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cond-mat.soft2026
Emergent activity powers a path to chaos for pairs of acoustically trapped spheres
Matthew K. Gronert, Ben Cao, Ella M. King +1
Pairs of spheres sharing an acoustic trap sometimes spin intermittently despite having no self-propulsion, no obvious power source, and no symmetry-breaking mechanism, switching be…
cond-mat.soft2024
Scattered waves fuel emergent activity
Ella M. King, Mia C. Morrell, Jacqueline B. Sustiel +3
Active matter taps into external energy sources to power its own processes. Systems of passive particles ordinarily lack this capacity, but can become active if the constituent par…