most citedFlocking as a second-order phase transition in self-aligning active crystals

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cond-mat.soft2025

Fluidization induced by Magnetic Interactions in Confined Active Matter

Marco Musacchio, Markus Felber, Matteo Paoluzzi +3

We investigate magnetic active matter in confined geometries using both experiments with magnetic toy robots Hexbugs and simulations of elongated magnetic active Brownian particles…

cond-mat.soft2025

Circling crystals in chiral active matter with self-alignment

Marco Musacchio, Alexander P. Antonov, Hartmut Löwen +1

We study a crystal composed of active units governed by self-alignment and chirality. The first mechanism acts as an effective torque that aligns the particle orientation with its…

cond-mat.soft2025

Active thermodynamics of inertial chiral active gases: equation of state and edge currents

Lorenzo Caprini, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi, Benno Liebchen +1

One of the most fundamental quests in the physics of active matter concerns the existence of a comprehensive theory for its macroscopic properties, i.e. an ``active thermodynamics'…

cond-mat.soft20252 cited

Flocking as a second-order phase transition in self-aligning active crystals

Marco Musacchio, Alexander P. Antonov, Hartmut Löwen +1

We study a two-dimensional crystal composed of active units governed by self-alignment. This mechanism induces a torque that aligns a particle's orientation with its velocity and l…

cond-mat.soft2025

Self-alignment and anti-self-alignment suppress motility-induced phase separation in active systems

Marco Musacchio, Alexander P. Antonov, Hartmut Löwen +1

In this article, we investigate the impact of self-alignment and anti-self-alignment on collective phenomena in dense active matter. These mechanisms correspond to effective torque…

cond-mat.soft2025

Self-sustained frictional cooling in active matter

Alexander P. Antonov, Marco Musacchio, Hartmut Löwen +1

Cooling processes in nature are typically generated by external contact with a cold reservoir or bath. According to the laws of thermodynamics, the final temperature of a system is…