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20182026
most citedExtracting maximum power from active colloidal heat engines

39 citations · 47 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Collective order reorganizes dissipation and powers an active engine

Michael Riedl, Vincent Wattiez, Étienne Fodor +2

Motile active matter systems, from animal groups to synthetic particles, exhibit spontaneous self-organized transitions between disordered and ordered collective states. These tran…

cond-mat.soft2026

Active pistons extract work by periodic compression alone

Paul Bernard, Euijoon Kwon, Benjamin Buhl +2

Active matter is liable to invent protocols that evade the constraints of equilibrium thermodynamics. We put forward active pistons that extract work by periodic compression alone…

cond-mat.soft2026

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…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 8 cited

Quantifying dissipation in flocking dynamics: When tracking internal states matters

Karel Proesmans, Gianmaria Falasco, Atul Tanaji Mohite +2

Aligning self-propelled particles undergo a nonequilibrium flocking transition from apolar to polar phases as their interactions become stronger. We propose a thermodynamically con…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018★ 39 cited

Extracting maximum power from active colloidal heat engines

D. Martin, C. Nardini, M. E. Cates +1

Colloidal heat engines extract power out of a fluctuating bath by manipulating a confined tracer. Considering a self-propelled tracer surrounded by a bath of passive colloids, we o…