Nonequilibrium strongly hyperuniform fluids of circle active particles with large local density fluctuations

Qun Li Lei, Massimo Pica Ciamarra*, Ran Ni

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Abstract

Disordered hyperuniform structures are an exotic state of matter having vanishing long-wavelength density fluctuations similar to perfect crystals but without long-range order. Although its importance in materials science has been brought to the fore in past decades, the rational design of experimentally realizable disordered strongly hyperuniform microstructures remains challenging. Here we find a new type of nonequilibrium fluid with strong hyperuniformity in two-dimensional systems of chiral active particles, where particles perform independent circular motions of the radius R with the same handedness. This new hyperuniform fluid features a special length scale, i.e., the diameter of the circular trajectory of particles, below which large density fluctuations are observed. By developing a dynamic mean-field theory, we show that the large local density fluctuations can be explained as a motility-induced microphase separation, while the Fickian diffusion at large length scales and local center-of-mass-conserved noises are responsible for the global hyperuniformity.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbereaau7423
JournalScience advances
Volume5
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 25 2019
Externally publishedYes

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