activity
20162026
most citedPlay. Pause. Rewind. Measuring local entropy production and extractable work in active matter

74 citations · 282 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

18 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Diffusion with conserved marginal distributions and information theory in fracton hydrodynamics

Vaibhav Mohanty, Sunghan Ro

Diffusion with multipole-moment conservation gives rise to transport laws that generalize Fick's law and has attracted growing attention following experimental advances in strongly…

cond-mat.soft2026

How Continuous Symmetry Stabilizes the Ordered Phase of Polar Flocks

Omer Granek, Hugues Chaté, Yariv Kafri +3

We study the stability of the ordered phase of compressible polar flocks against the nucleation of counter-propagating droplets, using a combination of analytical theory, microscop…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Exceptions to the Ratchet Principle in active and passive stochastic dynamics

Jessica Metzger, Sunghan Ro, Julien Tailleur

The "ratchet principle" asserts that non-equilibrium systems which violate parity symmetry generically exhibit steady-state currents. As recently shown, there are exceptions to thi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 1 cited

Statistical mechanics of a cold tracer in a hot bath

Amer Al-Hiyasat, Sunghan Ro, Julien Tailleur

We study the dynamics of a zero-temperature particle interacting linearly with a bath of hot Brownian particles. Starting with the most general model of a linearly-coupled bath, we…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 2 cited

A Cold Tracer in a Hot Bath: In and Out of Equilibrium

Amer Al-Hiyasat, Sunghan Ro, Julien Tailleur

We study the dynamics of a zero-temperature overdamped tracer in a bath of Brownian particles. As the bath density is increased, numerical simulations show the tracer to transition…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Revisiting the Ratchet Principle: When Hidden Symmetries Prevent Steady Currents

Jessica Metzger, Sunghan Ro, Julien Tailleur

The "ratchet principle", which states that non-equilibrium systems violating parity symmetry generically exhibit steady-state currents, is one of the few generic results outside th…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 27 cited

Inclusions, Boundaries and Disorder in Scalar Active Matter

Omer Granek, Yariv Kafri, Mehran Kardar +3

Active systems are driven out of equilibrium by exchanging energy and momentum with their environment. This endows them with anomalous mechanical properties that we review in this…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 22 cited

Metastability of Discrete-Symmetry Flocks

Brieuc Benvegnen, Omer Granek, Sunghan Ro +6

We study the stability of the ordered phase of flocking models with a scalar order parameter. Using both the active Ising model and a hydrodynamic description, we show that droplet…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 9 cited

Defect turbulence in a dense suspension of polar, active swimmers

Navdeep Rana, Rayan Chatterjee, Sunghan Ro +3

We study the effects of inertia in dense suspensions of polar swimmers. The hydrodynamic velocity field and the polar order parameter field describe the dynamics of the suspension.…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 4 cited

Scaling and localization in multipole-conserving diffusion

Jung Hoon Han, Ethan Lake, Sunghan Ro

We study diffusion in systems of classical particles whose dynamics conserves the total center of mass. This conservation law leads to several interesting consequences. In finite s…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 5 cited

Target Searches of Interacting Brownian Particles

Sunghan Ro, Juyeon Yi, Yong Woon Kim

We study the target search of interacting Brownian particles in a finite domain, focusing on the effect of inter-particle interactions on the search time. We derive the integral eq…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022

Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory and Current Fluctuations in Active Lattice Gases

Tal Agranov, Sunghan Ro, Yariv Kafri +1

We study the current large deviations for a lattice model of interacting active particles displaying a motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). To do this, we first derive the exa…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 4 cited

Optimal Searcher Distribution for Parallel Random Target Searches

Sunghan Ro, Yong Woon Kim

We consider a problem of finding a target located in a finite -dimensional domain, using independent random walkers, when partial information on the target location is given…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 35 cited

Disordered boundaries destroy bulk phase separation in scalar active matter

Ydan Ben Dor, Sunghan Ro, Yariv Kafri +2

We show that disordered boundaries destroy bulk phase separation in scalar active systems in dimension . This is in strong contrast with the equilibrium case where boundar…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 74 cited

Play. Pause. Rewind. Measuring local entropy production and extractable work in active matter

Sunghan Ro, Buming Guo, Aaron Shih +5

Time-reversal symmetry breaking and entropy production are universal features of nonequilibrium phenomena. Despite its importance in the physics of active and living systems, the e…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 37 cited

Exact fluctuating hydrodynamics of active lattice gases -- Typical fluctuations

Tal Agranov, Sunghan Ro, Yariv Kafri +1

We extend recent results on the exact hydrodynamics of a system of diffusive active particles displaying a motility-induced phase separation to account for typical fluctuations of…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 43 cited

Disorder-Induced Long-Ranged Correlations in Scalar Active Matter

Sunghan Ro, Yariv Kafri, Mehran Kardar +1

We study the impact of a random quenched potentials and torques on scalar active matter. Microscopic simulations reveal that motility-induced phase separation is replaced in two-di…

cond-mat.soft2016★ 19 cited

Chiral Separation by Flows: The Role of Flow Symmetry and Dimensionality

Sunghan Ro, Juyeon Yi, Yong Woon Kim

Separation of enantiomers by flows is a promising chiral resolution method using cost-effective microfluidics. Notwithstanding a number of experimental and numerical studies, a fun…