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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…
Active Cahn-Hilliard theory for nonequilibrium phase separation: quantitative macroscopic predictions and a microscopic derivation
Sumeja Bureković, Filippo De Luca, Michael E. Cates +1
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…
Active phase separation: new phenomenology from non-equilibrium physics
M. E. Cates, C. Nardini
In active systems, whose constituents have non-equilibrium dynamics at local level, fluid-fluid phase separation is widely observed. Examples include the formation of membraneless…
Statistical properties of microphase and bubbly phase-separated active fluids
Giordano Fausti, Cesare Nardini, Michael E Cates
In phase-separated active fluids, the Ostwald process can go into reverse leading to either microphase separation or bubbly phase separation. We show that the latter is formed of t…
Hyperuniformity in phase ordering: the roles of activity, noise, and non-constant mobility
Filippo De Luca, Xiao Ma, Cesare Nardini +1
Hyperuniformity emerges generically in the coarsening regime of phase-separating fluids. Numerical studies of active and passive systems have shown that the structure factor …
Classical Nucleation Theory for Active Fluid Phase Separation
M. E. Cates, C. Nardini
Classical nucleation theory (CNT), linking rare nucleation events to the free energy landscape of a growing nucleus, is central to understanding phase-change kinetics in passive fl…
Capillary interfacial tension in active phase separation
Giordano Fausti, Elsen Tjhung, Michael Cates +1
In passive fluid-fluid phase separation, a single interfacial tension sets both the capillary fluctuations of the interface and the rate of Ostwald ripening. We show that these phe…
Extracting maximum power from active colloidal heat engines
D. Martin, C. Nardini, M. E. Cates +1
Colloidal heat engines extract power out of a fluctuating bath by manipulating a confined tracer. Considering a self-propelled tracer surrounded by a bath of passive colloids, we o…