Two-temperature activity induces liquid-crystal phases inaccessible in equilibrium
arXiv:2205.00667 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.107.024701
Abstract
In equilibrium hard-rod fluids, and in effective hard-rod descriptions of anisotropic soft-particle systems, the transition from the isotropic (I) phase to the nematic phase (N) is observed above the rod aspect ratio L/D = 3.70 as predicted by Onsager. We examine the fate of this criterion in a molecular dynamics study of a system of soft repulsive spherocylinders rendered active by coupling half the particles to a heat bath at a higher temperature than that imposed on the other half. We show that the system phase separates and self-organizes into various liquid-crystalline phases that are not observed in equilibrium for the respective aspect ratios. In particular, we find a nematic phase for L/D = 3 and a smectic phase for L/D = 2 above a critical activity.
arXiv comment13 pages, 15 figures
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