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cond-mat.soft2023
Quasi long-ranged order in two-dimensional active liquid crystals
Livio Nicola Carenza, Josep-Maria Armengol-Collado, Dimitrios Krommydas +1
Quasi-long ranged order is the hallmark of two-dimensional liquid crystals. At equilibrium, this property implies that the correlation function of the local orientational order par…
cond-mat.soft2023
Collective epithelial migration mediated by the unbinding of hexatic defects
Dimitrios Krommydas, Livio Nicola Carenza, Luca Giomi
Collective cell migration in epithelia relies on cell intercalation: a local remodelling of the cellular network that allows neighbouring cells to swap their positions. Unlike foam…