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Europhysics Letters, 2022 Chiral active matter comprises particles which can self-propel and self-rotate. Examples range from sperm cells and bacteria near walls to autophoretic L-shaped colloids. In this perspective article we focus on recent developments in chiral active matter.
Benno Liebchen, D. Levis
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Pulsating Active Matter. [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2022 We reveal that the mechanical pulsation of locally synchronized particles is a generic route to propagate deformation waves. We consider a model of dense repulsive particles whose activity drives periodic change in size of each individual.
Yiwei Zhang, É. Fodor
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Learning protocols for the fast and efficient control of active matter. [PDF]
Nat CommunExact analytic calculation shows that optimal control protocols for passive molecular systems often involve rapid variations and discontinuities. However, similar analytic baselines are not generally available for active-matter systems, because it is ...
Casert C, Whitelam S.
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Learning hydrodynamic equations for active matter from particle simulations and experiments. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Significance Active systems, from self-propelled colloids to animal swarms, can form complex dynamical patterns as their microscopic constituents exchange energy and momentum with the environment.
Supekar R +5 more
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Geometrical control of interface patterning underlies active matter invasion. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Significance Biological active matter consisting of living cells often invades the surrounding space via activity-induced boundary deformation or interface growth. Examples include tumor invasion and bacterial colony expansion. Here, we describe a unique
Xu H, Nejad MR, Yeomans JM, Wu Y.
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Microscopic Swarms: From Active Matter Physics to Biomedical and Environmental Applications. [PDF]
Micromachines (Basel), 2022 Microscopic swarms consisting of, e.g., active colloidal particles or microorganisms, display emergent behaviors not seen in equilibrium systems. They represent an emerging field of research that generates both fundamental scientific interest and ...
Fu Y +5 more
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From a microscopic inertial active matter model to the Schrödinger equation. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2023 Active field theories are powerful tools to explain phenomena such as motility-induced phase separation. The authors report an active analogue to the quantum mechanics tunneling effect, showing similarity to the Schrödinger equation, by introducing an ...
Te Vrugt M +4 more
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Topological active matter [PDF]
Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 In active matter systems, individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces or motion at the microscale, leading to morphological features and transport properties that do not occur in equilibrium and that are robust against certain ...
Suraj Shankar +4 more
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Editorial: Motile active matter. [PDF]
Eur Phys J E Soft Matter, 2021 published
Gompper G +3 more
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Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions in Informational Active Matter [PDF]
, 2023 Many biological and synthetic systems out of equilibrium can be viewed as ratchets that rectify environmental noise through measurements and information processing, like in Maxwell's prototypical demon. These systems pose a challenge to standard approaches because they are better described in terms of decision-making protocols similar to computer ...
Bryan VanSaders +2 more
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