  We propose a model for demixing of two species by assuming a
density-dependent effective diffusion coefficient of the particles. Both sorts
of microswimmers diffuse as active overdamped Brownian particles with a noise
intensity that is determined by the surrounding density of the respective other
species within a sensing radius $r_s$. A higher concentration of the first
(second) sort will enlarge the diffusion and, in consequence, the intensity of
the noise experienced by the second (first) sort. Numerical and analytical
investigations of steady states of the macroscopic equations prove the demixing
of particles due to this reciprocally concentration-dependent diffusivity. An
ambiguity of the numerical integration scheme for the purely local model
($r_s\to 0$) is resolved by considering nonvanishing sensing radii in a
nonlocal model with $r_s > 0$.

Biological Physics;Soft Condensed Matter;Statistical Mechanics;Populations and Evolution