Two-temperature induced phase separation (2-TIPS) has emerged as a generic non-equilibrium mechanism in scalar active systems with heterogeneous activity, where particles coupled to different thermal reservoirs spontaneously demix into dense cold and dilute hot phases. Unlike equilibrium phase separation or motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), 2-TIPS is driven solely by unequal energy injection and the resulting heat flux between particle species. This review summarizes recent advances in 2-TIPS across diverse soft-matter systems, highlighting both its universal non-equilibrium mechanisms and the emergent ordered phases arising from particle shape anisotropy, chirality, confinement, and topology. We further discuss density-dependent phase-separation kinetics and coarse-grained descriptions linking microscopic dynamics to macroscopic behavior, and outline key directions for future research.
Classical nucleation theories relying on quasi-equilibrium thermodynamics fail to capture the far-from-equilibrium structural reordering inherent to early stage condensed-cluster formation. We develop a framework that maps a continuous structural field onto a core-shell model, coupling local non-conservative reordering...
Kai-Cheng Zhu, Hai-Bin Su· Journal of Chemical Physics· 0 citations
We investigate the nonequilibrium phase-ordering kinetics of a binary mixture of uniaxial ellipsoidal particles interacting via the anisotropic Gay-Berne potential using large-scale molecular dynamics simulations. Following a temperature quench from the isotropic and homogeneous phase into the coexistence region, the s...
A. Parameshwaran, Sanjay Puri, Bhaskar Sen Gupta· 0 citations
We study the three-dimensional active Potts model (APM) on a cubic lattice with 2, 4, and 6 orientational states. The steady-state phase diagrams exhibit low-density gaseous, high-density polar liquid, and liquid--gas coexistence phases, with the phase behavior controlled by density, temperature, and propulsion speed a...
Nucleation is a key rate-limiting process in phase transition and phase separation. Recent studies highlight a significant discrepancy between experimentally measured nucleation rates and theoretical predictions, particularly when dynamic structural reordering occurs along multi-step pathways. To bridge this gap, we de...
Interfacial polymerization (IP) is fundamentally governed by the reaction-induced phase separation (RIPS), a condensed chemical process that enables the fabrication of functional polymer films, microcapsules, and nanofibers. However, IP topology evolution is highly non-equilibrium, with thermodynamic phase separation a...
We use two-dimensional phase-field simulations based on the Cahn--Hilliard description to study spinodal decomposition in N-component mixtures with N = 3, 4, 5. In particular, we consider surface-directed spinodal decomposition in which one of the coexisting phases serves as a filler particle, while the remaining compo...
Sandeep Kumar, Supriyo Ghosh· 0 citations
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