kinetics in the Active Model B

Abstract

We undertake a detailed numerical study of the {\it Active Model B} proposed by Wittkowski et al. [Nature Comm. {\bf 5}, 4351 (2014)]. We find that the introduction of activity has a drastic effect on the ordering kinetics. First, the domain growth law shows a crossover from the usual Lifshitz-Slyozov growth law for phase separation ($L\sim t^{1/3}$, where $t$ is the time) to a novel growth law ($L\sim t^{1/4}$) at late times. Second, the correlation function exhibits dynamical scaling for a given activity strength $\lambda$, but the scaling function depends on $\lambda$.