3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Understanding quorum sensing self-organization: Clustering and defect-induced ordering of diffusing particles
Feifei Liu, Vyacheslav R. Misko, Yunyun Li +1
Quorum sensing (QS) is known in biology as a form of intercellular communication mediated by signaling molecules called autoinducers. The QS protocol governs the transition from in…
cond-mat.soft2025
Large-scale dynamics in visual quorum sensing chiral suspensions
Yuxin Zhou, Qingqing Yin, Shubhadip Nayak +4
Motility induced phase separation is an efficient aggregation mechanism of active matter, yet biological systems exhibit richer organization through communication among constituent…
cond-mat.soft2025
Diffusion Transients in Motility-Induced Phase Separation
Shubhadip Nayak, Poulami Bag, Pulak K. Ghosh +4
We numerically investigate normal diffusion in a two-dimensional athermal suspension of active particles undergoing motility-induced phase separation. The particles are modeled as…