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20232026
most citedActive Jamming at Criticality

5 citations · 7 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Approach to Steady-State in Nested Resetting Processes

Callum Britton, Ben Le Jeune, Henry Alston +2

We characterise the approach to nonequilibrium steady state in nested resetting processes by deriving accumulation times for the system, which quantify the effective first-passage…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Persistence, resetting, and first-passage times of an active Ornstein--Uhlenbeck particle

Demosthenes K. Georgiou, Paul C. Bressloff, Thibault Bertrand

We study the first-passage time statistics of an active Ornstein--Uhlenbeck particle on a finite one-dimensional interval with an absorbing boundary at one end and a reflecting bou…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Run-and-tumble particles with preferred reorientation

Callum Britton, Ziluo Zhang, Seongjun Han +1

Run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) are canonically modeled with uniform reorientation probabilities, an assumption that breaks down for many biological microswimmers. In this work, we…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Finite-Time Optimal Control by Noisy Traps

Luca Cocconi, Henry Alston, Thibault Bertrand

The optimal control of passive systems in equilibrium typically favours quasistatic (infinite-time) protocols. We show that a breakdown of quasistatic optimality occurs when the co…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 1 cited

Controlling the Glass Transition through Active Fluctuating Interactions

Emir Sezik, Henry Alston, Thibault Bertrand

Fluctuating pairwise interactions are understood to drive fluid-like states in dense biological systems. These states find a broad range of functionalities, such as directing growt…

cond-mat.soft2025

Stochastic Forces Enhance Tracer Diffusion in Non-motile Active Matter

Henry Alston, Raphael Voituriez, Thibault Bertrand

Stochasticity is a defining feature of the pairwise forces governing interactions in biological systems-from molecular motors to cell-cell adhesion-yet its consequences on large-sc…

math-ph2025

Conditional splitting probabilities for hidden-state inference in drift-diffusive processes

Emir Sezik, Jacob Knight, Henry Alston +4

Splitting probabilities quantify the likelihood of particular outcomes out of a set of mutually-exclusive possibilities for stochastic processes and play a central role in first-pa…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Nested Stochastic Resetting: Nonequilibrium Steady-states and Exact Correlations

Henry Alston, Callum Britton, Thibault Bertrand

Stochastic resetting breaks detailed balance and drives the formation of nonequilibrium steady states . Here, we consider a chain of diffusive processes that interact unil…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

The OU process: Characterising dissipative confinement in noisy traps

Luca Cocconi, Henry Alston, Jacopo Romano +1

The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process describes the dynamics of Brownian particles in a confining harmonic potential, thereby constituting the paradigmatic model of overdamped, mean-…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 1 cited

Boosting macroscopic diffusion with local resetting

Henry Alston, Thibault Bertrand

Stochastic interactions generically enhance self-diffusivity in living and biological systems, e.g. optimizing navigation strategies and controlling material properties of cellular…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 5 cited

Active Jamming at Criticality

Shalabh K. Anand, Chiu Fan Lee, Thibault Bertrand

Jamming is ubiquitous in disordered systems, but the critical behavior of jammed solids subjected to active forces or thermal fluctuations remains elusive. In particular, while pas…