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9 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Partial Entropy production of active particles with hidden states in potentials

Jacob Knight, Gunnar Pruessner

Partially observed stochastic systems can appear (almost) time-reversal symmetric while in fact operating far from equilibrium. The present work extends the perturbative framework…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Microscopic theory of soft run-and-tumble particles

Rosalba Garcia-Millan, Ziluo Zhang, Luca Cocconi +4

Soft, repulsive run-and-tumble particles display emergent effective interactions as they appear to stick to each other in spite of the absence of attractive forces. This effective…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Effective attraction by repulsion

Rosalba Garcia-Millan, Luca Cocconi, Ziluo Zhang +4

Repulsive self-propelled particles tend to cluster, leading to Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). By analogy with equilibrium phase separation, the onset of MIPS has been as…

cond-mat.soft2025

Exact results and instabilities in the harmonic approximation of active crystals

Connor Roberts, Gunnar Pruessner

Condensates of active particles such as cells form almost-crystalline lattices which play a central role in many biological systems. Typically, their properties have been determine…

math-ph2025

Conditional splitting probabilities for hidden-state inference in drift-diffusive processes

Emir Sezik, Jacob Knight, Henry Alston +4

Splitting probabilities quantify the likelihood of particular outcomes out of a set of mutually-exclusive possibilities for stochastic processes and play a central role in first-pa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Stochastic cloaking: concealing a region from diffusive particles

Connor Roberts, Ziluo Zhang, Helder Rojas +4

We introduce "stochastic cloaking," where a region of space is concealed from an ensemble of diffusing particles whose individual trajectories are governed by a stochastic (Langevi…