9 papers
Nucleation and time-reversal symmetry breaking in nonconserved scalar field theories
Noah Ziethen, Michalis Chatzittofi, Michael E. Cates +1
Classical nucleation theory (CNT) describes the formation of a stable phase from a metastable one in terms of a single reaction coordinate that corresponds to the radius of a nucle…
Nonequilibrium nucleation theory for nonconserved fields: from active matter to population dynamics
Michalis Chatzittofi, Noah Ziethen, Cesare Nardini +1
Classical nucleation theory (CNT) describes the formation of a stable phase from a metastable one. In equilibrium systems, it quantifies the free-energy competition between a favor…
Self-phoretic colloids in chiral active fluids
Michalis Chatzittofi, Yuto Hosaka, Andrej Vilfan +1
Autonomous and driven transport in chiral active fluids have been shown to exhibit features that cannot be accommodated within the classical formulation of fluid mechanics, due to…
Mechanical inhibition of dissipation in a thermodynamically consistent active solid
Luca Cocconi, Michalis Chatzittofi, Ramin Golestanian
The study of active solids offers a window into the mechanics and thermodynamics of dense living matter. A key aspect of the non-equilibrium dynamics of such active systems is a me…
Dumbbell dimer dynamics in three-dimensional chiral fluids
Michalis Chatzittofi, Yuto Hosaka
We study the emergent orientational dynamics of a dumbbell dimer -- two asymmetric monomers connected by a linking spring -- in a three-dimensional chiral environment with odd visc…
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…