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most citedEnhancing (quasi-)long-range order in a two-dimensional driven crystal

17 citations · 77 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Metastability and nucleation of bubbles in active chiral systems

Raphael Maire, Alessandro Petrini, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi +1

Bubbles frequently emerge in dense chiral active fluids, yet it remains unclear whether they result from an instability of the homogeneous state or from rare nucleation events with…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Phase Separation in Fractonic Fluids: Coarsening, Interfaces, Nucleation, and Hyperuniformity in and out of Equilibrium

Raphael Maire

We develop a theory of phase separation in fluids conserving higher-order multipole moments of a scalar density, and investigate the resulting coarsening dynamics, nucleation, and…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Topology of Fluctuation Bands in Chiral Active Crystals

Raphaël Maire

While band topology is usually associated with the deterministic dynamics of a system, we show that it can instead reside in its fluctuations. Using a reciprocal lattice driven by…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Kinetic and Hydrodynamic Theories of Chiral Intruder Dynamics in Nonequilibrium Baths

Raphaël Maire, Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We study the chiral dynamics of an intruder immersed in a nonequilibrium bath in two complementary limits: the dilute kinetic regime and the dense hydrodynamic regime. In the dilut…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Chiral Dynamics of an Intruder across Dilute and Hydrodynamic Regimes

Raphaël Maire, Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We introduce and simulate an analytically tractable model for an intruder of arbitrary shape in a nonequilibrium bath, with chirality originating from the bath, the intruder, or th…

cond-mat.soft2026

Curvature-driven wall accumulation in chiral active particles

Alessandro Petrini, Raphaël Maire, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi +1

We study a dilute system of non-motile chiral active particles confined in geometries ranging from straight channels to circular enclosures. Activity is introduced through chiral p…

cond-mat.soft2026

Sparkling bubbles in chiral active fluids

Alessandro Petrini, Raphaël Maire, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi +1

We study an inertial chiral active fluid, formed by repulsive particles that transfer angular momentum through odd interactions, i.e. transverse forces. Chirality induces an inhomo…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Kinetic Theory of Chiral Active Disks: Odd Transport and Torque Density

Raphael Maire, Alessandro Petrini, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi +1

Parity-odd transport is a central signature of chiral fluids, yet analytical predictions are sparse. Here, we introduce a minimal two-dimensional hard-disk gas in which chirality a…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Hyperuniformity in active fluids reshapes nucleation and capillary-wave dynamics

Raphaël Maire

While nucleation in typical active and driven fluids often appears equilibrium-like, striking departures emerge when large-scale fluctuations are strongly suppressed. Here, we inve…

cond-mat.soft2026

Emergent hydrodynamics of chiral active fluids: vortices, bubbles and odd diffusion

Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi, Alessandro Petrini, Raphaël Maire +1

Starting from a microscopic multiparticle Langevin equation, we systematically derive a hydrodynamic description in terms of density and momentum fields for chiral active particles…

cond-mat.soft2026

Self-assembly of quasicrystals under cyclic shear

Raphaël Maire, Andrea Plati, Frank Smallenburg +1

We investigate the self-assembly of two-dimensional dodecagonal quasicrystals driven by cyclic shear, effectively replacing thermal fluctuations with plastic rearrangements. Using…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 1 cited

Conservation laws and slow dynamics determine the universality class of interfaces in active matter

Raphaël Maire, Andrea Plati, Frank Smallenburg +1

While equilibrium interfaces display universal large-scale statistics, interfaces in phase-separated active and driven systems are predicted to belong to distinct non-equilibrium u…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 12 cited

Hyperuniformity and conservation laws in non-equilibrium systems

Raphaël Maire, Ludivine Chaix

We demonstrate that hyperuniformity, the suppression of density fluctuations at large length scales, emerges generically from the interplay between conservation laws and non-equili…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 6 cited

Dynamical and structural properties of an absorbing phase transition: a case study from granular systems

Raphael Maire, Andrea Plati, Frank Smallenburg +1

We investigate the dynamical and structural properties of absorbing phase transitions (APTs) within granular systems. Specifically, we examine a model for vibrofluidized systems of…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 9 cited

Hyperuniform interfaces in non-equilibrium phase coexistence

Raphaël Maire, Leonardo Galliano, Andrea Plati +1

We show that long-wavelength interfacial fluctuations are strongly suppressed in non-equilibrium phase coexistence between bulk hyperuniform systems. Using simulations of three dis…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 9 cited

Non-equilibrium coexistence between a fluid and a hotter or colder crystal of granular hard disks

R. Maire, A. Plati, F. Smallenburg +1

Non-equilibrium phase coexistence is commonly observed in both biological and artificial systems, yet understanding it remains a significant challenge. Unlike equilibrium systems,…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 7 cited

Self-assembly and non-equilibrium phase coexistence in a binary granular mixture

A. Plati, R. Maire, F. Boulogne +3

We report the experimental observation of a square crystalline phase in a vibrated binary mixture of spherical grains. This structure spontaneously forms from a disordered state, c…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 17 cited

Enhancing (quasi-)long-range order in a two-dimensional driven crystal

R. Maire, A. Plati

It has been recently shown that 2D systems can exhibit crystalline phases with long-range translational order showcasing a striking violation of the Hohenberg-Mermin-Wagner (HMW) t…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 16 cited

Interplay between an absorbing phase transition and synchronization in a driven granular system

R. Maire, A. Plati, M. Stockinger +3

Absorbing phase transitions (APTs) are widespread in non-equilibrium systems, spanning condensed matter, epidemics, earthquakes, ecology, and chemical reactions. APTs feature an ab…