activity
20232026
most citedEntropy production of active Brownian particles going from liquid to hexatic and solid phases

6 citations · 13 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Ordering and Defect Dynamics in Passive and Active Nematopolars

Fabio Aprile, Massimiliano Semeraro, Giuseppe Gonnella

The coexistence of polar and nematic interactions, observed in a broad range of biological and synthetic active systems, gives rise to a rich phenomenology that continues to challe…

cond-mat.soft2025

Morphology, Polarization Patterns, Compression, and Entropy Production in Phase-Separating Active Dumbbell Systems

Lucio Mauro Carenza, Claudio Basilio Caporusso, Pasquale Digregorio +3

Polar patterns and topological defects are ubiquitous in active matter. In this paper, we study a paradigmatic polar active dumbbell system through numerical simulations, to clarif…

cond-mat.soft2025

Phase Separation Kinetics in a Polar Active Field Model

Massimiliano Semeraro, Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Giuseppe Gonnella +1

A milestone of phase separation kinetics is the emergence of universal power laws governing the domain growth evolution. We investigate a phase-separating polar acti…

cond-mat.soft20251 cited

Transverse Self-Propulsion Enhances the Aggregation of Active Dumbbells

Pasquale Digregorio, Daniela Moretti, Claudio Basilio Caporusso +5

We investigate a two-dimensional system of active Brownian dumbbells using molecular dynamics simulations. In this model, each dumbbell is driven by an active force oriented perpen…

physics.bio-ph2025

Modelling transcriptional silencing and its coupling to 3D genome organisation

Massimiliano Semeraro, Giuseppe Negro, Davide Marenduzzo +1

Timely up- or down-regulation of gene expression is crucial for cellular differentiation and function. While gene upregulation via transcriptional activators has been extensively i…

cond-mat.stat-mech20241 cited

Work fluctuations for a confined Brownian particle: the role of initial conditions

Giovanni Battista Carollo, Massimiliano Semeraro, Giuseppe Gonnella +1

We study the large fluctuations of the work injected by the random force into a Brownian particle under the action of a confining harmonic potential. In particular, we compute anal…