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What exactly is 'active matter'?

Michael te Vrugt, Benno Liebchen, Michael E. Cates

As the study of active matter has developed into one of the most rapidly growing subfields of condensed matter physics, more and more kinds of physical systems have been included i…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Hyperuniformity at the Absorbing State Transition: Perturbative RG for Random Organization

Xiao Ma, Johannes Pausch, Gunnar Pruessner +1

Hyperuniformity, where the static structure factor obeys with , emerges at criticality in systems having multiple, symmetry-unrelated, absorbing states. Import…

cond-mat.soft2025

Wetting and Pattern Formation in Non-Reciprocal Ternary Phase Separation

Xiao Ma, Michael E. Cates

Non-reciprocal interactions are among the simplest mechanisms that drive a physical system out of thermal equilibrium, leading to novel phenomena such as oscillatory pattern format…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Hamiltonian Heat Baths, Coarse-Graining and Irreversibility: A Microscopic Dynamical Entropy from Classical Mechanics

Mingnan Ding, Michael E. Cates

The Hamiltonian evolution of an isolated classical system is reversible, yet the second law of thermodynamics states that its entropy can only increase. This has confounded attempt…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Geometric theory of (extended) time-reversal symmetries in stochastic processes -- Part II: field theory

Jérémy O'Byrne, Michael E. Cates

In this article, we study the time-reversal properties of a generic Markovian stochastic field dynamics with Gaussian noise. We introduce a convenient functional geometric formalis…