3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Order by inertia in spinning active matter: holey fluids and spin-textured crystals
Camille Jorge, Denis Bartolo
Active matter sustains emergent flows at the expense of preserving structural order. The feedback between structure and viscous flows typically disrupts crystalline and liquid-crys…
cond-mat.soft2026
Phase coherence and disorder-induced wave propagation in micromotor arrays
Romane Braun, Alexis Poncet, Alexandre Morin +1
Machines are designed, assembled, and programmed to convert power into predetermined dynamics and functions. In contrast, living systems such as interacting cells and animal groups…
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Synthetic Quorum Sensing and Absorbing Phase Transitions in Colloidal Active Matter
Thibault Lefranc, Alberto Dinelli, Carla Fernández-Rico +3
Unlike biological active matter that constantly adapt to their environment, the motors of synthetic active particles are typically agnostic to their surroundings and merely operate…