Fig. 5. Coarsening dynamics and pathways for phase separation with the chromatin network.

a Time evolution of the number of clusters observed along a dynamical trajectory. b Detailed characterization of the two switching events that follow the Brownian motion-induced coalescence (b₁) and the diffusion-limited Ostwald ripening (b₂) path. The average pair-wise distance for each cluster remains relatively constant along the first path but increases significantly along the second one due to particle evaporation. c Power-law scaling of the average cluster size as a function of time.