collaborators

5 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

An agitated oscillator chain

Aaron Beyen, Christian Maes, Ion Santra

We study how the stationary dynamics of an oscillator chain is modified when coupled to a bath of run-and-tumble particles. First, assuming time-scale separation, we derive the ind…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Negative Differential Heat Conductivity in a Harmonic Chain Coupled to a Particle Reservoir

Simon Krekels, Christian Maes, Ion Santra +1

When coupling thermal baths at different temperatures, negative differential thermal conductivity is typically attributed to nonlinear interactions in the connecting medium. In thi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Relaxation to nonequilibrium

Christian Maes, Karel Netočný

We describe the structure of relaxation for a steadily driven macroscopic body. The time-evolution is characterized as the zero-cost flow for a nonequilibrium and nonlinear extensi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Transfer of active motion from medium to probe via the induced friction and noise

Ji-Hui Pei, Christian Maes

Can activity be transmitted from smaller to larger scales? We report on such a transfer from a homogeneous active medium to a Newtonian spherical probe. The active medium consists…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Coupling an elastic string to an active bath: the emergence of inverse damping

Aaron Beyen, Christian Maes, Ji-Hui Pei

We consider a slow elastic string with Klein-Gordon dynamics coupled to a bath of run-and-tumble particles. We derive and solve the induced Langevin-Klein-Gordon string dynamics wi…