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Microscopic theory of soft run-and-tumble particles
Rosalba Garcia-Millan, Ziluo Zhang, Luca Cocconi +4
Soft, repulsive run-and-tumble particles display emergent effective interactions as they appear to stick to each other in spite of the absence of attractive forces. This effective…
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Effective attraction by repulsion
Rosalba Garcia-Millan, Luca Cocconi, Ziluo Zhang +4
Repulsive self-propelled particles tend to cluster, leading to Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). By analogy with equilibrium phase separation, the onset of MIPS has been as…