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most citedEmergence of macroscopic directed motion in populations of motile colloids

1k citations

386 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

From Active to Odd to Smart Matter

Olivier Dauchot

The study of active matter has reshaped our understanding of collective states of matter far from equilibrium by proving that energy pumped into the microscopic scale leads to orde…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Dynamics of a bricklayer model: multi-walker realizations of true self-avoiding motion

A. C. Maggs

We consider a multi-walker generalization of the true self-avoiding walk: the bricklayer model. We perform stochastic simulations, and solve the partial differential equations that…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 2 cited

Molecular motion at the experimental glass transition

Romain Simon, Jean-Louis Barrat, Ludovic Berthier

We propose a novel computational strategy to study the glass transition of molecular fluids. Our approach combines the construction of simple yet realistic models with the developm…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 3 cited

Scaling the glassy dynamics of active particles: Tunable fragility and reentrance

Puneet Pareek, Peter Sollich, Saroj Kumar Nandi +1

Understanding the influence of activity on dense amorphous assemblies is crucial for biological processes such as wound healing, embryogenesis, or cancer progression. Here, we stud…

cond-mat.soft2025

Bacterial Glass Transition

Martin Maliet, Nicolas Fix-Boulier, Ludovic Berthier +1

Bacterial assemblies exhibit rich collective behaviors that control their biological functions, making them a relevant object of study from an active matter physics perspective. De…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

Collective actuation in active solids in the presence of a polarizing field: a systematic analysis of the dynamical regimes

Paul Baconnier, Vincent Démery, Olivier Dauchot

Collective actuation in active solids, the spontaneous condensation of the dynamics on a few elastic modes, takes place whenever the deformations of the structure reorient the forc…