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cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Bulk and microphase separation in chiral active systems

Sumeja Bureković, S. J. Kole, Ananyo Maitra +1

The paper investigates how chirality in active particle systems influences phase separation, revealing bulk and microphase separation regimes, chiral vapor bubbles, and traveling w…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Nucleation and time-reversal symmetry breaking in nonconserved scalar field theories

Noah Ziethen, Michalis Chatzittofi, Michael E. Cates +1

Classical nucleation theory (CNT) describes the formation of a stable phase from a metastable one in terms of a single reaction coordinate that corresponds to the radius of a nucle…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Nonequilibrium nucleation theory for nonconserved fields: from active matter to population dynamics

Michalis Chatzittofi, Noah Ziethen, Cesare Nardini +1

Classical nucleation theory (CNT) describes the formation of a stable phase from a metastable one. In equilibrium systems, it quantifies the free-energy competition between a favor…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Generic nonlocal statistics of the stationary measure in conserved active systems

Filippo De Luca, Michael E. Cates, Cesare Nardini

The stationary measure of equilibrium systems with detailed balance follows a Boltzmann distribution, so that for short-ranged interactions the measure is local, meaning that dista…

cond-mat.soft2026

Eppur si muove: Shape of topological defects -- and consequent motion -- in active nematics

Giacomo Marco La Montagna, Sumeja Burekovic, Ananyo Maitra +1

Topological defects in systems with liquid-crystalline order are crucial in determining their large-scale properties. In active systems, they are known to have properties impossibl…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Active Cahn-Hilliard theory for nonequilibrium phase separation: quantitative macroscopic predictions and a microscopic derivation

Sumeja Bureković, Sumeja Bureković, Filippo De Luca +2

Phase-separating active systems can display phenomenology that is impossible in equilibrium. The binodal densities are not solely determined by a bulk (effective) free energy, but…