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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.055701
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- [NSF-MRSEC-0820492]
- [NSF-DMR-1149266]
- [NSF-1066293]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1149266] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We examine a minimal model for an active colloidal fluid in the form of self-propelled Brownian spheres that interact purely through excluded volume with no aligning interaction. Using simulations and analytic modeling, we quantify the phase diagram and separation kinetics. We show that this nonequilibrium active system undergoes an analog of an equilibrium continuous phase transition, with a binodal curve beneath which the system separates into dense and dilute phases whose concentrations depend only on activity. The dense phase is a unique material that we call an active solid, which exhibits the structural signatures of a crystalline solid near the crystal-hexatic transition point, and anomalous dynamics including superdiffusive motion on intermediate time scales. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.055701
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