activity
20082025
most citedA basic swimmer at low Reynolds number

174 citations · 454 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cond-mat.soft2025

Macroscopic active matter under confinement: dynamical heterogeneity, bursts, and glassy behavior in a few-body system of self-propelling camphor surfers

Marco Leoni, Matteo Paoluzzi, Christian Alistair Dumaup +5

We study a few-body system composed of self-propelling camphor surfers confined within a circular boundary. These millimeter-sized particles move in a regime where inertia and long…

cond-mat.soft2020

Surfing and crawling macroscopic active particles under strong confinement -- inertial dynamics

Marco Leoni, Matteo Paoluzzi, Sarah Eldeen +5

We study two types of active (self-propelled) macroscopic particles under confinement: camphor surfers and hexbug crawlers, using a combined experimental, theoretical, and numerica…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 29 cited

Information and motility exchange in collectives of active particles

Matteo Paoluzzi, Marco Leoni, M Cristina Marchetti

We examine the interplay of motility and information exchange in a model of run-and-tumble active particles where the particle's motility is encoded as a bit of information that ca…

cond-mat.soft2019

Cell motility, synchronization, and cell traction orientational order

M. Leoni

Suspensions of swimming micro-organisms provide examples of coordinated active dynamics. That has stimulated the study of a phenomenological theory combining synchronization and po…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 27 cited

Fractal aggregation of active particles

Matteo Paoluzzi, Marco Leoni, M Cristina Marchetti

We study active run-and-tumble particles with an additional two-state internal variable characterizing their motile or non-motile state. Motile particles change irreversibly into n…

cond-mat.stat-mech2017★ 54 cited

How many dissenters does it take to disorder a flock?

D. Yllanes, M. Leoni, M. C. Marchetti

We consider the effect of introducing a small number of non-aligning agents in a well-formed flock. To this end, we modify a minimal model of active Brownian particles with purely…