  We report phase separation and liquid-crystal ordering induced by scalar
activity in a system of Soft Repulsive Spherocylinders (SRS) of aspect ratio
$L/D = 5 $. Activity was introduced by increasing the temperature of half of
the SRS (labeled \textit{`hot'}) while maintaining the temperature of the other
half constant at a lower value (labeled \textit{`cold'}). The difference
between the two temperatures scaled by the lower temperature provides a measure
of the activity. Starting from different equilibrium initial phases, we find
that activity leads to segregation of the hot and cold particles. Activity also
drives the cold particles through a phase transition to a more ordered state
and the hot particles to a state of less order compared to the initial
equilibrium state. The cold components of a homogeneous isotropic (I) structure
acquire nematic (N) and, at higher activity, crystalline (K) order. Similarly,
the cold zone of a nematic initial state undergoes smectic (Sm) and crystal
ordering above a critical value of activity while the hot component turns
isotropic. We find that the hot particles occupy a larger volume and exert an
extra kinetic pressure, confining, compressing and provoking an ordering
transition of the cold-particle domains.
