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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 23: Active Matter 2 - organized by Carsten Beta (Potsdam), Andreas Menzel (Magdeburg) and Holger Stark (Berlin) (joint session DY/BP/CPP)

DY 23.3: Talk

Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 11:40–12:00, DYa

Predictive local field theories for interacting active Brownian spheres* — Jens Bickmann and •Raphael Wittkowski — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Center for Soft Nanoscience, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany

We present predictive local field theories for the dynamics of interacting spherical active Brownian particles in two and three spatial dimensions. Alongside the general theories, which include configurational order parameters and derivatives up to infinite order, we present reduced models that are easier to apply. We show that our theories contain popular models such as Active Model B + as special cases and that they provide explicit expressions for the coefficients occurring in these models. As further outcomes, the theories yield analytical expressions, e.g., for the density-dependent mean swimming speed and the spinodal corresponding to motility-induced phase separation of the particles. The analytical predictions are found to be in very good agreement with results of Brownian dynamics simulations and results from the literature.
*Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – WI 4170/3-1