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Spatial distributions of non-conservatively interacting particles

Certain types of active systems can be treated as an equilibrium system with excess non-conservative forces driving some of the microscopic degrees of freedom. We derive results for how many particles interacting with each other with both conservative and non-conservative forces will behave. Treating non-conservative forces perturbatevily, we show how the probability distribution of the microscopic degrees of freedom is modified from the Boltzmann distribution. We compare the perturbative expansion to an exactly solvable non-conservative system. We then derive approximate forms of this distribution through analyzing the nature of our perturbations. Finally, we consider how the approximate forms for the microscopic distributions we have derived lead to different macroscopic states when coarse grained, and compare it qualitatively to simulation of non-conservatively interacting particles. In particular we note by introducing non-conservative interactions between particles we modify densities through extra terms which couple to surfaces