Heating leads to liquid-crystal and crystalline order in a two-temperature active fluid of rods

Jayeeta Chattopadhyay, Sindhana Selvi Pannir Sivajothi, Kaarthik Varma +3

We report phase separation and liquid-crystal ordering induced by scalar activity in a system of Soft Repulsive Spherocylinders (SRS) of aspect ratio $L/D=5$. Activity was intro…