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Activity-induced isotropic-polar transition in active liquid crystals

M. Giordano,F. Bonelli,L. Carenza,G. Gonnella,G. Negro

Published 2020 in Europhysics Letters

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Active fluids are intrinsically out-of-equilibrium systems due to the internal energy injection of the active constituents. We show here that a transition from a motion-less isotropic state towards a flowing polar one can be possibly driven by the sole active injection through the action of polar-hydrodynamic interactions in absence of an ad hoc free energy which favors the development of an ordered phase. In particular, we propose an analytical argument and we perform lattice Boltzmann simulations where the appearance of large temporal fluctuations in the polar fraction of the system is observed at the transition point. We show that elastic absorption plays a relevant role in energy transfer dynamics, contrary to the case of the usual active gel theory where this term can be factually neglected.

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