Critical active dynamics is captured by a colored-noise driven field theory

Active particles can display a critical behaviour indistinguishable from an equilibrium one. The authors numerically study an active particles system close to the motility-induced critical point, and demonstrate that a nonequilibrium coloured noise field captures the coarse-grained behaviour of the...

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Main Authors: Claudio Maggi, Nicoletta Gnan, Matteo Paoluzzi, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Andrea Crisanti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-03-01
Series:Communications Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00830-5