Statistical mechanics and hydrodynamics of self-propelled hard spheres

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AA5ED1MaRDI QIDQ3302985zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benjamin Hancock, Aparna Baskaran

Publication date 11 August 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03450

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40)

Abstract: Starting from a microscopic model of self-propelled hard spheres we use tools of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and the kinetic theory of hard spheres to derive a Smoluchowski equation for interacting Active Brownian particles. We illustrate the utility of the statistical mechanics framework developed with two applications. First, we derive the steady state pressure of the hard sphere active fluid in terms of the microscopic parameters and second, we identify the critical density for the onset of motility-induced phase separation in this system. We show that both these quantities agree well with overdamped simulations of active Brownian particles with excluded volume interactions given by steeply repulsive potentials. The results presented here can be used to incorporate excluded volume effects in diverse models of self-propelled particles.

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