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Fluctuating chemically active droplets
Guido L. A. Kusters, Noah Ziethen, Michael E. Cates +1
We study size fluctuations of chemically active droplets in the regime of weak reactions and strong phase separation. By combining a thin-interface model for the deterministic drop…
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…
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…
Coupling between Phase Separation and Geometry on a Closed Elastic Curve: Free Energy Minimization and Dynamics
Hanchun Wang, Ronojoy Adhikari, Michael E. Cates
We study the free energy and dynamics of a closed elastic filament (a one-dimensional curve in two dimensions) coupled to a scalar concentration field representing, for example, an…
Nonreciprocal dynamics with weak noise: aperiodic "Escher cycles" and their quasipotential landscape
Janik Schüttler, Robert L. Jack, Michael E. Cates
We present an explicit construction of the Freidlin-Wentzell quasipotential of a stochastic system with two degrees of freedom and nonreciprocal interactions. This model undergoes…
Non-equilibrium pathways between cluster morphologies in active phase separation: necking, rupture and cavitation
Liheng Yao, Michael E. Cates, Robert L. Jack
We investigate the dynamical pathways of a morphological transition in a two-dimensional active lattice gas undergoing motility-induced phase separation. The transition is between…