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cond-mat.soft2026

Active embracement enables autonomous tweezing in active star polymers

Marco Musacchio, Davide Breoni, Iman Abdoli +3

The capacity for autonomous structural reconfiguration is a defining trait of living systems, yet it remains elusive in artificial active matter. Here, we report the discovery of a…

cond-mat.soft2026

Jerky Motion of Active Granular Particles

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

Abrupt transitions between rest and motion can render the standard Newtonian description -- based on position, velocity, and acceleration -- incomplete, requiring higher-order deri…

cond-mat.soft2026

Magnetic active matter across scales

Francisca Guzmán-Lastra, Margaret Rosenberg, Marco Musacchio +2

Magnetic interactions provide a versatile and powerful tool for controlling and organizing active matter, where individual units continuously consume energy to drive autonomous mot…

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'…