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cond-mat.soft2025

Delayed Active Swimmer in a Velocity Landscape

Viktor Holubec, Alexander Fischer, Giovanni Volpe +1

Self-propelled active particles exhibit delayed responses to environmental changes, modulating their propulsion speed through intrinsic sensing and feedback mechanisms. This adapti…

cond-mat.soft2024

Thermofluidic non-equilibrium assembly of reconfigurable functional structures

Desmond J. Quinn, Diptabrata Paul, Frank Cichos

Non-equilibrium assembly, driven by fluxes controllable by continuous external energy inputs, enables dynamic and reconfigurable structures. Such controlled 3D assembly is desired…

cond-mat.soft2024

Regulated polarization of active particles in local osmotic flow fields

Lisa Rohde, Desmond J. Quinn, Diptabrata Paul +1

Regulation to a well-defined target state is a fundamental requirement for achieving reliable functionality in living systems and maintaining specific non-equilibrium states. The c…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 36 cited

The 2024 Motile Active Matter Roadmap

Gerhard Gompper, Howard A. Stone, Christina Kurzthaler +29

Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental aspects of many living and engineering systems. Here, the scale of biological agents covers a wide range, from nanomotors, cytoskelet…

cond-mat.soft2024

Run-and-tumble motion of ellipsoidal microswimmers

Gordei Anchutkin, Viktor Holubec, Frank Cichos

A hallmark of bacteria is their so-called "run-and-tumble" motion, consisting of a sequence of linear directed "runs" and random rotations that constantly alternate due to biochemi…

cond-mat.soft2023

Harnessing Synthetic Active Particles for Physical Reservoir Computing

Xiangzun Wang, Frank Cichos

The processing of information is an indispensable property of living systems realized by networks of active processes with enormous complexity. They have inspired many variants of…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 10 cited

Active particles with delayed attractions form quaking crystallites

Pin-Chuan Chen, Klaus Kroy, Frank Cichos +2

Perception-reaction delays have experimentally been found to cause a spontaneous circling of microswimmers around a targeted center. Here we investigate the many-body version of th…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 45 cited

Spontaneous vortex formation by microswimmers with retarded attractions

Xiangzun Wang, Pin-Chuan Chen, Klaus Kroy +2

Collective states of inanimate particles self-assemble through physical interactions and thermal motion. Despite some phenomenological resemblance, including signatures of critical…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 112 cited

Hydrodynamic Manipulation of Nano-Objects by Thermo-Osmotic Flows

Martin Fränzl, Frank Cichos

The manipulation of micro- and nano-objects is of great technological significance to construct new materials, manipulate tiny amounts of liquids in fluidic systems, or detect minu…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 41 cited

Finite-size scaling at the edge of disorder in a time-delay Vicsek model

Viktor Holubec, Daniel Geiss, Sarah A. M. Loos +2

Living many-body systems often exhibit scale-free collective behavior reminiscent of thermal critical phenomena. But their mutual interactions are inevitably retarded due to inform…

cond-mat.soft2021

Thermotaxis of Janus Particles

Sven Auschra, Andreas Bregulla, Klaus Kroy +1

The interactions of autonomous microswimmers play an important role for the formation of collective states of motile active matter. We study them in detail for the common microswim…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 26 cited

Polarization-Density Patterns of Active Particles in Motility Gradients

Sven Auschra, Viktor Holubec, Nicola Andreas Söker +2

The co-localization of density modulations and particle polarization is a characteristic emergent feature of motile active matter in activity gradients. It can therefore play the r…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 44 cited

Active-Particle Polarization Without Alignment Forces

Nicola Andreas Söker, Sven Auschra, Viktor Holubec +2

Active-particle suspensions exhibit distinct polarization-density patterns in activity landscapes, even without anisotropic particle interactions. Such polarization without alignme…

cond-mat.soft2020

Convolutional Neural Networks for Real-Time Localization and Classification in Feedback Digital Microscopy

Martin Fränzl, Frank Cichos

We present an adapted single-shot convolutional neural network (YOLOv2) for the real-time localization and classification of particles in optical microscopy. As compared to previou…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 494 cited

The 2019 Motile Active Matter Roadmap

Gerhard Gompper, Roland G. Winkler, Thomas Speck +34

Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental in living and engineering systems. This has stimulated the new field of active matter in recent years, which focuses on the physical…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 62 cited

Hot Microswimmers

Klaus Kroy, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Frank Cichos

Hot microswimmers are self-propelled Brownian particles that exploit local heating for their directed self-thermophoretic motion. We provide a pedagogical overview of the key physi…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 14 cited

Reinforcement Learning of Artificial Microswimmers

Santiago Muiños-Landin, Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, Frank Cichos

The behavior of living systems is based on the experience they gained through their interactions with the environment [1]. This experience is stored in the complex biochemical netw…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 134 cited

Active Particles Bound by Information Flows

Utsab Khadka, Viktor Holubec, Haw Yang +1

Self-organization is the generation of order out of local interactions in non-equilibrium [1]. It is deeply connected to all fields of science from physics, chemistry to biology wh…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 70 cited

Microscopic Engine Powered by Critical Demixing

Falko Schmidt, Alessandro Magazzu, Agnese Callegari +3

By converting energy into mechanical work, engines play a central role in most biological and technological processes. In particular, within the current trend towards the developme…

cond-mat.soft2016★ 55 cited

Trapping of Single Nano-Objects in Dynamic Temperature Fields

Marco Braun, Alois Würger, Frank Cichos

In this article we explore the dynamics of a Brownian particle in a feedback-free dynamic thermophoretic trap. The trap contains a focused laser beam heating a circular gold struct…

cond-mat.soft2011★ 42 cited

Generalised Einstein Relation for Hot Brownian Motion

D. Chakraborty, M. V. Gnann, D. Rings +4

The Brownian motion of a hot nanoparticle is described by an effective Markov theory based on fluctuating hydrodynamics. Its predictions are scrutinized over a wide temperature ran…