Active Hard Spheres in Infinitely Many Dimensions

Few equilibrium - even less so nonequilibrium - statistical-mechanical models with continuous degrees of freedom can be solved exactly. Classical hard spheres in infinitely many space dimensions are a notable exception. We show that, even without resorting to a Boltzmann distribution, dimensionality...

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Autores: Arnoulx De Pirey, Thibaut, Lozano, Gustavo Sergio, Van Wijland, Frédéric
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/182466
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/182466
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:active matter
hard spheres
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Sumario:Few equilibrium - even less so nonequilibrium - statistical-mechanical models with continuous degrees of freedom can be solved exactly. Classical hard spheres in infinitely many space dimensions are a notable exception. We show that, even without resorting to a Boltzmann distribution, dimensionality is a powerful organizing device for exploring the stationary properties of active hard spheres evolving far from equilibrium. In infinite dimensions, we exactly compute the stationary state properties that govern and characterize the collective behavior of active hard spheres: the structure factor and the equation of state for the pressure. In turn, this allows us to account for motility-induced phase separation. Finally, we determine the crowding density at which the effective propulsion of a particle vanishes.