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20172026
most citedActive phase separation in mixtures of chemically interacting particles

194 citations · 1.1k across the 37 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Curvature-induced migration of small domains on lipid membranes

Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

Membrane curvature has been shown to bias the location of lipid or protein domains, but the roles of bending rigidity, spontaneous curvature, Gaussian bending modulus, and line ten…

cond-mat.soft2026

An interdimensional funnel enhances topologically protected oscillations in high-dimensional stochastic systems

Varsha Traynor, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

Biochemical systems such as protein complexes often occupy configuration spaces whose dimensionality grows with the number of molecular components. Although usually viewed as an ob…

cond-mat.soft2026

Robust Topologically Protected Edge Transport in Doubly Chiral Active Particles

Tristan Edwards, Maxim Nikolaev, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

Using theory, simulation, and experiment, we introduce a new class of active particle which we term doubly chiral active Brownian particles (dcABPs), which show robust topologicall…

physics.bio-ph2025

Spatial self-organization of enzymes in complex reaction networks

Vincent Ouazan-Reboul, Ramin Golestanian, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

Living systems contain intricate biochemical networks whose structure is closely related to their function and allows them to exhibit robust behavior in the presence of external st…

physics.bio-ph2025

Topological edge currents promote exploratory search in microtubule dynamic instability

Chongbin Zheng, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Jonathon Howard +1

Microtubules capture chromosomes during mitosis by stochastically switching between growth and shrinkage at catastrophe events. They display strikingly rich biochemistry and dynami…

physics.bio-ph2025

Nonequilibrium protein complexes as molecular automata

Jan Kocka, Kabir Husain, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

Biology stores information and computes at the molecular scale, yet the ways in which it does so are often distinct from human-engineered computers. Mapping biological computation…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 16 cited

Phase Coexistence in Nonreciprocal Quorum-Sensing Active Matter

Yu Duan, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Ramin Golestanian +1

Motility and nonreciprocity are two primary mechanisms for self-organization in active matter. In a recent study [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148301 (2023)], we explored their joint infl…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 6 cited

Mechanistic rules for de novo design of enzymes

Michalis Chatzittofi, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Ramin Golestanian

Enzymes are nano-scale machines that have evolved to drive chemical reactions out of equilibrium in the right place at the right time. Given the complexity and specificity of enzym…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 2 cited

Thermodynamic inference of correlations in nonequilibrium collective dynamics

Michalis Chatzittofi, Ramin Golestanian, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

The theory of stochastic thermodynamics has revealed many useful fluctuation relations, with the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) being a theorem of major interest. When ma…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 3 cited

Topological phases in discrete stochastic systems

Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Evelyn Tang

Topological invariants have proved useful for analyzing emergent function as they characterize a property of the entire system, and are insensitive to local details, disorder, and…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 6 cited

Nonlinear response theory of molecular machines

Michalis Chatzittofi, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Ramin Golestanian

Chemical affinities are responsible for driving active matter systems out of equilibrium. At the nano-scale, molecular machines interact with the surrounding environment and are su…

cond-mat.soft2023

Role of shape in particle-lipid membrane interactions: from surfing to full engulfment

Stijn van der Ham, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Hanumantha Rao Vutukuri

Understanding and manipulating the interactions between foreign bodies and cell membranes during endo- and phagocytosis is of paramount importance, not only for the fate of living…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 20 cited

Entropy production and thermodynamic inference for stochastic microswimmers

Michalis Chatzittofi, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Ramin Golestanian

The question of characterization of the degree of non-equilibrium activity in active matter systems is studied in the context of a stochastic microswimmer model driven by a chemica…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 3 cited

Topological phase locking in stochastic oscillators

Michalis Chatzittofi, Ramin Golestanian, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

The dynamics of many nanoscale biological and synthetic systems such as enzymes and molecular motors are activated by thermal noise, and driven out-of-equilibrium by local energy d…

cond-mat.soft2023

Enhanced diffusion of tracer particles in nonreciprocal mixtures

Anthony Benois, Marie Jardat, Vincent Dahirel +4

We study the diffusivity of a tagged particle in a binary mixture of Brownian particles with non-reciprocal interactions. Numerical simulations reveal that, for a broad class of in…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 61 cited

Dynamical pattern formation without self-attraction in quorum-sensing active matter: the interplay between nonreciprocity and motility

Yu Duan, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Ramin Golestanian +1

We study a minimal model involving two species of particles interacting via quorum-sensing rules. Combining simulations of the microscopic model and linear stability analysis of th…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 11 cited

Interaction-motif-based classification of self-organizing metabolic cycles

Vincent Ouazan-Reboul, Ramin Golestanian, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

Particles that are catalytically-active and chemotactic can interact through the concentration fields upon which they act, which in turn may lead to wide-scale spatial self-organiz…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 18 cited

Network effects lead to self-organization in metabolic cycles of self-repelling catalysts

Vincent Ouazan-Reboul, Ramin Golestanian, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

Mixtures of particles that interact through phoretic effects are known to aggregate if they belong to species that exhibit attractive self-interactions. We study self-organization…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 45 cited

Self-organization of primitive metabolic cycles due to non-reciprocal interactions

Vincent Ouazan-Reboul, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Ramin Golestanian

We study analytically and numerically a model metabolic cycle composed of an arbitrary number of species of catalytically active particles. Each species converts a substrate into a…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 11 cited

Collective synchronization of dissipatively-coupled noise-activated processes

Michalis Chatzittofi, Ramin Golestanian, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

A system of two enzymes mechanically coupled to each other in a viscous medium was recently studied, and conditions for obtaining synchronization and an enhanced average rate of th…

physics.bio-ph2022

Catalysis-Induced Phase Separation and Autoregulation of Enzymatic Activity

Matthew W. Cotton, Ramin Golestanian, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

We present a thermodynamically consistent model describing the dynamics of a multi-component mixture where one enzyme component catalyzes a reaction between other components. We fi…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 27 cited

Molecular Diffusivity of Click Reaction Components: The Diffusion Enhancement Question

Nasrollah Rezaei-Ghaleh, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Christian Griesinger +1

Micrometer-sized objects are widely known to exhibit chemically-driven motility in systems away from equilibrium. Experimental observation of reaction-induced motility or enhanceme…

physics.bio-ph2021★ 3 cited

Comment on "Relative Diffusivities of Bound and Unbound Protein Can Control Chemotactic Directionality''

Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Pierre Illien, Ramin Golestanian

This is a comment on a recently published paper in Langmuir: Mandal, N. S.; Sen, A. Relative Diffusivities of Bound and Unbound Protein Can Control Chemotactic Directionality. Lang…

cond-mat.soft2021

Dynamics of Spontaneous Wrapping of Microparticles by Floppy Lipid Membranes

Hendrik T. Spanke, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Daniel Tran +2

Lipid membranes form the barrier between the inside and outside of cells and many of their subcompartments. As such, they bind to a wide variety of nano- and micrometer sized objec…