# Aspects of the density field in an active nematic

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Authors: Shradha Mishra, Sanjay Puri, Sriram Ramaswamy

Published: 2014-10-21T09:34:58.000Z

## Abstract

Active nematics are conceptually the simplest orientationally ordered phase of self-driven particles, but have proved to be a perennial source of surprises. We show here through numerical solution of coarse-grained equations for order parameter and density that the growth of the active nematic phase from the isotropic phase is necessarily accompanied by a clumping of the density. The growth kinetics of the density domains is shown to be faster than the 1/3-law expected for variables governed by a conservation law. Other results presented include the suppression of density fluctuations in the stationary ordered nematic by the imposition of an orienting field. We close by posing some open questions.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5589>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5589.pdf>)