4 papers
Irreversibility and symmetry breaking in the creation and annihilation of defects in active living matter
Avraham Beer, Efraim Dov Neimand, Yuv Agarwal +4
Active living matter continuously creates and annihilates topological defects in a process that remains poorly understood. Here, we investigate these dynamics in two distinct activ…
Immobility of isolated swarmer cells due to local liquid depletion
Ajesh Jose, Benjamin Perez-Estay, Shira Omer Bendori +4
Bacterial swarming is a complex phenomenon in which thousands of self-propelled rod-shaped cells move coherently on surfaces, providing an excellent example of active matter. Howev…
Second Law of Thermodynamics without Einstein Relation
Benjamin Sorkin, Haim Diamant, Gil Ariel +1
Materials that are constantly driven out of thermodynamic equilibrium, such as active and living systems, typically violate the Einstein relation. This may arise from active contri…
Consistent expansion of the Langevin propagator with application to entropy production
Benjamin Sorkin, Gil Ariel, Tomer Markovich
Stochastic thermodynamics is a developing theory for systems out of thermal equilibrium. It allows to formulate a wealth of nontrivial relations among thermodynamic quantities such…