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SOFT MATTER
Volume 10, Issue 34, Pages 6477-6484Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4sm00927d
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-1305184, DGE-1068780, BMMB-1334611, DMR-1352184]
- Simons Foundation
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We simulate a model of self-propelled disks with soft repulsive interactions confined to a box in two dimensions. For small rotational diffusion rates, monodisperse disks spontaneously accumulate at the walls. At low densities, interaction forces between particles are strongly inhomogeneous, and a simple model predicts how these inhomogeneities alter the equation of state. At higher densities, collective effects become important. We observe signatures of a jamming transition at a packing fraction phi similar to 0.88, which is also the jamming point for non-active athermal monodisperse disks. At this phi, the system develops a critical finite active speed necessary for wall aggregation. At packing fractions above phi similar to 0.6, the pressure decreases with increasing density, suggesting that strong interactions between particles are affecting the equation of state well below the jamming transition. A mixture of bidisperse disks segregates in the absence of any adhesion, identifying a new mechanism that could contribute to cell sorting in embryonic development.
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