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Topology of pulsating active matter: Defect asymmetry controls emergent motility
Luca Casagrande, Alessandro Manacorda, Étienne Fodor
In pulsating active matter, topological defects are motile despite the absence of any macroscopic flows and microscopic self-propulsion. We reveal that this motility arises from a…
Collective deformation of anisotropic particles with internal pulsation
Luca Casagrande, Alessandro Manacorda, Étienne Fodor
Capturing the emergence of deformation waves in contractile living tissues is a challenge that has recently been tackled with models of actively deformable particles. Inspired by t…
Control protocols for harmonically confined run-and-tumble particles
Marco Baldovin, Alessandro Manacorda
Run-and-tumble particles constitute one of the simplest models of self-propelled active matter, and provide an ideal playground to the understanding of out-of-equilibrium systems.…
How target distributions shape optimal stochastic resetting
Gregorio García-Valladares, Antonio Prados, Alessandro Manacorda +1
We investigate the search of a target with a given spatial distribution in a finite one-dimensional domain. The searcher follows Brownian dynamics and is always reset to its initia…
Optimal Control of an Electromechanical Energy Harvester
Dario Lucente, Alessandro Manacorda, Andrea Plati +2
Many techniques originally developed in the context of deterministic control theory have been recently applied to the quest for optimal protocols in stochastic processes. Given a s…
Species interconversion of deformable particles yields transient phase separation
Yiwei Zhang, Alessandro Manacorda, Étienne Fodor
We consider a dense assembly of repulsive particles whose fluctuating sizes are subject to an energetic landscape that defines three species: two distinct states of particles with…
Diffusive oscillators capture the pulsating states of deformable particles
Alessandro Manacorda, Étienne Fodor
We study a model of diffusive oscillators whose internal states are subject to a periodic drive. These models are inspired by the dynamics of deformable particles with pulsating si…
Optimal resetting strategies for search processes in heterogeneous environments
Gregorio García-Valladares, Carlos A. Plata, Antonio Prados +1
In many physical situations, there appears the problem of reaching a single target that is spatially distributed. Here we analyse how stochastic resetting, also spatially distribut…
Introduction to the dynamics of disordered systems: equilibrium and gradient descent
Giampaolo Folena, Alessandro Manacorda, Francesco Zamponi
This manuscript contains the lecture notes of the short courses given by one of us (F.Z.) at the summer school "Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics XV", held in Brunico, It…
Gradient descent dynamics and the jamming transition in infinite dimensions
Alessandro Manacorda, Francesco Zamponi
Gradient descent dynamics in complex energy landscapes, i.e. featuring multiple minima, finds application in many different problems, from soft matter to machine learning. Here, we…
Active matter in infinite dimensions: Fokker-Planck equation and dynamical mean-field theory at low density
Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey, Alessandro Manacorda, Frédéric van Wijland +1
We investigate the behavior of self-propelled particles in infinite space dimensions by comparing two powerful approaches in many-body dynamics: the Fokker-Planck equation and dyna…
Numerical solution of the dynamical mean field theory of infinite-dimensional equilibrium liquids
Alessandro Manacorda, Grégory Schehr, Francesco Zamponi
We present a numerical solution of the dynamical mean field theory of infinite-dimensional equilibrium liquids established in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 015902 (2016)]. For soft sphere…
Lattice models for granular-like velocity fields: Hydrodynamic limit
Alessandro Manacorda, Carlos A. Plata, Antonio Lasanta +2
A recently introduced model describing -on a 1d lattice- the velocity field of a granular fluid is discussed in detail. The dynamics of the velocity field occurs through next-neigh…
Coulomb friction driving Brownian motors
Alessandro Manacorda, Andrea Puglisi, Alessandro Sarracino
We review a family of models recently introduced to describe Brownian motors under the influence of Coulomb friction, or more general non-linear friction laws. It is known that, if…