@article{ISI:000343306400004,
 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 the 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 13 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.},
 article-number = {20130364},
 author = {Mishra, Shradha and Puri, Sanjay and Ramaswamy, Sriram},
 doi = {10.1098/rsta.2013.0364},
 eissn = {1471-2962},
 issn = {1364-503X},
 journal = {PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL
AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES},
 month = {NOV 28},
 number = {2029, SI},
 title = {Aspects of the density field in an active nematic},
 unique-id = {ISI:000343306400004},
 volume = {372},
 year = {2014}
}